WHAT have you finished reading recently? 1932, finally. FDR and Hitler are interesting subjects and more so when compared against one another, but the nitty-gritty of party politics is not my cup of tea.
WHAT are you reading now? The Outlier, Kai Bird. So fun fact — someone requested this via ILL, but they haven’t come up to claim it yet so I keep reading it during lunch and..um, may finish it this week if they don’t show up for it.. Also working on The Forgotten Man, a history of the Great Depression. Economic troubles are so in this week, apparently.
WHAT are you reading next? Strong possibility that I’ll revisit Rumble Fish, since I just re-acquired a copy of it this past Saturday while exploring a new-to-me bookstore. I am also looking at a take on the Great Depression from an Austrian economist (not Rothbard; that’s TOO much economics) and trying to decide on FDR biographies. I know and like Brands but Jean Edward Smith keeps bobbing to the top despite the greater page count.
Did you read Hinton as a kid, is that the draw for Rumble Fish?
Yep! Stumbled onto “That Was Then, This is Now” as a teenager and wound up reading it, The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, Tex, and Taming the Star Runner. I owned copies of the first three and re-read them to death, but Rumble Fish disappeared on me at some point. Rumble Fish has this strange melancholy about it, and one of my favorite exchanges – this is paraphrased:
“I wonder why it is that nobody has taken a gun and shot you yet.”
“Every society, no matter how primitive, has an innate respect for the insane.”
Quite inspiring list.
Mine is more casual:
Last #book I finished: La Fille au pair, by #SidonieBonnec
#Amreading: The Reluctant Murderer, by #BerniceCarey
#Amlistening to: A couper le souffle, by #AlexisLaipsker
#TBR Reading next: We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by #ShirleyJackson
I keep hearing about that last one!