Currently Reading
Fitting in time for blogging is getting harder and harder. As for housekeeping? What’s that?
I’ve started two nonfiction books – which is unusual for me – thinking they might be easier to pick up and put down than novels (not meant as an insult to nonfiction writers!) With two back to back weekend trips to visit our new grandchild sandwiching a visit from them to visit family up here, I polished off an Elin Hilderbrand and a collection of crime fiction short stories, but not much more than that.
Come to This Court & Cry by Linda Kinstler
“In her gripping debut, Kinstler traces how the crimes of World War II have been prosecuted and justice attempted over generations — how memories have been formed and used, usurped and omitted.” – The Washington Post
Come to This Court & Cry: How the Holocaust Ends (Public Affairs, 2022) by Linda Kinstler is an extremely well-researched work of journalism that grew out of the author’s investigation into family history – specifically her Latvian grandfather, whose position during the Nazi occupation was unclear.
An Elegant Defense by Matt Richtel
The Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist “explicates for the lay reader the intricate biology of our immune system” – Jerome Groopman, MD, New York Review of Books
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