Gomorra | 
pickNon-fiction book about mafia. I learned so much reading this. For example I didn't know that mafia has a hand in producing high end fashion clothes. This book is almost 20 years old so I think much has changed about mafia in that time but I still found this fascinating to read.
Tea & reading after a long work week 🥰
It was extra tough Monday after holidays so decided to end it early and have salad & some quality reading time at my favourite caffeteria. 📚📖
It's also soo hot today that it is uncomfortable to use one's brain. 🤦♀️🧠
“Las instituciones internacionales de investigaciones económicas están constantemente sirviendo datos (…); como, por ejemplo, el célebre índice “Big Mac”, que considera más próspero un país cuanto más caro cuesta un bocadillo en el McDonald‘s. En cambio, para evaluar la situación de los derechos humanos, los analistas observan el precio al que se vende el kaláshnikov. Cuanto más barata sea la metralleta, más se violan los derechos humanos.”
Current read 1: “Gomorra”. The textile business and its dark secrets; the drug market, its distribution routes and strategies; the Camorra‘s ways of working and the idiosincrasy of the people of the region where they operate. A truly interesting and disturbing book, especially when one knows that it is all based on true events and the author must live under police protection. I love the immediacy of purchasing eBooks for certain books and topics.
Besides the blood and excess, what kept me reading was the intelligence and heart in the work. The tone is raw and cynical but it isn't without occasional touches of poetry and sentimentalism. The author never stayed in one mode long enough to get tiresome. I don't know if I was convinced by the litany of the names and places or if I just sympathized with a good writer. His heart's in the right place. I hope it's still beating somewhere.
