This reminds me. About a month ago a fellow diner at the one weekday breakfast spot in my town was asking me about my e-reader. Even after I told him it was a Sony he kept calling it a Kindle. So earlier this week he stopped by my table to tell me that he had purchased a reader (yes a Kindle) for his father who is in the local nursing home here. He said his father just loved it principally for the ability to set the type size to very large.

Anyway I just finished up the Raj Quartet last weekend. I was rather pleased that Merrick came to the sort of end he deserved, but the tragic fate of Ahmed Kasim not so. It was nice to get another perspective on that part of history (the end of British colonialism in India) other than the movie Gandhi. I like historical novels for that reason. It confirmed what I had always thought, that the film displayed an idealized version of history attributing the British departure entirely to Gandhi's campaign of peaceful resistance. World War II and the Indian Nationalist Movement's threats not to just remain neutral in the conflict, but to actively help the Japanese against the British, also has a fair amount to do with the British agreeing to depart.

So right now I am about midway through The Conspiracy by John Hersey. It's a little late, reading it almost eight years ago would have been better.