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Book club 📖 What are we reading right now? (Planning related or not)

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I have a reading schedule where I rotate the type of books I read. Type #4 in the rotation for me is to read a book matching these attributes.
 
I read the books from my friend's book club and read Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half and Jeanine Cummins American Dirt - both were amazing
 
RB Cunningham-Graham "With the Jesuits in Paraguay", tales of Portuguese colonies along the Parana River system in mid 1600's.
 
Oh I forgot, I also had that old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx going- another quick, fun read and I think my first Proulx book.
 
At some point in the near future I intend to read Atomic Habits by James Clear
 
Maister said:
At some point in the near future I intend to read Atomic Habits by James Clear
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I read it. Makes sense. The implementation is what always kills me.

I'm in the process of reading The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson by Jeff Pearlman. Wasn't an Auburn fan during his playing days, but really got into sports during that time and was always amazed by his highlight reels. Having lived in two places he spent a good bit of time, you hear a lot of crazy stories about him. The book does a good job dealing with the wild stories that people tell about him. It also does a really good job dealing with his personal life growing up fatherless and poor, dealing with stuttering, being lazy and an introverted jerk at times. Also a good look at being a star high school athlete and the recruiting process in the early 1980s.

Also just started Fairy Tale by Stephen King. Haven't gotten far enough to make an opinion, but I'm sure it will be enjoyable.
 
I was reading the latest Longmire book, but Grisham's Boys from Biloxi dropped. I've started reading that and will go back to Longmire when I'm done.
 
Just finished George Saunders' Liberation Day, a dozen short stories, 2022.

Saunders has won a lot of awards, including Man Booker, McArthur, and Guggenheim. His fiction is very imaginative, but often hilarious and bitingly satirical.

BTW he has a novella called Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, that is catalogued as Planning and Zoning, because it makes so much fun of borders and boundaries.
 
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