Struggling to finish Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden. Not because it’s not enjoyable but because it’s hard to concentrate.

 

Woke up this Morning by Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa.

 

Billy Summers by Stephen King so far it's so-so but I'm only about a quarter of the way in I heard that it picks up in the middle.

 

My favorites since I last posted are:

Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill

Beautifully Grotesque Fish of the American West by Mark Spitzer

The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup by Evan Hughes

The Arsonists’ City by Hala Alyan

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Doctor Socrates by Andrew Downie

Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

 

Did they come to any conclusions in this book as to why people believe what they believe?

 

There is no one concrete path, but I think the book does a good job introducing why people may be susceptible, why it is tricky to get them out of conspiratorial thinking, and how people fall into the rabbit holes.

 

Rick Mercer’s autobiography Talking to Canadians. It’s pretty funny so far, which I expected.

 

Finishing up Mark Seal’s “Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli” about the making of The Godfather. It is really quite good.

I really enjoyed Hala Alyan’s novel Salt Houses.

Win At All Costs, by Matt Hart, about Nike’s Oregon Project, its doping scandals, and more was great.

Those are some of my recent favorites.

 

I've been reading The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly. It's a Lincoln Lawyer story it's not too bad I'm more than 3/4 through it.

 

To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles and the Climax of the Age of Exploration.

I’m about halfway through and find it fascinating. I can’t wrap my head around the harshness of conditions no matter how hard I try.