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Anne Applebaum: Red Famine (Hardcover, 2017, Signal)

Winner of the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag …

Deep research; untrustworthy analysis

Deep research on a vital topic, unfortunately analyzed by someone who said that of course farmers hoarded grain (while their neighbors starved to death).

Would be a good starting point for further investigation, but I didn't trust the analysis at all.

Heather Havrilesky: Foreverland (Hardcover, 2022, Ecco)

If falling in love is the peak of human experience, then marriage is the slow …

Review of 'Foreverland' on 'Goodreads'

I think I'd enjoy this more if I were a more prickly gal. Being proposed to on the wrong part of the coast of Spain is not really a problem I can imagine focusing on.