Because AW‘s ending combined with the wives‘ fates in short order could feel depressing to you.
Haha. Well, cahn definitely wanted to do the Ziebura three in that order so as to develop sympathy for the guys before reading about how they punched down. She said if she read the Wives book first, she'd go into the other two resenting the hell out of the Hohenzollern brothers.
She probably wouldn't mind splitting them up, but there's one other consideration: my main goal here is to beef up my German. And Ziebura has straightforward prose that I can handle, and unless Oster or Krockow also do, I'd like to work my way up. I learned my lesson trying to jump straight to Roes and Horowski. But if they do, I've no objection to interspersing either or both. (Lehndorff I'd like to leave for last, since I suspect the genre will make the content more difficult to follow in a foreign language.)
Additionally: - I have a seriously high tolerance for depressing material. - For someone who's trying to learn German, "no new content" (which I had guessed already) is a feature, not a bug. :)
Cahn, if you want to skip Sons, I don't mind. I'll read it on my own, and it'll give you a break between depressing book one and depressing book three. But it's short (~100 pages), and just because it has nothing new to Selena, doesn't mean you won't get anything out of it. :)
Selena, thank you for the Wilhelmine correspondence offer. I will seek out recommendations when the time comes (probably when we get to French--I want to read her memoirs and a bunch of correspondence).
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Re: Learning Frederick
Date: 2020-08-20 03:15 am (UTC)Haha. Well, cahn definitely wanted to do the Ziebura three in that order so as to develop sympathy for the guys before reading about how they punched down. She said if she read the Wives book first, she'd go into the other two resenting the hell out of the Hohenzollern brothers.
She probably wouldn't mind splitting them up, but there's one other consideration: my main goal here is to beef up my German. And Ziebura has straightforward prose that I can handle, and unless Oster or Krockow also do, I'd like to work my way up. I learned my lesson trying to jump straight to Roes and Horowski. But if they do, I've no objection to interspersing either or both. (Lehndorff I'd like to leave for last, since I suspect the genre will make the content more difficult to follow in a foreign language.)
Additionally:
- I have a seriously high tolerance for depressing material.
- For someone who's trying to learn German, "no new content" (which I had guessed already) is a feature, not a bug. :)
Cahn, if you want to skip Sons, I don't mind. I'll read it on my own, and it'll give you a break between depressing book one and depressing book three. But it's short (~100 pages), and just because it has nothing new to Selena, doesn't mean you won't get anything out of it. :)
Selena, thank you for the Wilhelmine correspondence offer. I will seek out recommendations when the time comes (probably when we get to French--I want to read her memoirs and a bunch of correspondence).