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I just finished J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.
Vance combines an unabashed love of his cultural home with a deep look at its current status and an unflinching critique of its failings. He clearly puts himself within that culture and examines his own role in where it finds itself today, and despite the fact that he's 'escaped' - he's a Yale Law grad - he knows that the culture lives within him and welcomes it. Very heartfelt all around.
Not the most profound work, but a welcome one nonetheless.
The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis. An excellent book, on how the federal government works for civilians, & how it does it. Others have covered it here, but it's well worth reading.
My audio books are The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, by Cara Santa Maria, and I'm halfway through. I don't think I have really learned anything from it, but it's a good reminder on using critical thinking skills and staying skeptical of things I read, or see.
Also, on audio Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng. Usually I have trouble following fiction on audio but this one is easy listening. I'm about half way through and think there are some important lessons that will be shared by the end.
New library book is Everything Trump Touches Dies, by Rick Wilson. Just started it. I don't think it will be informative per se.... but it IS funny, and I will watch/listen to anything I find funny, even if I disagree with it. I like that is is written by a staunch Republican. Some of the insults are downright Shakespearean in composition.
Everything I Never Told You and Ng's second book, Little Fires Everywhere have been optioned for movies. Rick Wilson's book is highly entertaining. He's very insightful and funny on CNN.
I finished Miracle Creek by Angie Kim because her writing was compared to Celeste Ng. It was a compelling story with several well drawn characters. Ng’s books have fewer characters. The story revolves around autistic children, a form of treatment and a trial.
I think it was worth reading. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/b...angie-kim.html
This was a 4 star read for me even though I had to soldier on reading in some war parts of it.
Of course, I always love the references to a love of books...
"I've always imagined paradise as something like a library. Now I know what it looks like."
"For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind. And this mind was noble in its reach, wide in its interests, discerning it its tastes."
Geraldine Brooks is one of my favorite authors. I’ve read all three of her recently published books. March and Year of Wonder are on my TBR list.
Superbugs : the race to stop an epidemic / Matt McCarthy, c2019, Penguin Random House, 616.9041 MCCA.
Subjects
• Drug resistance in microorganisms.
• Antibiotics -- Research.
• Bacteria.
Summary
• "A New York Times bestselling author shares this exhilarating story of cutting-edge science and the race against the clock to find new treatments in the fight against the antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as superbugs"-- Provided by publisher.
The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis. An excellent book, on how the federal government works for civilians, & how it does it. Others have covered it here, but it's well worth reading.
Can't recommend this book enough. He made government interesting to me, and I learned bunches.
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I just finished J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.
Vance combines an unabashed love of his cultural home with a deep look at its current status and an unflinching critique of its failings. He clearly puts himself within that culture and examines his own role in where it finds itself today, and despite the fact that he's 'escaped' - he's a Yale Law grad - he knows that the culture lives within him and welcomes it. Very heartfelt all around.
Not the most profound work, but a welcome one nonetheless.
If you liked that, I also highly recommend Glass House and Janesville. White Trash is also excellent.
I started and finished Commander in Cheat in one day. It was a very fast read. Kind of snarky and fun, but I felt like I was reading The Star or some low-class journalism for the most part, with all the insults thrown in. (Not that they were undeserved, just not really needed.)
I started Other Minds, another one about octopuses, but I'm thinking I probably need to read one of my library books. I may read Hattiesburg, which I've now renewed a couple of times and is due at the end of the month.
I finished this one in 2 days flat...I can't understand the low reviews on Amazon, as I am giving it 5 Stars! The book is both wacky and at the same time brilliant!
As mesmerizing and brilliantly imagined novel, Anna North's "American Pacifica" shows a future world with uncanny similarities to our own, and what a young woman must do to survive in a forever altered landscape.
"Anna North's fluid prose moves this story along with considerable force and velocity. The language in "America Pacifica" seeps into you, word by word, drop by drop, until you are saturated in the details of this vivid and frightening world". - Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.
Couldn't agree more with this review, this book drew me in big time!
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