I finished The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 this morning before breakfast. Its focus on firsthand accounts of the earthquake and how it affected everyday San Franciscans is really good, and there's good work on some of the choices made (I was unaware that Mayor Schmitz and Brig. Gen. Funston (1) instructed firefighters to only dynamite buildings already on fire to create firebreaks and (2) allowed the use of blackpowder and other explosives for some firebreaks, both with suboptimal results). It got a little repetitive at times, with some sections repeating earlier sections nearly verbatim, but also in the presentation of events, which was generally entirely chronological and at times had a bit of a Winnie-the-Pooh feel (e.g., "...and so San Francisco burned from the bottom of page 53 until the top of page 307...").