Cuban Missile Crisis
I recently finished reading Nuclear Folly which is about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Dad spoilt the ending for me by saying they didn't set the nukes off. Learnt a lot but it was a very long read and I would have preferred to watch a documentary series instead.
Book chat (CW fascism)
Misplaced my half read copy of Travellers in the Third Reich (which is what it says on the tin - it's non-fiction about people who travelled to Nazi Germany and how they responded to fascism). In the meantime I've picked up It Walks By Night, a crime novel set in Paris, which seems relatively short so I won't end up with too much in my "currently reading" pile.
book talk (CW voyerism)
Just finished Pleasure and a Calling, by Phil Hogan. It's about an estate agent whose kept the keys for every house he's sold. First time in a while I've been this drawn in by a book! It reminded me a bit of the first series of Dexter. I couldn't put it down.
book talk (CW fascism)
Just finished Travellers in the Third Reich. Informative and interesting in the first half, but falls into the same trap as Heiresses, in that the further you get into the book, the more it just becomes about a demographic of 20th century obnoxious posh people and the stupid things they wrote in letters to each other. In some cases, the same people are mentioned in both books. It's not the fault of the authors, it comes with the territory.
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Struggling to pick my next book. I've got a lot of WW2 stuff on the pile but I think early 20th century is a period I want to get some space from for a while. Lots of classics too, but I don't have the bandwidth. I just want something to hook me again like A Pleasure and A Calling did? Someone recommended The Second Woman by Louise Mey.
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I think I might take the opportunity to finish some books that have been sat on the "currently reading" pile for a while. Vibrant Matter perhaps? I picked it up while I was doing my MA and never quite finished it.
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Finished It Walks By Night. I think I just really liked the book cover on this one + the idea of reading something off the British Library Crime Classics list. It's set in Paris and is about a murder in a room no one went in or out of. There was a short story at the end set in London which I found too grating to read. I might give the book a reread at a later date, it was complicated and pompous but felt like good illustration fuel.
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@sullybiker same. If it wasn't that good I don't think I'd have stuck with the book