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Just another GR refugee. Other than that, I had a stroke in 2004, and read almost anything I can get my hands on, though I have a particular weakness for history, mystery, and historical fiction.
Currently reading
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
Progress:
6 %
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Progress:
40 %
Wizard's First Rule
Progress:
49 %
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
Progress:
14 %
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Progress:
20 %
The Hanover Square Affair
Progress:
10 %
Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, and the Table (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
Progress:
10 %
Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Progress:
9 %
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years
Progress:
20/512 pages
The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson
Most of this book is a well-enough done examining of how Victorian London coped (or didn't cope) with disease epidemics. And how Dr. Snow tracked down the root of the cholera epidemic to the city's public water system, via an ingenious map.
But the last chapter, and its discussion of suitcase nuclear bombs, lost me entirely, and is the principal reason it doesn't get a higher rating.
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