Xe Sands voice is so resonate / distinctive . Have you listened to her narrate First Contact/Eclipsed Evolution trilogy by Kim Harrison?!

I have not! I just finished her reading of a book about the Russian Revolution.

I didn't love the book but it's really interesting and none of my issues are with the reading! (Sorry for an Amazon link) www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01N...

Thank you, will see if the local library had this. Always more history to learn. And Russian Revolution seems timely, alas.

It's a pretty heavy book, and I think it's probably hard going if you don't already have a general idea of who the major players are, I wish it had a slightly more surfaced framing that wasn't just "these people from the US/UK/Western Europe wrote about watching it"

Is there a different book on the topic you prefer?

It's hard to recommend one! It kind of depends on what you want to know about. This one isn't really about the politics of why, it's about the experience of surviving the collapse of the government for non-citizen journalists and diplomats documenting what they saw.