Just finished East Of Eden 600 pages

I can see why Opel might remember some of it as it's set mostly in the Salinas Valley not far from his stomping grounds.

Next up: The New Middle East - James Gelvin

Nathaniel Philbrick’s THE LAST STAND. Beginning to think that Richard Mulligan’s portrayal of Custer in Little Big Man was pretty spot on.

Just finished Crime and Punishment. Dark stuff. But a great book. And glad I'm done with it.

Recently finished..."A People's History of the United States" - Howard Zinn

"Lincoln's Last Trial" by Dan Abrams and David Fisher ...

Described as "The true story of Abraham Lincoln’s last murder trial, a case in which he had a deep personal involvement—and which played out in the nation’s newspapers as he began his presidential campaign. At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln, who had been involved in more than three thousand cases—including more than twenty-five murder trials—during his two-decades-long career, was hired to defend him. This was to be his last great case as a lawyer."

An interesting read ...

Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Did Tolstoy ever write a short story ?

"The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History"
The gripping true story of the origins of the mafia in America—and the brilliant Italian-born detective who gave his life to stop it

by Stephan Talty

He did.The Death of Ivan Ilyich is about 50 pages.
The guy wrote lots of short stories and stuff like essays, letters, kids books, philosophical things...


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Short_stories_by_Leo_Tolstoy 

Brave New Arctic ~ Mark C. Serreze - global warming, who knew and when?

Failure Is An Option ~ H. Jon Benjamin

Jewish guy with irritable bowel syndrome grows up in Worchester Ma. Frank should read this and would get the jokes better than I did.

gonna look, thanks!

Worcester, by the way..."woostah" woo as in wool. tho some do say wister

The Garden of Eden - Hemingway

Barrel Aged Stout And Selling Out ~ Josh Noel

Story of craft beer becoming big business. IE Goose Island bought out by Anheuser-Busch

Robert Ultley's SITTING BULL

Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
So far, not fun

Idiots say that. It's fahhhkin Woostah!

yessir!

"Why Socialism Works"

By: Harrison Lievsley

An excellent read.

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Socialism-Works-Harrison-Lievesley/dp/1521531218/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538854743&sr=8-1&keywords=Why+Socialism+Works%22 

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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.

by Neil deGrasse Tyson