Today’s TTT is the last ten books we DNFed, but I’m picky about the books I pick up and don’t DNF very often. So, I’m going to wander off the reservation a bit and go with “The Last Ten Books I Previewed on Kindle”. But first, the Tuesday Tease, from The Last Republicans: Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

During those later academic experiences in the Northeast, [George W. Bush] would come to know the children of privilege whose identities were tied up in their family’s wealth and social positions, which engendered a sense of entitlement. His disdain for them—or anyone who was putting on airs, for that matter—came from the West Texas lens through which he saw the world. Among them he would often wield his West Texas persona defiantly. When he was four, his father wrote of him, “Georgie has grown to be a near-man, talks dirty once in a while and occasionally swears. He lives in cowboy clothes.” As he got older, not much changed. At Harvard Business School in the mid-1970s, he would strut around Cambridge in his National Guard flight jacket, beat-up Levi’s, and cowboy boots, a wad of chewing tobacco stuffed in his cheek that he would spit into the paper cup he clutched in his hand. Amid the ivy-strewn environs, his incongruous demeanor asserted, “I’m not one of you. I’m a Texan.”

And now, last ten Kindle previews!

How to Forget: A Daughter’s Memoir, Kate Mulgrew.

The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham

Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded, Ron Kessler.

My Life as an Astronaut, Alan Bean

Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays, Paul Kingsnorth. Kingsnorth combines Orthodox spirituality & ecology. He has a substack called “The Abbey of Misrule“.

Write it When I’m Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford, Thomas DeFrank

An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West, Konstantin Kisin

Your Table is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maitre D’, Michael Cocchi-Azzolina

Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City, Amanda Kolson Hurley

The Call of the Weird, Louis Theroux. Amusing this is the only one of these samples I’ve actually looked at as yet…