Recommend me something to read

[conuly]

Ideally something I can get through the NYPL or the Queens Public Library (I haven't yet re-upped my Brooklyn Public Library card. I ought to go do that this weekend or the week after.)

I suppose I should set a good example and rec something to all of you first. Lemme see....

I did recently enjoy both Long Live Evil and How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying!

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I laughed a bit more than this joke deserves

I just looked up this poem again, so here it is

Dutch museum to display 200-year-old condom probably made from sheep’s appendix featuring erotic etching of a nun and three clergymen

Riding With Strangers: California Hitchhikers in the 1970s

Japanese Scientists Develop Artificial Blood Compatible With All Blood Types

When People Hear Voices, But Only When They Want To

“They say that all women have the same apprehension”: Anxiety and Isolation in Seventeenth-Century Pregnancy (This historical woman's family seems to have been pretty callous, I gotta say)

Caring Across Distance, One Call at a Time

Amelia Earhart’s Reckless Final Flights

The true cost of prisons and jails is higher than many realize, researchers say

Trump voters call president's pardon of corrupt Virginia sheriff 'a terrific mistake'

Immigration official defends tactics against criticism of a heavy hand as arrests rise nationwide

FEMA staff baffled after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say

Flamethrower attack in Colorado leaves eight injured at Israeli hostages rally

Senator Dismisses Medicaid Cuts Killing People: ‘Well, We're All Going to Die'

Ukraine’s Warning to the World’s Other Military Forces

Comments

[aurumcalendula]

Nonfiction: Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson

Fiction: Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi

[conuly]

Demon of Unrest is not fiction? What's it about?

[aurumcalendula]

It's about the ~5 months between Lincoln's election and the start of the Civil War. I wasn't aware of all the stuff that was going on in that period of time.

I liked Larson's use of primary sources (lots of excerpts from letters and diaries) and that he made a point of emphazing that the war was over slavery.