I"ve started "Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed my Life." I was drawn to it because the author was in her 30s when she had the stroke and I was curious about how the brain injury impacted her. The thing is, so far the book is...confusing? She jumps back and forth in time, but in a disjointed way. I don't know if it's my brain injury or hers ( :LOL: ), but it feels like a more difficult/unenjoyable read than it should be.

Missed the :corner:

I've given up on this one. :shrug:

Currently reading Bad Blood about the Theranos scam. Great read, moves quickly and some incredible anecdotes.

EDIT; Finished bad blood. So good. Honestly fantastic.

This month also read:
Atomic Habits - good!
Silence (by Erling Kagge) - not bad!
Along the Road to Soweto - not great!
The Purpose of Power (by Alicia Garza) - pretty good!
Work Won’t Love You Back (by Sarah Jaffe) - not fun, but very prescient

:thud: Wish I had the capacity to get through that many books in a month! :bow: :bow:

Gotta read Red pretty soon by Sammy.

Catching up on my Hot Rod magazines.

Reading Red by Sammy Hagar:thumbup:

A research article about Two-Eyed Seeing. Really interesting.

I got about 20 pages left of Sammy's book.

Recently read:

The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins. About US anti-communist policy and the death that follow in its path, even in ‘peaceful’ coups. Extremely good, fairly quick read.

The Longing for Less by Kyle Chayka. Touches on minimalism, its roots in art and music, its influence on architecture, and its distant predecessors. Quite good.

Do Not Disturb by Michela Wrong. Excellent hybrid of true crime, history, and international politics on the small circle that changed the Great Lakes region of Africa and has used western governments and media to whitewash their human rights abuses.

On a hot streak of good books.

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

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. :shrug:

Better off Dead by Lee Child and Andrew Child (jack reacher story)

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Brene Brown’s Rising Strong. Haven’t touched it in about a week though.

All the Light we Cannot See. Not my usual genre but I’m flying through it. :shrug:

Bazar of Bad dreams by Stephen King. It was so-so.

I heard they're making a movie so I'll check that out.


Now I'm reading On a Cold Road: Tales in Canadian Rock. It's by Dave Bidini of the Rheostatics, who I saw play back in the day. So far it's funny and interesting, and I love reading about random little towns across the country.

The Institute by Stephen King it is very looooong.

Surrender by Bono

Tripwire by Lee Child.

Anyox - The Town That Got Lost by Pete Louden

New Reacher novel?

It is actually an old one I think the third in the series. It's pretty good.

Have you been watching the Reacher series?

No I don’t get the channel that it is on.

Just finished Calling My Spirit Back by Elaine Alec and started The Moral Injury Workbook.

Robert Crais The FIrst Rule

Mark Manson’s Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope.

I’m only a few chapters in but will say he’s committed to referencing things!

Off the Beaten Track: Women Adventurers and Mountaineers in Western Canada by Cyndi Smith

Just finished As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl. Compelling and heartbreaking.

Continuing with the theme of heartbreaking, I’m now reading Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid. I think I’ll go with something a little lighter for my next read!

Gold, Grit, Guns: Miners on BC’s Fraser River in 1858. So far it seems well referenced including an appendix detailing the ships that transported miners.

Paris: The Memoir. Pretty good - I have a lot of respect for her. This was the first time I did the audiobook thing…and my brain isn’t really a fan of it.

Only have a few chapters left of The Woman in Me by Britney. That is one resilient human!

A few chapters into Weave as a River by local author Joan Conway. So far so good. :thumbup:

My Life Story.


It hasn’t ended yet.

I just started Sinead O'Connor's Rememberings.

If it bleeds by Stephen King. It’s 4 novellas.

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

Just finished Paradise City by Archer Mayor which was his typical style book and was good. Some friends recommended the new Dennis Lebanese book Small Mercies so I ordered that today.

Just finished Paste Tense by Lee Child’s, a Jack Reacher story it was good. Started small mercies by Dennis Lehane so far pretty good.

I'm reading work notes from a meeting I lead earlier today.

This :corner:

Got a Hagerty Drivers club mag. going.

I recently discovered the Hagerty YouTube channel and have watched a few interesting videos.

The Invisible Leash by Patrice Karst :cry: