Biography of the Month

Ok, so I haven't made any progress with the mammoth biography of Eleanor Marx yet.

But I am gripped by 'Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking' by Anya von Bremzen. A very dark history/biography/ culinary memoir of Soviet Russia.

It occurs to me I seem to have an overwhelming interest in books about Soviet Russia and the Communist Bloc. Maybe because it is something I remember from my childhood.