The books.... in The Book Book

.... in alphabetical order mostly by writer.

• Her Infinite Variety by Louis Auchincloss. I like reading him. I also like to say his name. No particular reason for this book.
• Hemingway - High on the Wild by Lloyd* A Arnold. From 1939 to Hemingway's death in 1961 - time spent in Sun Valley, Idaho. Lot of hunting photos - guns, dead birds. His last two wives, Martha Gelhorn and Mary Welsh. Gary Cooper was around a lot too.
• Atonement by Ian McEwan. A novel. I don't know a lot about the author. Sort of an impulse purchase.
• Heroes by Joe McGinnis. I have kind of a soft spot for McGinnis. He wrote The Selling of the President about Nixon's 1968 campaign. I have a feeling it would seem pretty innocent now. He also wrote Fatal Vision about the man who most likely killed his family. I'm not sure what Heroes is about - well it must be about heroes, huh?
• Letters From the Editor - the New Yorker's Harold Ross - was Jim's idea. I haven't really looked at it.
• The Best of Mike Royko - One More Time - a collection of newspaper columns. Impulse purchase. Chicago.
• Myself & the Other Fellow - A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Claire Harman. It's an 'uncorrected proof, not for sale' but I bought it anyway. Jim's idea again, and he was disappointed that it didn't have any pictures. I've been reading bits and pieces and I like it.
• The Same Door, short stories by John Updike. They are early stories from the mid-1950s. It's an ancient beat up little paperback. Can't beat Updike. I've lived my whole life with him.

I thought this looked like Constable. Then I had to go look up Constable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Constable