I finished the book of obituaries and started Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows but finsihed it before I got around to posting that I was reading it! It was great! I won't give it away. Go read it.

I'm now reading Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence by Langguth. Each chapter is written as am episode focusing on an individual. He does a great job of keeping it interesting, even if it's a bit disjointed in that he's not covering a specific timeline in great detail. So far so good. I don't know much about the War of 1812 so it's a great primer on the era.