I'm a restless reader of non fiction. Daisy, my darter, asked me last year for my New Year's wish if I would read more fiction but after two in two months I reverted to type and re-started on my never ending piles....
This past week I have read:
** The Obamas: A Mission, A Marriage by Jodi Kantor which was pretty awful. I met Obama in his Chicago HQ's when fighting off Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination in April, 2008. Jack, my son, is hoping to do the same when he spends a week or so there in the summer.
** The Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter which about FDR's First 100 Days which I loved. You have to gulp for breath when you are told over 5000 banks closed down across America as part of the Crash......
I have started to read:
** Saving Nelson Mandela by Kenneth Broun about the Rivonia Trial
** India: A Sacred Geography by Diana Eck which I am loving
** New Aldeburgh Anthology Edited by Ariane Bankes and Jonathan Reekie - which badly needed a designer
and
** Tiger Head Snake Tails by Jonathan Fenby - another belter