Six the Musical & some nonfiction

We saw Six in London; my daughter fell in love and spent a full day watching performances on YouTube, which made me think of the days when fannishness required going uphill in the snow, both ways... (I thought it was fine but I would've clearly gotten more out of it had I been more familiar with the conventions of European song shows. Also I went & saw Hamilton in Chicago, and that was more awesome, sorry not sorry as Anne might say.)


Lydia Pyne, Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff: ( treachery of imitation )

Kathleen DuVal, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution: ( what was happening in Florida? )

Daniel Okrent, The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America: ( the previous triumph of racist exclusionists )