Plenty of travel in October, with trips to Turkey, Luxembourg and France, which normally means I get a lot of reading done, and yet I didn’t manage more than three books:

Democracy Awakening (Cox Richardson) – an important book, chartering the rise of fascism and autocracy in the US, and the fight against those ugly phenomena. 5/5

Gut (Enders) – a charming book about our innards. It’s not all shit. As it were. Funny and enlightening in the darkest of areas. 4/5

Invention and Innovation (Smil) – the author of “How the world really works” takes on innovations that never were, or never were as good as touted. Not nearly as good as HTWRW, but still erudite and interesting. 4/5

(The main reason I don’t have more books to report on is that I started on a whopper of a tome, 1260 pages long. I will continue on that while also reading shorter ones in parallel – if I don’t I risk having zero books read by the end of November…!)