Civil War Poetry and Prose by Walt Whitman. I keep this little paperback in my purse for brief reading, such as on the treadmill, during a Cub Scouts hike, or at a stoplight.
The Gates of November: Chronicles of the Slepak Family by Chaim Potok. Chaim Potok is a new author for me, recent FR recommendation. I read My Name Is Asher Lev last week, and The Chosen is waiting at the library.
To the Other Towns: A Life of Blessed Peter Favre by William V. Bangert, S.J. This is a re-read of a biography of one of the founders of the Jesuits.
And on the CD player, One Nation by Dr. Ben Carson. This audiobook is being passed around my prayer group.
The Guns of August
The Goldfinch
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Transatlantic
“Kafka on the Shore” by Haruki Murakami. A difficult book to describe. It’s got everything from an old man who talks to cats...to discussions of Hegelian philosophy...to Col. Harland Sanders pimping girls in a back alley.
I’m not sure the author is going to be able to tie this bundle up in the end, but it’s got plenty of bizarre twists and that’s keeping it pretty entertaining.
Just finished something completely different in Carl Hiassen's Hoot. Exactly what you expect from him.
Just started Cormac McCarthy's Child of God
Here's my whole reading list over the past few years: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5555680?shelf=read
“The Science of Mind” by Ernest Holmes
Been reading the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child for a while. I started with the first book “Killing Floor” last year and I just finished “The Affair” which is book 16. It is a great series and Jack Reacher is an awesome character
I live for threads like this
The Scarlet Sisters by Myra MacPhearson which is the biography of two sisters, Victoria Woodall and Tennessee (Tennie) Clark on, who lived in the Guilded Age. They were the first women stockbrokers, Victoria was the first woman to run for president; they ran around with Cornelius Vanderbuilt; influential in the spiritualist movement and were friends with Queen Victoria. They started from nothing with an abusive alcoholic father who was a con man and a slattern of a mother. Like their father they were con’s. They were also very involved in the free love movement.
Easy Riders and Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind (a book I happened to see at the library). Its is about Hollyweird in the 1970s and the directors who came to prominence during that decade.
Otherwise, I’m on the 2nd to last chapter of ‘Against All Things Ending’ - the 9th book in the Thomas Covenant series by Stephan R. Donaldson (two previous trilogies, and now a quadrilogy?).
If you like epic fantasy, SRD is a master. I started reading this series over 30 years ago. With the latest installment (The Last Dark) published just last year, SRD has quite the run going....
Be fore-warned though, I find that I need to have a dictionary handy when reading this guy.
Finishing Herman Wouk’s “The Hope”, then going right into “The Glory”. Also Eugene Rogan “The Arabs: A History” (nonfiction).
Finished “Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism” by Goodwin and “Do Not Ask What Good We Do” by Robert Draper. Now I’m re-reading some of my dad’s old “Flashman” books.
bfl
Arab Winter - Coming to America
The Gift of Infallibility
“Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in New Mexico History” by Sam Lowe
A surprisingly short book.
I’ve been reading the Stephanie Barron books. You could call them The Jane Austen Mysteries. They’re cute. It’s basically like fan fiction wherein Jane Austen is a sort of Miss Marple or J.B. Fletcher who goes around helping solve crimes between working on drafts of her own novels. They’re actually fairly believable, because Jane stays very much in the character one would imagine: carefully drawing others out over tea, observing quietly in ballrooms, consulting solicitors who can then write the necessary letters (because a lady can’t write to just anyone). I quite like them.