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This one was his 3rd, I've read his 2 previous books (The Upside of Irrationality was the 2nd and Predictably Irrational was the 1st).
The broad topic area of motivation (not our declarative beliefs, but our implicit workings) really draws me in. There are so many books I could recommend (and you may well know of already, such as Malcolm Gladwell & the like), but that would be "off-topic" & there are probably other threads I should instead contribute to about this...
However...one more I'd give big props to is "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman. Took me a month (nearly 500 pgs.) to read & take notes on (my big project this past spring)-exhausting but worth it.
Midge - thanks for sharing your take on In the Garden of the Beasts. BTW, I share your Virginia/south opinion and thought Confederates in the Attic was a good read. I feel like something's on the tip of my brain as a recommendation for you but it's not coming to me right now - will let you know if it makes it!
Does anyone have any recommendations of non-fiction books that read like Midnight? They don't have to be Southern-based, they just have to tell stories of people who live in a town or a region.
I, too, enjoyed "Midnight" though it's been so many years ago now that I don't remember as much as I would like. I thought the movie based on the book was also quite good. (Directed by Clint Eastwood in 1997)
As for regional writings, I "Googled" the phase: "Books set in South Carolina" and got the following link in the results, which is handy because we both use Goodreads: Books Set in South Carolina
I don't know how to access it through the Goodreads interface, but I also did the same search with other locations, like "Italy" and it worked each time.
Midge - thanks for sharing your take on In the Garden of the Beasts. BTW, I share your Virginia/south opinion and thought Confederates in the Attic was a good read. I feel like something's on the tip of my brain as a recommendation for you but it's not coming to me right now - will let you know if it makes it!
I hope you think of it - I'm sure it's a great suggestion! Thanks for thinking of me!
I, too, enjoyed "Midnight" though it's been so many years ago now that I don't remember as much as I would like. I thought the movie based on the book was also quite good. (Directed by Clint Eastwood in 1997)
As for regional writings, I "Googled" the phase: "Books set in South Carolina" and got the following link in the results, which is handy because we both use Goodreads: Books Set in South Carolina
I don't know how to access it through the Goodreads interface, but I also did the same search with other locations, like "Italy" and it worked each time.
Happy reading.
Thank you for the suggestion! I'll have to check out the link. I also want to watch the move of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil to see how it compares with the book. I caught a few snippets of the movie when my husband was watching it on tv once and saw that John Cusack and Kevin Spacey are in it, and I like them both!
I'm reading Gone Girl and understand why everyone says it's a page-turner. It's not a genre I usually read, but I do appreciate how it's put together and will keep reading to see the twists everyone is talking about.
I'm also expecting 4 books through Paperback Swap: The Blackest Bird by Joel Rose; Track of the Cat, by Nevada Barr (both of which I chose based on C-D recs); Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson and The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester.
I love to think about the books making their way through the mail to me.
Rumor of War, Phillip Caputo. Intense. You have to be in the mood to read it for sure.
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