Weekend Reading Roundup (30 August 2017)

[nanila]

How did your (last couple of) weekend(s) reading go? If you planned on anything specifically, did you read it?

Apologies for lateness of this and lack of previous week's postings. It was a bank holiday weekend in the UK & also I've been overwhelmed with work.

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[nanila]

The weekend before this, I finished Blitzed, the account of drug use in Nazi Germany. Despite the exhaustive bibliography, it was not always clear what was fact and what was conjecture on the part of the author. A little frustrating.

I then read Andy Hamiton's The Star Witness, which I'd bought for my partner. He recommended it as funny but not in the usual rollicking-laugh style of his radio comedy. Unfortunately he forgot to mention that part of the plot is predicated around someone causing deliberate harm to a child, which is a very sensitive point with me these days. This spoiled my enjoyment of it, and I would not recommend it to anyone for whom this is no-go content.

[ironed_orchid]

I hope this weekend you manage to read something that is more enjoyable