So, what are you reading now?

[icenine]

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by icenine

The second in the trilogy dealing with the complicated war on drugs.

The Power of the Dog
The Cartel
The Border

[Chicks]

Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis.

Nearly 100 years after publication, it's still completely relevant. Sad!

[Chicks]

On the “to read” list: Night of Camp David

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/..._of_Camp_David

“What would happen if the president of the U.S.A. went stark-raving mad?” Back by popular demand, The New York Times calls the 1965 bestselling political thriller by the author of Seven Days in May, “A little too plausible for comfort.”

[finnbow]

"Grant" by Ron Chernow. Quite a tome, but a very good read.

[d-ray657]

"The Soul of Baseball, A Roadtrip through Buck Oneil's America" by Joe Posnaski. I was first introduced to Buck in Ken Burns' great Baseball documentary, and had the good fortune to hear him speak in Kansas City a few times. This portrait of a man who lived through some of the worst racism in America and came through it with no bitterness is a good salve for what we have seen in recent years. As one of the reviewers said, "If your eyes aren't moist after reading this, the air is too dry in you coffin."

Regards,

D-Ray

[finnbow]

"Black Wave" by Kim Ghattas.

A really good and imminently readable book on how the modern day Middle East changed dramatically for the worse due to three events in 1979 - the Iranian revolution, the storming of the mosque at Mecca and the Soviet-Afghan invasion.

[d-ray657]

With no baseball, I'm finding some great baseball writing a solid replacement. An online sports magazine - The Athletic - rivals the writing of Sports Illustrated in its heyday, when it had Dan Jenkins, Roy Blount, Jr., Frank Deford, and Curry Kirkpatrick. My favorite on the Athletic is Joe Posnanski, He just finished a list of his top 100 baseball players of all time, including an essay on each player - some of which were fascinating and others of which are moving. He wrote about the players, warts and all, but based the ranking on the quality of the baseball they played, It is a subscription service, but the Posnanski contributions alone are worth the price.

Having finished that list (which exceeded the word count of Moby Dick), I have four other baseball books going: a Roger Angell collection, Nine Innings by Daniel Okrent, Men at Work by George Will, and Right on Time by Buck O'Neil. Re-watching the Ken Burns baseball series motivated me to find the work of some of the talking heads. These make the quarantine a blessing in disguise, even if they do rob me of the discipline to focus on telework.

Regards,

D-Ray

[d-ray657]

Currently reading "The Accidental President" about Harry Truman's momentous first four months in office. Imagine having a President whose motto was "The buck stops here."

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

Currently reading "The Accidental President" about Harry Truman's momentous first four months in office. Imagine having a President whose motto was "The buck stops here."

Yes, a Trumper coworker recently posted a meme about "A Great Republican President!"...……… It was a quote from Harry S. Truman.LOL!