Bookclub

I just finished “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien. It’s a series of haunting (and sometimes poetic) stories from the author’s experiences as an American soldier during the Vietnam War.

I just started “Because Our Fathers Lied” by Craig McNamara. It’s about his growing up in the shadow of his father, Robert MacNamara, a Secretary of Defense and one of the architects of the Vietnam War (which the son and his friends were opposed to).

My backlog is digital, since the only way I’ll end up actually getting reading done these days is if it’s on my phone. If I hear about something interesting (usually either an NPR interview or mentioned online), I’ll either buy ebooks for Kindle (if they’re on sale) or obtain epub/mobi’s from other sources. I try not to do this too often, since it takes me a while to get through things. I think I have a dozen or so items in the backlog at the moment.