Weekend Reading Roundup (26 June 2017)

[nanila]

Bon Monday, all. How did your weekend reading go? If you planned on anything specifically, did you read it?

Comments

[davidgillon]

I worked my way through an alt-history WiP that's mostly focused on Japan. It's interesting in places, Hirohito takes on the militarists rather than being dominated by them, marries FDR's daughter and then only has daughters, leading to a more liberal Japan. Some of the rest of it I'm not so sure of - Stalin as Socialist PM of Imperial Russia? The idea for a Zionist homeland in China actually taking off? I think it was the odd snippets of real-world history that kept me reading, with my favourite being The Great Emu War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War

[nanila]

Ah, it's good(?!) to know that the rationale for culling hasn't changed for decades. :/