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What I read: April 2021



LHC #115: "Confederates in the Attic" by Tony Horowitz. Written in 1998, but still very relevant. I didn't realize until I was 20% in that I was reading this during Confederate Heritage month. What a fluke. 

This book gave me an odd moment of rooting for Disney. If, in the early 90's, they had succeeded in building a theme park near Manassas, then maybe they would have made the Disney version of the civil war that could unite America. 

LHC #116: "How Music Works" by David Byrne. So much of this book could just as easily be about writing. 

LHC #117: "Someone who will Love you in all your Damaged Glory" by Raphael Bob-Waksberg. I'm sure it was recommended by someone. I dream of someday catching up to the books on this list, so I can remember when I asked for them, but I feel like it's never going to happen. Some of these were awesome (the one about going to see your brother's play) and some were meh. It's a short story collection, they tend to be like that.  

LHC #118: "My Brilliant Friend" by Elena Ferrante. At my previous job one of my coworkers wanted to have a book club and read this and discuss. I think she'd watched the TV show and thought book clubs were an essential part of middle-class life in North America that she was missing out on? 

It was well done, especially the ending, but not really my thing. 

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