What are You Reading?

[Luv2play]

6 hours ago, Rod Hagen said:

Are the sentences in his letters as Jaw-dropping as in his work?

Yes. And a little more unfiltered. As time went on and his fame and wealth increased he became more secure and some of his less attractive traits came to the surface. 
I wouldn’t want to spend a week with him on safari.

[+ poolboy48220]

On my camping vacation, I just read "The Friend", by Sigrid Nunez, about a writer whose mentor commits suicide and she takes care of his Great Dane. Interesting book, presented as little snippets of her thought that gradually take on a narrative. 

I was also going to read "Etiquette for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F**k", but an unfortunate rain storm soaked it. I'm trying to dry it out right now. 

[Luv2play]

One book I am currently reading is my own which is to be published this fall. I have spent over a year in writing it and the last 3 months in reading proofs. Getting down to the final proof in the next week and hope to have it come out in late September.  
It’s an historical treatise of limited interest but should do alright in the local market. I will do a book launch and it will be featured at our local museum, at which I am the curator. 
It’s my second effort at writing a book. My first was a self published family history. This latest I got a publisher to pay the costs.
Satisfaction at the end of the day but lots of sweat invested in the research and writing. Got to get things right in a historical book as much as possible. 

[+ poolboy48220]

I started Mel Brook's autobiography, "All About Me", last night, I'm about halfway through.  Plenty of smiles and laughs as I was reading. He turns 100 next year.

[+ Charlie]

I am currently reading Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York by Richard M. Ketchum. I think it is probably the best history I have ever read about the origins of the American Revolutionary War. (And believe me, as a former resident of New York, Philadelphia and London, I have read a lot of histories of that period.)

[Danny-Darko]

52 minutes ago, Charlie said:

I am currently reading Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York by Richard M. Ketchum. I think it is probably the best history I have ever read about the origins of the American Revolutionary War. (And believe me, as a former resident of New York, Philadelphia and London, I have read a lot of histories of that period.)

I'll have to look for it. Thanks Charlie! 

Edited 11 hours ago by Danny-Darko

[Decatur Guy]

I'm nearing the end of my third visit with "Stranger in a Strange Land."