Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is, what’s something we’d like to know more about? ….well, everything. You know when we’re children, we pester adults with question after question — what’s that? What’s that? Why does it do this? What does that do that? Where does this come from? That part of me never shut up. It’s the reason I have a book on ‘urban infrastructure’ that covers things like transformers, and why I will happily spend several hours digging around on the internet archive looking for answers to what the cryptic string ‘sept24d1m” means. (It means “run this ad in every daily paper for one month.“) It’s why I listen watch doctors dissect tv shows, or why yesterday I spent time digging through the Alabama League of Municipalities, which is a group for city attorneys. I just want to know everything about everything!
WHAT have you finished reading recently? I’m more or less done listening to Decision Points by George W. Bush, and before that I re-listened to In the Arena by Richard Nixon.
WHAT are you reading now? I paused Kennedy and Nixon for a moment to begin Maverick, a biography of Thomas Sowell which I’m enjoying enormously. I’ve begun listening to George H.W. Bush and family read a collection of his letters, which is a lot more interesting than it sounds. I’ll probably finish Maverick today.
WHAT are you reading next? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, full cast audio edition, just dropped yesterday!
Reading Freely 
😂 I was also one of those very inquisitive kids! What my parents wouldn’t have given for Google back in the day haha.
Oh man… I remember checking out Decision Points from the library, back in the day. Never got around to reading it though.
The HW Bush letters sound good. I think you can usually get a better sense of a celeb or historical figure’s humanity through their personal correspondence.
Looking forward to reviews on both!
DP is…kind of boring, to be honest. It’s definitely a ‘history of why I chose these policies’ book rather than a memoir/biography. The only chapters I enjoyed were on his drinking and 9/11. I’m going to finish off the last chapter last night and see if my review needs tweaking. Right now it’s almost all about 9/11 and the terror war.
The George HW Bush book is LOVELY. HW was my first president that I remember (I was born in the Reagan years) and I have an instinctive regard for him, but the personality he’s showing off here makes him more enjoyable. He had an unexpected sense of humor — when his mother wrote him fearing that his sister had been ‘necking’ with some boy, he wrote her a letter on the mores of his generation and hers, and then signed it, “Dr. George HW Bush, Sexologist”. And this when he was a 20 year old in the middle of WW2!
I’m really impressed by your American reading list.
Last #book I finished: Arsène #Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, by #MauriceLeblanc #Amreading: The Chinese Bell Murders (#JudgeDee), by #RobertvanGulik #Amlistening to: Le Crime du paradis, by #GuillaumeMusso
#TBR Reading next: The Blind Woman of Sorrento, by #FrancescoMastriani
What Do We Want to Know? EVERYTHING!
When Do We Want to Know It? NOW!!! [lol]
I’m like this, too! Learning stuff is amazing.
Thanks for stopping by earlier.