Current Reads-1.25

I would like to set up a section for those things that you are currently reading ( or Kindle-ing) . It could be any type of genre, fiction, non-fiction, magazines, blogs, etc, etc. If you want to you can share what you like about it and what drew you to it. 

I will start with an author I just discovered, by the name of 'Frank Conroy' . I came his name in a book I was reading by a Seymour Krim called, "Shake it for the World Smart Ass'. He mentioned Conroy's book titled, "Stop Time', which was true account of the authors growing up in the forties and fifties. It is a well written coming of age novel that seems to sail along as you read it. The second novel I read by the Author is titled, 'Body & Soul'. This is a somewhat fictional book about 'The artist as a young man' and is very interesting, and escpecially if you love music. It is also a period piece of the fifties, that brings in the authors own experience with being a young adult at the time, and what it was like to attend college and hob nob with the rich and powerful. 

I have been enjoying (again) the books of Bill Bryson. If your are not familiar with this author I would suggest you start with 'A Walk in the Woods' and 'In a Sunburned Country', both of these offer great adventure and wit and you will find yourself having so much fun you'll want to read more. Also his book "Almost Everything you need to know..." is a spellbinding read and you willl come away all the more aware of us, the solar system and our own planet earth. 

While spending the summer in Northern Michigan I re-visted some books such as the ‘Letters from Leelanau” by Kathleen Stocking, and ‘True North’ by Jim Harrison, both of whom are Michigan Natives and write about adventures in the state.

Currently I am rereading Windblown World, the journals of Jack Kerouac from the perior 1948-1956. These journal entries cover and intimate look into Jack’s life and writing at the time and gives a very vivid glimpse into the pre ‘On the Road period that was an incubator for the novel. It also covers the period where he published his first novel ‘The Town & the City.