So, What Are You Reading?

The Poisoner's Handbook (2010) by Deborah Blum. A look at the work of Charles Norris and Alexander Gettler, two pioneers in the field of forensic toxicology in the US in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York.

Also the first book I've read with the Libby app from my local librPretty neat. neat.

 

Reread "Maus", Art Spiegelman's graphic...well, no, it certainly isn't a novel. Not sure what to call it, maybe a biography of his father?

 

Just finished Mussolini (1981) by Denis Mack Smith. A very detailed, and well-researched biography of Benito Mussolini, starting from birth and continuing until death. While not specifically a book about fascism there is enough on the internal inconsistency of the ideology to give one a good understanding of it and the violence it caused.

 

"Desert Wife", a fascinating and occasionally shocking account by Hilda Faunce, the wife of a Navaho trader during WWI.