Will Ansbacher’s Reviews > The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain, 1918-39 > Status Update

Oh that looks interesting. How are you finding it?

It's good, but very dense and I keep falling asleep. Apparently a lot happened in those 20-odd years :-)

I imagine. I look forward to your review. I fancy a history book to sink my teeth into. Although I'm reading Arguably by Christopher Hitchens, which is a big enough volume of non-fiction to be getting on with for now.

Arguably is brilliant isn't it, though it's not history. It has the advantage you can put it down any time ... in fact, that's probably the best way to enjoy it.

I love Hitchens, but I'm appalled to say at the moment I'm finding reading him quite difficult. Most of what I'm reading is going over my head, I feel that he's writing to an intellectual audience who already *know* what he's talking about and get his insider asides. I've never read Upton Sinclair or Saul Bellow (though I think now I will) and don't know American political history. That said, someone recommended I abandon that section for now and just play pick-n-mix with whatever article titles take my fancy.