What Are You Reading?

Ran through and loved the nonfiction book The Art Thief.



(What a terrible cover, given a million options in this case.)

I don't even know much about art, but this kid (kids, really, a dude and his girlfriend) made hundreds of thefts throughout much of Europe, mainly in the 1990's. The book gets better and better, all the way into the multiple court cases. Author got great access to many of the main characters. Hard to believe it's real.

Here's the main character in one of his trials.

 

This is about the massive heist I'm thinking of, right?

Either if so or if not, you are correct in that may be the worst book cover ever

 

Not one massive heist. Hundreds of quiet ones that netted about $2B in art, just stashed away. Crazypants story.

 

Just started one of my Christmas books:

 

House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)

Again. Such an amazing book.

 

picked up the Melville book, started it yesterday. I'm kind of a sucker for literary biographies.

 

I'd somehow forgotten about this one until my relative gave me her copy and said "you need to read this"...

so now it's next on the list

 

I enjoyed that series quite a bit. Read that last year on a Kindle Unlimited Blitz.

 

Now that McCammon has finally published the final book of the Matthew Corbett series, I'm starting at the beginning and reading all 10 straight through. He published the first book in 2007, and I'm really looking forward to seeing how it ends. Matthew Corbett is a kind of Sherlock Holmes\James Bond set in Colonial American in the early 1700's.

 

Interested to hear what you think. I liked the latter parts of it but struggled with the first half. (Like, okay, we get it. Jim was actually smart and being a slave was actually horrible.) But throughout, the line to line writing is top notch.

 

Thanks for the recommendation. That one sounds good to me.

 

I’ve been in the mood for some mindless junk lately , so have reading some Carl Hiassen novels. Strip Tease currently.

 

I just got Steve King, "You Like It Darker" new short story hardback. I hope it's good, I tend to like his stories more than his novels.

 

I agree on that. It has a cujo sequel story
In it!

 

Brandon Sanderson’s - The Way of Kings.


Great so far Half way through. Going to be a great series. Glad to be reading some fiction again.

 

Finished it last weekend. Got it for Christmas and stretched it out. Yer gonna like it, the old man still got it.

 

The 4 agreements by Miguel. Amazing self growth book that repairs the way you think Definitely a must read right now with all the spamming media negativity. Make your mind immune to all the bs.

 

You're wife is smart.

A trick of mine is to skim alot of books at Barnes and Noble and then order the book online. There's a lot authors that I don't connect with.