Among other books, I’m reading Scandal On Plum Island: A Commander Becomes the Accused by Marian E. Lindberg, which is very interesting and very badly written. This is one of the worst books I’ve run across in terms of the vast divide between content and writing style. I admit I’m torn, because it’s painful. I shall probably persevere, but only in small chunks as I get too outraged by the extremely poor prose. Editors, alas, we miss you!
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