You Can Make It by Jim Bakker. I’m halfway through and cannot stop reading it. I started earlier today.
Finished listening to The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth. A good psychological drama with a very surprising twist at the end.
Next up: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.
Finished Clarkesworld: Year Twelve - Volume One, edited by Neil Clarke and Sean Wallace, of which the best stories were “The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon” by Finbarr O’Reilly, “Who Won the Battle of Arsia Mons?” by Sue Burke, and “Umbernight”, by Carolyn Ives Gilman. I wouldn’t be surprised if Burke’s story became a movie someday. I’d watch it.
Now I’m reading The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, by A. J. Jacobs. (The author decides to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.)
Finished The Water-Method Man, by John Irving. The trials and tribulations of a man born with a dysfunctional urinary tract. Good, but not among his best works. Only his second novel, published 50 years ago, in it you can sort of see the seeds of his true classics – The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules. It’s almost like he was in training for those. As with much of his work, wrestling and Vienna play no small part.
This week, I will start The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family, by Ron Chernow, one of my favorite historians and another of his sizable tomes.
Currently reading two fairly slow books, and alternating for a change of pace!
I’m nearing the end of The Romans in Scotland, and the Battle of Mons Graupius by Simon Forder. (Mons Graupius was a battle which nobody knows the location of - guesses range from Morayshire all the way to Tayside and Perthshire but the author hasn’t quite declared his guess yet!) It should have been an important victory for Rome but Imperial politics necessitated the withdrawal from the North shortly afterwards and any opportunity for consolidating their gains was lost.
And for fiction I’m half way through John Crowley’s latest, Flint and Mirror, a historical fantasy set in Ireland in the time of Queen Elizabeth the 1st and the Spanish Armada. Very good but, as with most Crowley, not a light read. Lots of Irish in-fighting, alchemy and the sidhe interfering!
Finished reading Jules Verne’s The Family Without a Name. I knew before I read it that I didn’t know enough about Canada’s history, but now I realize that I know even less than I thought I did.
Also, the book was evidently entered by a computer scan of a text somewhere, because the text is filled with typos of the kind no human being would make if they were coping the book, but which not-up-to-par Optical Character Recognition would. Twice the word “he” is rendered as “lie”. A real person would’ve corrected that.
No I’m halfway through Verne’s The Green Ray
Started this morning on Black Tide by K.C. Jones, a sci-fi novel about the end of the world. So far so good, although the protagonist is really annoying, the kind of person who forgets they’re supposed to be watching a dog. If that dog doesn’t survive the apocalypse, I’m gonna be mad.
Finished The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, by A. J. Jacobs. Mostly meh, with a few interesting facts from the Encyclopaedia Britannica. I did like one part: after the author’s father calculated the speed of light in fathoms per fortnight, the author figured it out in knots per nanosecond.
Now I’m reading Sonya Singh’s novel Sari, Not Sari.
The Great Reset, Joe Biden and the Rise of 21st centure Fascism. By Glenn Beck.
Finished Verne’s The Green Ray and have started his Cesar Cascabel
At the advice of someone here, I’m reading the Percy Jackson series. It’s young adult fiction set in a world where the Greek gods are real, and running around having sex with humans (off stage, since it’s ya fiction). Percy is a demigod.
Good series. I’ve read the first two books (and seen the movies based on them), in part because “percy” jackson is really named Perseus, and is, like that other Perseus, a son of Zeus. I’ve got a deep personal interest in Perseus that I can tell you about sometime.
The movie version features a pretty good CGI Medusa, which used to be rare but is now becoming very common (as in the remake of Clash of the Titans and various TV commercials, not to mention “Celia” is Monsters, Inc. (sorta))
I finished The Second Sleep by Robert Harris. An interesting premise, set in a backward, quasi-medieval England some 800 years after the dimly-remembered collapse of our modern technological society. It was a good read most of the way through, but I was disappointed by the ending.
Just started On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder, a short but engaging book about how we can all, forewarned and forearmed, help preserve democracy.
Finished Black Tide, it was all right. Things were pelagic, alien, hideous, tentacled, etc.
And did the dog die? He got hurt, then died “off screen”.
Was anything either squamous or rugose?
Well, the stuff that wasn’t sinuous or tenebrous, you know. 
Just finished:
Bloodstained Sea: The U.S. Coast Guard in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1941-1944, by Michael G Walling
Now reading:
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, by Steve Brusatte
Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines’ Finest Hour in Vietnam, by Gregg Jones
Next up:
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France, by Caroline Moorehead
Someone put a copy of Mike Lindells book in the lobby. Im going to try and read it.
Just finished Network Effect by Martha Wells. The mystery was interesting and I really love her characters as well as the direction she’s taking the story. Somebody send Murderbot the Rage Against the Machine discography 
Finished Sonya Singh’s novel Sari, Not Sari. It was okay.
Now I’m reading See What I’m Saying: The Extraordinary Powers of Our Five Senses, by Lawrence D. Rosenblum.