FIRE WEATHER, John Vailliant
Top 10 NY Times book of 2023. Deeply detailed account of a massive forest fire that destroyed Ft. McMurray in Alberta, the largest oil producing city in Canada, in 2016. Compelling, but too long for a nonfiction book. Should have been a New Yorker article.
Jan. 30, 2024
NIGHT, Elie Wiesel
Ooof. Fucking nazi bastards. Don’t skip the Nobel speech at the end.
Jan. 26, 2024
RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA by Arthur C. Clarke
Needed a break. One of my all-time favorite sci-fi books, but not nearly as good as I remembered. I hear they’re making it into a movie.
Jan. 24, 2024
THE POWER BROKER by Robert Caro
Deep dive into the use of political power by one of the all-time great biographers. Long, but worth the time and effort.
January 22, 2024
MIDNIGHT AT CHERNOBYL by Adam Higginbotham
Second read. Technical and deeply reported, stunning in scope, yet highly approachable and readable. Reads like a novel.
January 10, 2024
Maus I and Maus II by Art Spiegelman
Continuing the anti-Semitism theme. Hadn’t read Maus in years and was quickly pulled in again, and as stunned as I was years ago.
January 5, 2024
The Wizard of Lies, Diana Henriques
I felt the need to read reported nonfiction, and with both Trump’s financial fraud and unbounded anti-Semitism in the news, why not look back at the story of the man who ran the largest Ponzi scheme in America history, targeting his fellow Jews.
Jan. 2, 2024
Michael Sinert 