![]() ![]() Our pandemic so far has been paradise by comparison. The 14th century is the right shit show to compare too. This is the rare history book that is so engrossing it’s competing and winning against the Terry Pratchett I’m reading (Maskerade) for bedtime escapist relaxation. Next pandemic live read, Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror, a history of the 14th century through the life of a single minor nobleman whose life was coextensive with the main events, especially the Black Death. ![]() ![]() I have a bunch of threads on Twitter that are probably suitable for this sort of light-touch blogification. ![]() I’ve linked a selection of those to these notes.Īside: if you like this format, let me know. This is also a book that benefits from a lot of Wikipedia bunnytrailing on the side, and I found myself doing a lot of reading about characters and events mentioned in passing. I was going to try and reshape my live-tweeting into an actual longform review/summary, but people seemed to like the live/fresh feel of the livetweeting, so I decided to just clean up and post the thread here as notes, with some light editing, linking, and addition of a few post-twitter. ![]()
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