NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #58 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....
Before diving in, I want to say how sad I was by news @simonschuster CEO Carolyn Reidy passed away. She was a giant, a wonderful leader, and a loving reader. Readers may have never known her name, but she made all of our literary lives richer.
Anyway, I read this weekend @underwaterlance's new history of the Confederate submarine Hunley—a wonderful book, filled with fun characters and science—so tonight thought I'd share some books that mix boats and history: bookshop.org/books/in-the-w…
1) Paul Hendrickson's HEMINGWAY'S BOAT is incredibly eloquent, a biography of the writer told through his relationship with the water and his boat Pilar: bookshop.org/books/hemingwa…
2) Sara Vladic (@surfinsara) and Lynn Vincent's masterful history INDIANAPOLIS, about the tragic sinking of the famed battleship, is so beautiful that I literally choked up in one scene: bookshop.org/books/indianap…
3) Lucy Jago's NORTHERN LIGHTS mixes the science of the Aurora Borealis with the quest of the man who solved their mystery: bookshop.org/books/the-nort…
4) If you've somehow made it this far in life and never read ENDURANCE, the wild story of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic adventure, man I don't know about your priorities: bookshop.org/books/enduranc…
5) Evan Thomas's biography JOHN PAUL JONES tells the story of the the "founder" of the US Navy and the dawn of America's nautical ambitions : bookshop.org/books/john-pau…
Those are tonight's #GMGReads. What are you favorite nautical books? Share! #avidreadersunite
