Reacting to books
I fly to Arizona tomorrow, which means I need to think about packing. (Why did I love to pack so much as a child, but dread that as an adult?) True to form, I'm finding myself spending far more time thinking about the books and handwork I will bring rather than what clothes to pack. I think I have settled on two books. (Just 2! It may be some sort of a record.) I'm taking The Crook Factory by Dan Simmons, which I'm already one hundred pages into. It's about the counter-intelligence spy organization that Ernest Hemingway created in Cuba during WWII, so locate Nazi submarines. While it's fiction, based on the author's notes, the book is actually about 95% based on historical record, including documents previously undisseminated which the author received via FOIA. While it's been a bit slow to start, I think it is going to be very interesting, especially since this is a piece of history I know very little about. The other book I'm taking is Focus: The Hi...
