The best advice I've read for a while.
Currently reading
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I started reading this but couldn’t stay awake.
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Nelson and Sea Power by Christopher Lloyd.
May believed Nelson wouldn't even live to reach the age of 30 such were the illnesses that befell him - scurvy, malaria and yellow fever for example. He joined the Royal Navy at the age of twelve and went on to become Post Captain at the age of twenty.
He was known for not listening to orders and going his own way, bearing in mind that it often took six weeks for orders to arrive in the Mediterranean from London.
A remarkable man in every respect, as was his wife, Frances "Fanny" Nelson, not to mention Emma Hamilton, his lover.
Not many films have been made about Nelson, which is surprising.
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This little gem jumps from the pages.
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A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles. It takes place entirely within Moscow’s Hotel Metropole, beginning in 1922 and traveling through all the societal changes and major events of the next 3 decades.
The protagonist is a Russian Count whom a Bolshevik tribunal has sentenced to a lifetime of house arrest. Far from dwelling on all he has lost, this preternaturally upbeat man seizes of the pleasures of each day, and takes the reader through a truly grim and dismal period as if it were Dickens’ “the best of times.”
A fascinating trip. I don’t want it to end.
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Zero Fail, The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service. Written by Washington Post reporter and three times Pulitzer Prize winner Carol Leonnig.
At times amusing, generally uneasy-making, recently infuriating, this well-researched book starts with the founding of the Secret Service and brings the story up through the failed insurrection against the US Legislature, Constitution and Capitol.
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Fat Man in Argentina! Tom Vernon’s observations are so different and so worthwhile. Love him.
After a couple of you piqued my curiosity about the book, I finally got my hands on a copy. And nearly immediately found the paperback quietly lurking on our own bookshelves. So we can both read it at the same time.
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