Everyone’s like, “I am uniquely prepared to understand this moment in time because I read history” and I thought to myself yes. I am picking up what it being put down. 

So I got a book about the 14th century— “a violent, tormented, bewildered, suffering and disintegrating age, a time, as many thought, of Satan triumphant” 

A DISTANT MIRROR by Barbara Tuchman

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i bought this years ago but the typeface was so small on my copy i couldn't get started on it. worth it?

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Ok. About “10%” in now (lame Kindle way of denoting reading progress).  This book absolutely rocks. Tuchman is a divine writer. The way she puts things is so great. And the time period itself is fascinating.