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I'm DNFing this for the moment. It's not that I don't like it. It is that I've got other things that I am, at this point, more interested in reading.

"The national census of 754 had recorded 52.9 million people in nearly 9 million taxpaying households. Ten years later, it counted 16.9 million in nearly 3 million. This suggests that more than 30 million people had been displaced as refugees, killed in war or died of famine. If so, it was one of the deadliest wars in history."

I've read the introduction and first chapter. If you've fallen for the myth of a good Empire this book puts it to bed fairly quickly. Empires were organised - or disorganised - violence.

This came in from Libby this morning. Not my normal type of read, but it has my attention.

So many highlights!

You hear that clanging noise? That's Jean Rhys dropping the n-word.