Which books are you reading during this 2020 pandemic?

What Hath God Wrought

Functional Pottery: Form and Aesthetic in Pots of Purpose
by Robin Hopper
I can’t wait for the movie

The Road to Wellville by T. Coraghessan Boyle

“Will Lightbody is a man with a stomach ailment whose only sin is loving his wife, Eleanor, too much. Eleanor is a health nut of the first stripe, and when in 1907 she journeys to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg’s infamous Battle Creek Spa to live out the vegetarian ethos, poor Will goes too.”

“So begins T. Coraghessan Boyle’s wickedly comic look at turn-of-the-century fanatics in search of the magic pill to prolong their lives – or the profit to be had from manufacturing it. Brimming with a Dickensian cast of characters and laced with wildly wonderful plot twists, Jane Smiley in The New York Times Book Review called The Road to Wellville “a marvel, enjoyable from beginning to end.”

I just finished Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives by Walt Odets. I reread it. Superb book. I’m now 2 chapters into rereading The Velvet Rage, a book about gay men and the shame indoctrinated into us. Before bed, I’m reading the complete world’s of Virginia Woolf.

I’m still reading the book I started before covid-19 changed the world: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William Shirer (1960). At 1250 pages, it’s going to take me a while.

(Last week I got a message from the library saying don’t bother to bring your books back for the time being.)

This is a particularly chilling time to be reading it, especially since it’s about a man who lied, bullied, manipulated and betrayed people, created crises, and took advantage of social disasters to put himself at the apex of power.

I also have some lighter reading going on the side. For comfort reading, I love cozy mysteries. In the end, you have all the answers, everything is put right, and justice is done. I’d call them the stuffed animals of the literary world.

Withering Shites
A little known piece about the perils of a curry supper combined with alcohol.

@Jeruba I call them my Mac n Cheese reading. I just read Louise Penny’s Still Life, and plan on more Inspector Gamache shenanigans soon.

Just started Apropos of Nothing. Humor. Humor is good.

I’m near half finished reading UNLIKEABLE The Problem With Hillary by Edward Klein

https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/linux-bundle-with-wiley

I just bought the 8 dollar bundle the other night. I mostly bought it for Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible. I have been getting into bash scripts lately. Now that I am older I want to automate everything.

Outbreak, a 1987 thriller by Robin Cook.

Atticus by Ron Hansen

Right now I am reading Disneywar. It’s about how Micheal Eisner did with the Disney Company and such. Big book and very informative.

@nightwolf5 Wondering whether he sought out to buy Marvel or it was offerred to Disney?

@mazingerz88 If it’s in there, I haven’t read about that quite yet. I’m only about a quarter through the book thus far. I too wondered that.