I frequently reacted out loud while reading Mary Clare Jalonick's oral history of January 6th. Here's a (partial) list of reasons why.

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It's been a long time since I said this about a book in any genre, but I couldn't put down Mary Clare Jalonick's Storm at the Capitol: An Oral History of January 6th. Out of town last week and taking most meals on my own, I would read Storm at the dinner table, absently eating and sipping and paying the bill; blunder out to the car, still reading; and floor it home so I could keep going. 

I can't call it "suspenseful" – we know what happened – and I can't call it "enjoyable," either, but it's effective, God knows. It put me right back to that day, sitting in Exhibit B.'s physical shop in red South Brooklyn, waiting on a utility appointment and watching the incursion unfold on Twitter. The shop's front wall consisted of a glass bay window, and a mostly-glass entry door with only a push-button lock on it, and I remember shrinking further and further back in the room, trying to disappear into the shadows of the space, thinking, nowhere is safe here.

("Which 'here'?" Pick one.)