Bonk is a lot of fun, and that's what you'd expect from Mary Roach. I was a big fan of Stiff, not such a fan of Spook. It's not nearly as salacious as you might expect. It's never dry but somewhat clinical.

Meanwhile, I finally finished watching the documentary Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary. you know what? Not what I expected and in a bad way. I didn't expect a 90 minute interview (light on the questions) where she recounted the last days of Hitler, nor did I expect her humanization of Hitler. for once, seeing someone humanized wasn't welcome. Really, he was an atrocious person who did horrible things and I don't care how much he loved his job, or how kind he was to his staff. I don't need the blow by blow of the last days. He was murdering people while she worked for him. I realize that at the time some didn't know the extent of the torture and death in the camps, but at the same time Hitler was still vocal in his hatred of the Jewish people. I mean, it's not as if it was a quirk--his whole plan was to create a master race! You can't excuse that, and in my opinion she was just as complicit as those tried in Nuremburg.

Maybe I missed the point, though.

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