I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.
Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.
I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.
We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?
I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.
