Yesterday's library haul: Gingerbread Baby, and June Fourth Elegies by Liu Xiaobo, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. I might have picked up this book because I took the author for a Nobel Prize laureate in Literature 😊. It is a collection of poems written over many years, in prison, in labour camp or at home, on the anniversaries of the Tiananmen Square protests. Some are more to my taste than others.
pickDoes what it says on the tin, taking us from 1917 to 1928, although the author did sometimes overwhelm me with statistics.
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pickInteresting and informative although a bit dense at times (it read like a text book). Recommend for any history lovers.
pickSo this book took awhile to finish, apparently I started this in January 🤷♂️. It was just so thorough, which was both a positive and a negative. This book covers all types of nuclear accidents to include those related to research and tests, the transportation of weapons, and those at power plants. This was informative if not a bit unsettling at times with the number of close calls reported. The author‘s light tone and sense of humor helps
pickTremendous overview of the history of fascism in the US.
