How quickly we become accustomed...

So I just finished Eric Flint's 1632.  It tripped my "What Happens Next" button, and now I want to read the sequel.

See, I've read at least a little before falling asleep nearly every night for almost 35 years; that's why the Kindle and I are perfect, because it has the potential to greatly reduce the teetering pile that threatens to topple over on me and my husband while we're sleeping.  The Kindle further reduces domestic tensions by having it's own cunning little book-light, so the room stays dark and my husband can sleep.

So I go to Amazon to place my order, and THE SEQUEL ISN'T IN KINDLE FORMAT.  OH THE HUMANITY.

I have to ORDER it and WAIT until WEDNESDAY.  WEDNESDAY!  But I want it NOW!  NOW NOW NOW!

It's not fair.  :)

I rather liked the book, though.  It got a bit anvilicious, from time to time, and some of the characters seemed a bit caricaturish (looking at you, John Simpson) but it was quite good, and the author clearly knew his stuff.  There was a definite hint of O HAI I WROTE A FIX-IT FIC FOR TEH SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LET ME SHOW YOU IT!

Incidentally, I think history classes should put a lot more emphasis on the 17th century.   As centuries go, in European history, it is an Epoch of Suck surpassed only by the 14th.  I've actually heard people argue that Christianity is better than Islam because different factions of Christianity have co-existed without ever having gone to war.

*blink*

Em.  No.

It was a meat-grinder.  It was awful.  Even in the Colonies, the Pilgrims and Puritans persecuted away merrily, sure in their belief in the Righteousness of their Faith, and the Absolute Justice of their Cause.  Remember, kids, Rhode Island exists because that's where you went when Massachusetts was going to burn you at the stake.  The Founding Fathers' insistence on the Separation of Church and State was so profound because those decades of slaughter were still pretty fresh in the collective memory.

Incidentally, can anyone recommend a good biography of Gustavus Adolphus?  Clearly I need to read more about him...