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Done yet?
After starting and stopping this book over the last six months, one thought remains:
I'm so glad to be done with Simon. DONE.
At least Magdalena seems a bit less harpy however.
After starting and stopping this book over the last six months, one thought remains:
I'm so glad to be done with Simon. DONE.
At least Magdalena seems a bit less harpy however.
https://superfluousreading.wordpress.com/2018/05/03/the-werewolf-of-bamberg-by-oliver-potzsch
Have I mentioned that I'm in love with Jakob Kuisl??? That if I could transport in time I would go to 1600s Bavaria and spend a night in the hangman's cottage??? BECAUSE I WOULD!!!
Ok...maybe I wouldn't, I wouldn't take the risk of being a woman in 1600s Bavaria/anywhere, because as I keep learning in these books...being a woman is fucking dangerous.
Now to the book...
The Kuisl Family is on its way to Bamberg to celebrate the wedding of Jakob's brother. On the way there...an arm is discovered...just an arm, and it belongs to a high up politico in Bamberg.
As the story continues more and more people go missing, and hysteria ensues as the city is concerned about a werewolf.
This is where the story gets really eerie to me. How quickly chaos takes over and people will turn on eachother.
Fear is such a powerful weapon...I see it now in our society, so reading about it in the 1600s is still pretty terrifying.
It's also interesting how people won't listen to known facts/science. Simon as a well educated physician is constantly struggling to calm people with reason, but it seems that reason isn't what people want. It's almost like they prefer chaos!!!??? I can't understand it.
Oliver Potzsch always says he loves writing about history, because "history always writes the best stories". Which is terrifyingly true. Nearly all of the story is a fictionalized account of REAL events.
These books are so wonderful. I bought the paperbacks of the entire series while reading this one because I couldn't imagine not owning such wonderful books and such transfixing characters.
Ok...maybe I wouldn't, I wouldn't take the risk of being a woman in 1600s Bavaria/anywhere, because as I keep learning in these books...being a woman is fucking dangerous.
Now to the book...
The Kuisl Family is on its way to Bamberg to celebrate the wedding of Jakob's brother. On the way there...an arm is discovered...just an arm, and it belongs to a high up politico in Bamberg.
As the story continues more and more people go missing, and hysteria ensues as the city is concerned about a werewolf.
This is where the story gets really eerie to me. How quickly chaos takes over and people will turn on eachother.
Fear is such a powerful weapon...I see it now in our society, so reading about it in the 1600s is still pretty terrifying.
It's also interesting how people won't listen to known facts/science. Simon as a well educated physician is constantly struggling to calm people with reason, but it seems that reason isn't what people want. It's almost like they prefer chaos!!!??? I can't understand it.
Oliver Potzsch always says he loves writing about history, because "history always writes the best stories". Which is terrifyingly true. Nearly all of the story is a fictionalized account of REAL events.
These books are so wonderful. I bought the paperbacks of the entire series while reading this one because I couldn't imagine not owning such wonderful books and such transfixing characters.