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eeeeeezy

eeeeeezy@bookwyrm.social

Joined 3 months, 4 weeks ago

Dad, husband, BJJ rest round. American in Norway. Industry worker, JD Dickinson Law, data engineering student @uiagder. Was a right-winger until I grew up.

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2025 Reading Goal

16% complete! eeeeeezy has read 3 of 18 books.

Diarmaid MacCulloch: The Reformation (Hardcover, 2003, Viking Adult)

"The Reformation and the Counter-Reformation it provoked are one of the great discontinuities in European …

Excellent, sympathetic work of history.

Offering a worthwhile critical review of historical scholarship on this level is above my pay grade, but I'll be returning to this book in the future.

John Ganz: When the Clock Broke (2024, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

An examination of conservative and reactionary influences on U.S. presidential politics in the early 1990s.

Really enjoyed this. Ganz simply shows us the social and political ferment of the early 90s, and reveals how relevant and antecedent that moment was to the eventual rise of Donald Trump. I have a little more to say about how this book makes me think about my past activity in the far right, but I'll leave that for later.

Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises (Hardcover, 2014, Scribner)

Irritating people, great writing.

I’m impressed that a book populated by such unbearable people could be so readable and wonderful. I’m possibly more impressed that Hemingway could lay bare what an obnoxious, alcohol-abusing jerk he and all his friends are and yet fail to catch his own hint, grow up, and chill out on the booze.

Peter H. Wilson, Peter H. Wilson: The Thirty Years War (2009, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)

The authoritative book on the Thirty Years' War?

I'm not qualified to review a book on the Thirty Year's War. I came to the topic knowing only that the war and the resulting peace were significant in the history of Central Europe and in the development of international relations. Peter Wilson is a very good writer and historian, and his ability to craft an intelligible narrative of an incredibly complicated and oftentimes confusing conflict is impressive. The course of the war was frequently dictated by territorial, hereditary, confessional, and dynastic political dynamics that are utterly obscure to most people today, but Wilson's storytelling made them accessible to me, a newcomer to the topic. I was also very pleased with Wilson's habit of stepping back from the history to offer historiographical comment that gave the entire treatment useful and enlightening perspective.

finished reading The Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson

Peter H. Wilson, Peter H. Wilson: The Thirty Years War (2009, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)

I'm not qualified to review a book on the Thirty Year's War. I came to the topic knowing only that the war and the resulting peace were significant in the history of Central Europe and in the development of international relations. Peter Wilson is a very good writer and historian, and his ability to craft an intelligible narrative of an incredibly complicated and oftentimes confusing conflict is impressive. The course of the war was frequently dictated by territorial, hereditary, confessional, and dynastic political dynamics that are utterly obscure to most people today, but Wilson's storytelling made them accessible to me, a newcomer to the topic. I was also very pleased with Wilson's habit of stepping back from the history to offer historiographical comment that gave the entire treatment useful and enlightening perspective.