Red Cloud and Crazy Horse by Ed McGaa has value as a duel biography because it is written by a Sioux and therefore contains perspectives and information that I have not found elsewhere. I met with Ed last week and he is currently working on his own biography. The writing is uneven, but the subject is compelling.
Unknown by Didier Van Cauwelaet - this French novel is really intriguing. Think of a returning to consciousness after a coma and discovering that someone is occupying your body, using your name, married to your wife. Then discover that your identity has been erased. What do you do? Where do you go? How do you prove you are who you think you are? And then there is the nagging question - are you really who you think you are?
The Man in the Basement, Walter Mosely.
I loved this book. Imagine a rich and famous white guy shows up at a black residence knowing that the owner is single, in terrible debt and in need of cash. Then the man proposes to rent the basement of the house at an outrageous price and to move in to the basement, where he will be literally locked in a cell. What to do? Do you want to be the black man caught with a white man locked up in your basement? Can you afford to turn down his cash?
Cooked by Michael Pollan.
No one writes about food in a more interesting way that Pollan. But of course he does not just write about food - he writes about the people who prepare it, the history of its presentation and the experience he has in duplicating what they did. BBQ, beer making, and sour dough bread are only three of the topics in this book on fire, water, earth, and air - the historic elements of Earth.
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