Trivia: Who said “We are getting short of a certain type of paper…!!!” ? Was it: Especially delightful was an interlude toward the middle of the book regarding the king of England desperately writing Allies to find out if anyone had any toilet paper they could send to the British embassy. Hard to imagine, huh? This book was a great comfort to me this week because 1) I love Erik Larson, and 2) it’s reassuring to remember that we’ve been through circumstances like this before, and we’ve always come out thriving on the other side. Completely unplanned, my first quarantine read was Erik Larson’s The Splendid and the Vile, a book about the time all of London was forced to stay indoors indefinitely by forces far beyond their control. Loooong time no see, Readers! Like everyone and their mother, I am hunkered down for the pandemic, so of course I’m catching up on my reading! It’s been a hell of a year and it’s only Wednesday, Lemon.
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