I'm reading..... in The Book Book

• Willa Cather's Death Comes For the Archbishop on breaks at work.
• Dean and Me (A Love Story) by Jerry Lewis and James Kaplan in the basement.
• Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero (Eminent Lives) by Michael Korda in bed.

All three are interesting.

I've read most of Cather's books - My Antonia and The Lost Lady are very good. I have a set of short stories of hers that I like a lot too. I'd heard of this book for a long time. I found it at River Town Books the Sunday before last. It's written very simply. It's about the the first bishop of New Mexico - when the territory was taken over by the US after the Mexican war. It has some nice Catholic touches - I was somehow surprised.

I got the Jerry Lewis book at the library Saturday. It was an impulse. I've read a biography of Dean Martin. He was an interesting and talented man. He and Jerry Lewis were together for about ten years - from 1946 to 1956. I don't really remember them performing together. I might check out some youtubes after midnight one of these nights. Jerry Lewis gives Dean a lot of credit ..... yet manages to hog the story as you would expect. Still it's a nice story.

Grant is one of my heroes - for a whole bunch of reasons. Jim has his Memoirs - the famous book he wrote as he was dying of cancer so his wife would have money after he died. This is a very concise and well written account of his life. It explains what was going on at the time - without getting bogged down in detail. I'm understanding the Civil War better than I have before.