A Deep Dive

I didn't know anything about the topic of "blood libel" (the practice of ridiculously conjuring up hogwash stories about Jews kidnapping children in order to drain--and drink--their blood for supposed Jewish rituals) before reading this book. But boy, do I ever now. Seems too stupid to even be a "thing", but I guess it has stood the test of time, and Jewish folks have suffered greatly because of it. From this book I learned that people have been lying about news for literally thousands of years, and conspiracy theories are nothing new. I guess idiocy is a condition of the human experience and has always been. Although exhaustively researched, it was a little mired in minutiae for me, and dragged at times. Okay, actually mostly dragged. I found myself working on my speed-reading skills just to get through it. But it did inform me and for that I'm grateful. Just don't make me read it again.