[Nikitta]

I've recently read The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow, for a change of genres.

It is a story taking place during the witch trials and starts with a young girl whose father is a witchfinder and whose maternal aunt studies the sciences of the time. Her aunt is accused of being a witch and burned, but this young girl promises her to fight the entire witch trial thing, which is already somewhat on the decline.

She seeks help and inspiration from Isac Newton and Benjamin Franklin among others.

The narrator of the story is a book - Newton's Principia and it tells the story as it sees it, and of its battle with another book - The Witch Hammer.

I like the way the book at first switches between the studies of the aunt who teaches her, and what the father does when putting the suspected witches under trial and teaching this to her brother. It really contrasts the two things sharply and throughout the book you get a feeling of those two being well contrasted.

You follow this girl thorugh her very eventful life and search for the ultimate argument. I think that the book is very captivating and it's one I won't forget soon.