A while back I was browsing around looking at other websites dedicated to the reading life and came across this reading challenge aimed at clearing out massive TBR (To Be Read) stacks. As I am a woman who has many such stacks all over her house--seems like a perfect fit.
The goal is to pick 25 books out of your TBR stacks and read them all in 2025. Ready set read...
Slough House #5
Thank you, Mick Herron, for another epic outing with the Horses. This series is well worth the reading time. One of those rare times where the TV show is as almost as good as the book. Shows can never be the same but this one comes close. Rodney Ho gets his moment to "shine" although Shirley comes a close second. Emma Flynt seems to be steps away from exile to Slough House. Can't wait to read the next. Joe Country
Subtitle: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6 - September 30, 1945
In America, one typically thinks of nuclear weapons in the terms of "Oppenheimer" and how their beneficial use brought a swift end to WWII (Japan). This diary looks at the immediate aftermath of the explosion in Hiroshima through Japanese civilian eyes.
From the back cover: The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness. His compelling diary was originally published to worldwide acclaim in 1955.
I think the author Pearl Buck sums up my sentiments exactly: "A book that we all ought to read in order that we may know what we have done and what will happen in the future if the atomic weapons continue to be used."
