Guus Bosman

A lovely short book about the impact of various diseases and epidemics on human development. I like how the author is opiniated and her style is funny. "That was a monstrous thing to do", she wrote at some point. Enjoyable book on a sad subject.

It was published just before the discovery of Covid-19 which makes it all the more pungent. She actually wrote about "get really worried if you see people dying of pneumonia" -- and that's of course exactly what happened.