What are you reading this week of August 6, 2017?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Two books at the moment.

In non fiction, The Radium Girls by Kate Moore, a heartbreaking story about the young women -- many just teenagers -- who were hired to paint the numbers on clocks so they would glow in the dark. Many of them died after truly horrific suffering. The companies they worked for tried to deny any responsibility whatsoever.

My current fiction book is Blackout by Marc Elsberg. Translated from the German. Some sort of industrial sabotage/terrorism shuts down virtually all power plants in Western Europe. It's February, and within a few days things get quite desperate. I'm not quite half way and so far it's quite good. It's a warning about the interconnectedness of so many things, which makes them quite vulnerable to anyone with a decent knowledge of how to hack into such systems.