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What books do you want to read?

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Joe Posnanski wrote a book titled Why We Love Baseball, which I read a couple of years ago. I see he’s written one about football, so I’ll have to pick that one up at some point. I’m hoping he treats other sports, because I’d probably read them all.

I’m not in the mood for anything too heavy– we get enough heaviness and opinion on a daily basis just turning on the TV or going online. But every now and then a good bio comes out, like Jon Meacham’s And There Was Light, about Abraham Lincoln, and I am curious enough to either get it on Kindle or pick it up at the library.

Revisiting a classic every now and then is worth the time. I started The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway, a while back, but still have a ways to go.

Daily writing prompt

What books do you want to read?

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Preferably nonfiction, though I’d still like to cross War and Peace off my “to read” list.

At the moment, I’m reading Barack Obama’s first volume, A Promised Land, and it has taken a while to get through. Until I finish it, I’m only perusing the new titles at the library (we sometimes stop after going to the Y) but not taking anything home. This one needs my undivided attention.

What sometimes happens is that I will borrow from the library or download books from Prime and read them on my iPad, but then I end up ordering my own hard copies so I can underline and otherwise mark them up.

I try and mix up the genres of nonfiction, having recently read Jim Bouton’s classic Ball Four for the first time, along with another baseball book by Joe Posnanski; books by Adam Higginbotham, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Rachel Maddow, and Jon Meacham. I think I’ll probably look for Pete Buttigieg’s most recent offering– Trust— next, but only after finishing the Obama tome.