Zachary’s Comments (group member since Jan 22, 2019)

Zachary’s comments from the CPL's Book a Week Challenge group.

I'm finally going to go through the Cormac McCarthy Border Trilogy, starting with All the Pretty Horses. Perhaps not exactly a beach read, but it is for me.

I'm doing #2, reading Curtain Call, and #7 new author for me, Allan Gurganus. Going to try to do #3 too in time for Off The Cuff!

I'm reading the fifth risk by Michael Lewis and it is a great song to dedicated public servants and worth a read. I'm also reading Citizen by Claudia Rankine and a great history book on the Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow Era. Three books all coming off of my "to be read" pile!

The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum from 1980. I've read it, it's good!

for my February I read 5) Big Game by Mark Liebovich and 8) The Strange Career of William Ellis, by Karl Jacoby. Both really interesting!

My weekly reading was a little heavy this time. I read "Not that Bad," Essays on Rape Culture, edited by Roxane Gay. It was a valuable read, but difficult and emotional to read. I found myself putting it down after a couple of essays and having to step away for awhile before tackling it again. At the end of the week, I had bit of a palette cleanser, reading the most recent book (vol.5) of a sci-fi graphic novel series that I highly recommend called "Paper Girls." It begins as a group of teen/tween newspaper delivery girls in 1980s Cleveland suburbs who stumble upon a time portal, and drama ensues. My books for this weekend are a Michael Connelly book (Fifth Witness) and one for Black History Month called the "Strange Career of William Ellis." He escaped Texas as a slave and became a multimillionaire in Mexico.

#4 is done. I read The Personality Brokers, a biography of the inventors of the Meyers-Briggs assessment. A very good read and I learned a lot.