NonFic of the week 19 November [View all]

Late in getting to this, but nobody else is doing it, so no biggie.

My non-fic for the week will be MT Anderson's Symphony for the City of the Dead. As a classical music fan and a history buff, this YA book will combine two of my favorite subjects. Anderson discusses the Siege of Leningrad, and how it influenced composer Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th symphony. Then there are the twin terrors Shostakovich endured from both living under a siege and having a, shall we say, fragile relationship with the Stalinist regime.

It'll be a can't-put-down book for me, but I can't speak for anyone else.

So what non-fiction is everyone else reading this week?