What books are you reading right now?

I've been on a much longer than usual non-reading bender. Not books, that is.

I bought a few recently, because they interest me, I can live with the prices, & I'm not sure when I'll get around to reading them.

Waging Heavy Peace by Neil Young is the first I'm going to attempt. I say attempt because the reviews are decidedly mixed, & I'm not sure if what Neil does away from music will be interesting to me.

 

I latched onto a series of graphic novels that is sort of like the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen called The Chimera Brigade (which is of frustrating because I have a novel with a similar title I've been working on and now I'll have to come up with something else).
The Brigade is made up of European comic and literary pulp characters rather than English or American with a few real people thrown in for good measure like Madame Curie (I really do love that they made her a superhero.)
It's out of print so chasing down all three copies took a bit but it was worth it.

 

C. S. Lewis "Surprised by Joy"
xoxoxoo

 

Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky

 

BLOOD MONEY by Peter Schweizer. An expose on how China influences American politicians (spoiler alert--money plays a big part). Schweizer brings the receipts, and it's infuriating.

AVOR

 

FULL THROTTLE (LIFE AND TIMES OF CURTIS TURNER) by Robert Edelstein

 

Since We Fell, by Dennis LeHane.

I like Lehane's writing, I've read quite a few of his novels. The problem so far with SWF is I'm on page 63 & I still don't understand why Rachel Childs is so determined to find the identity of her real father. Something really interesting needs to happen real soon.

 

World War Z by Max Brooks. The only thing it has in common with the movie, is the title.

 

The best audio book I have ever listened to.

 

As somebody who has a bio-dad out there someplace (or maybe not, they could be dead by now), I have a take on this that is a little different than most peoples.
My mom choose not to make him part of our life, so he must not have been that important.
I don't really care.
That drove both my wives and to a certain degree my daughters up the wall.
They are more concerned about family history of disease, cancer, etc. and I get that but nope, I'm not going to go looking.
However, I do know someone who made it their life's goal for a while to track down their bio-family and get to know where she came from.
It was really, deeply important to her and I think that is as valid as my not giving any fucks.

 

I can see why in the real world it could be very important to the adult child, it's just that Lehane hasn't pulled me into the story yet.

 

I'm currently rereading the classic SF novel "Dorsai!" by Gordon R. Dickson.

 

I hate it when as I get nearer the end of a book I can tell the author is either going wrap things up too neatly too quickly, or leave too many open ends. It's usually unsatisfacory either way.