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NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #10 of #GMGreads. Every night through this weird time, I'm tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and links to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
I'm hoping over the quarantine to read George Packer's OUR MAN, about Richard Holbrooke, and I love what I'd call "investigative biographies," books that mix the writer and the quest to understand a subject. So here are my favorites, with my hometown indie @bearpondbooks:
1) Anyone who hasn't read Casey Cep's (@cncep) FURIOUS HOURS, about Harper Lee and the murder case she hoped would be her own IN COLD BLOOD, please drop everything you're doing and go get it: bearpondbooks.com/book/978110194…
2) RANGER GAMES, by Ben Blum (@benzblum), didn't get a lot of attention when it came out, but it was an excellent read—a tale of how a family member ended up in the midst of a bank robbery: bearpondbooks.com/book/978080416…
3) Kai Bird (@kaibird123) wrote an amazing biography, THE GOOD SPY, about one of the most important-and-least known US intelligence operatives of the last half century, Robert Ames, who was killed in the Beirut embassy bombing: bearpondbooks.com/book/978030788…
4) Shane Harris' (@shaneharris) THE WATCHERS is a great tale of the rise of American surveillance and the career of Admiral John Poindexter: bearpondbooks.com/book/978014311…
5) I thought Matt Bai's (@mattbai) ALL THE TRUTH IS OUT was one of the best books on politics of the last decade, tracing a direct line from Gary Hart to our modern circus. It really made me think about what the modern media has wrought: bearpondbooks.com/book/978030747…
Those are tonight's #GMGreads. What great biographies books have you read? I'll order one of your suggestions from @bearpondbooks myself. What are your favorite indie bookstores? Share! #avidreadersunite
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NIGHTLY READING THREAD: We made it! It's Friday and welcome to Edition #12 of #GMGreads. Every night through this weird time, I'm tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
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