Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David von DrehleMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
FINALLY is all I can say about finishing this book. This book is extremely slow. Unfortunately, there are few good stopping points, so if you are reading on say a lunch break (guilty) or before bed (guilty, again), you have to guess whether a good stopping point is coming up or not. Since I was constantly having to stop/start in the middle of chapters, sometimes Amazon's WhisperSync would be off when switching from device to device.
Another frustrating quality about this book is that the author would constantly go off on tangents. Early in the book we got history lessons on the suffragette movement in New York, Sicily, and the 1906 Vesuvius eruption (just to name a few).
While the topics covered in this book are extremely important, this book was not all that enjoyable.
I read this book as part of the PopSugar Reading Challenge 2018 - A microhistory.
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