Old: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allen Poe
New: An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, Robert Dallek
As for this week's books, I can't say I loved The Rise of Silas Lapham. It was okay, but it repeated itself every 30 pages over and over and over and over. We get it. Nouveau riche. Kid comes a'courtin. And...repeat. Was about 350 pages, and coulda been boiled down to 30. It is the "Braveheart" of novels.
Escaping the Delta was good, but let's be honest, it's hard to fuck up the Robert Johnson story. And I could've done without the first 100 pages of "What Exactly is Blues?" But a great read once it got going.
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