Absolutely loved 'The Lincoln Highway', got really invested in the fate of the characters and it was just a joy to read. Started as a Steinbeckesque trip from Nebraska to California, but the journey quickly changed into an odyssey. Woke up early on a Saturday to finish it. ' The Doom of the Hapsburgs was written between the wars by an editor for The Times, who seemed determined to prove that he knew best all along, had warned everybody that WWI was going to happen in exactly the way he predicted and that the Habsburgs were doomed as a result. I could hardly resist buying and reading a book with that title, and he unquestionably knew the regime having worked as correspondent in Vienna, but it was all a bit 'I told you so'.
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