The Biography. I wonder if the biography of a novelist is ever as interesting as his books. I doubt it. We seem to be heading into dangerous waters. A lovely, elegant book, succinct, interesting, and beautifully written, it clearly shows the intellectual that David Bowie was.
His books are never so much as who but understanding why. He is shot, leaving a fashionable but very discreet brothel. But who? Maigret suffers from a cold and sneezes his way across half of Paris before retiring to bed and of course solving the puzzle. A lovely book. This is a must read to understand the pandemic and the response to it. Quite oddly it starts with George Bush and the unlikely fact that he had read a book that fired him up to realise that no one in the entire Government was in charge of any pandemic response.
He insisted on starting such an organisation right away. And did. So kudos to him, though no amount of planning could forestall the damage a Trump can do. The book tells of the real heroes, mostly mavericks and outsiders, who persisted, often at the cost of their jobs, to prepare America for some kind of a response while the Trump Government utterly failed the people.
A gripping and fascinating story. The foolish naivete of the American family who came to the American Embassy in Berlin in , when everyone was busy trying to pretend that the Hitler regime was no big deal.
Tourists and other Americans beaten by the Nazi thugs made it hard to look away but daughter Martha manages to, for quite some time, before inevitably the true nature of the organization reveals itself. The book is a picture of American ignorant innocence against vilely motivated right-wing gangsters, which foreshadows what we have all just witnessed in the late White House.
