What are you reading 2017?

[JaneV2.0]

Thanks for the review, Gardenarian. I'm in queue for the ebook at my library. I'm ready for a well-written mystery.

[Yppej]

I got a new batch of library books since next weekend is a long one.

More Than Just Making It: Hope for the Heart of the Financially Frustrated should have some frugal tips.

Radio Free Vermont, a novel by Bill McKibbin.

Sherman Alexie's memoir You Don't Have to Say You Love Me.

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.

Two travelogue books of less interest but I will see if they strike my fancy - White Mountain:
A Cultural Adventure Through the Himalayas and Happiness to Meet You: Foolishly, Blissfully Stranded in Vietnam.

And someone lent me Not Under Forty by Willa Cather.

[JaneV2.0]

Masochist that I am, I'm listening to the audible download of Insane Clown President, by Matt Taibbi. It's a collection of his dispatches from the election trenches. It's well written, well narrated, and very, very depressing.

[dado potato]

Thunderstruck, by Erik Larsen.
Also listening to the audiobook late at night.

[Ultralight]

I am reading Gertrude by Hermann Hesse.

Seems like a good book so far. I have become a rather big fan of Hesse over the past year or two.

Thought I'd like to read a sci-fi space adventure next -- something lighter emotionally.

[jp1]

As for what I've recently finished reading, probably the most interesting was Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. I've long thought I would like to hike the Appalachian Trail from one end to the other. And then I learned that there's a similar trail here on the west coast from the Mexico boarder in California to the Canada border in Washington. It appears to be a much more intense, and less done, trail. Tucked away in my bucket list is hiking it once I retire but before i get too old and decrepit to manage such a challenge.

[KayLR]

As for what I've recently finished reading, probably the most interesting was Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. I've long thought I would like to hike the Appalachian Trail from one end to the other. And then I learned that there's a similar trail here on the west coast from the Mexico boarder in California to the Canada border in Washington. It appears to be a much more intense, and less done, trail. Tucked away in my bucket list is hiking it once I retire but before i get too old and decrepit to manage such a challenge.

jp1, check out this blog by a local guy who hiked the Triple Crown in one year in 2016. I went to listen to him lecture and our newspaper followed his whole trip.
http://freeoutside.com/
http://freeoutside.com/calendar-triple-crown/

His photos are stupendous. He is a fascinating, but understated and humble person---the hike changed him profoundly. Either it did, or it's just really taking a long time for him to adjust to the real world.

I can't wait for his book to come out. I followed him on Instagram too.

[nswef]

JP, the book Wild was my first "trail book". It inspired my friend to start doing the Appalachian Trail-she's done all of PA, MD, WV and is trying to figure out how to do VA- which is over 500 miles. I just read the Appalachian Trail books.

[Lainey]

"The Best of Us" by Joyce Maynard. She's in her early 60s and had a late in life second marriage. Her husband was diagnosed with cancer about one year into the marriage. I've enjoyed her writing for years (both novels and earlier memoirs) and this is just as thoughtfully written and moving as her other works.

[iris lilies]

"The Story of Us" by Joyce Maynard. She's in her early 60s and had a late in life second marriage. Her husband was diagnosed with cancer about one year into the marriage. I've enjoyed her writing for years (both novels and earlier memoirs) and this is just as thoughtfully written and moving as her other works.

have we talked about Maynard here once before? Her first novel was Baby Love, a sharply observed little story about a teenage mother. I liked that book a lot. (I am now at the age where I can remember when I read 37 years ago, but I don’t remember what I read three months ago.) anyway I kind of lost track of her for a couple decades until she surfaced as JD Salinger‘s teenage lover and that whole saga. So I have followed her a bit off And on since then.