“The Last Politician” by Foer – I hate when I read a book and realize I don’t know everything that’s been going on the past two years – and that was sort of what I got from this one – but it was good

“Necessary Trouble” by Faust – former Harvard prez and her memories growing up during the ’60s – was good

“Never Enough” – Wallace – good book on a problem with America’s youth and our expectations of them

“Hurdles in the Dark” by Gonzalez – good book – sad book

“In the Spell of the Barkley” by Panhuyson – TN’s ultra – like most ultra book, a bit (major) extreme

“Her Country” by Moss – didn’t know all there was to know about the women in country music – let me have a good conversation with a friend

“How to Know a Person” – Arthur Brooks – really good book – one of my favorite for the year

“60 Songs that Explain the ’90s” – I not only seemingly missed much of this music, I missed it again when NAQT did questions a month later that were based on the book

“Gold From Iron” Baumgartner – Olympian from a small town – the homecoming at the end was cool

“Running Up the Mountain” Baxter and Mann – NAU’s program – long anticipated book for me – was glad to get to read it

“A Truck full of Money” Kidder – not really sure how the title related to the book – second book in this set that I was reading and kept thinking “what’s the point of this?” and didn’t get a great answer

“Tired of Winning” by Karl – agreed with Politico – Karl cranks out Trump books prolifically

“Charlie Hustle” – Pete Rose biography – sad – interesting – but really sad

“If You Would Have Told Me” – Stamos – he’s more grounded that I thought he’d be –

“The Race of the Century” by Baschomb – YA on The Perfect Mile – which I hadn’t read in years – so that was good to read about again – watched the Bannister video on YouTube – which was good

“Mighty Moe” – Swaby and Fox – reread – and good

“Bruchko” Olson – Cranston lent it after I watched “The Mission” – sad

“Hidden Potential” – by Grant – took two pages of notes – really good

“Choose to Run” Des Linden – second time to read it this year – still good:)

“Elon Musk” – Isaacson – good – interesting guy – like most people, you can’t just take the good – or bad – and dismiss everything else – it’s hard putting up with people:)

“Slang from Shakespeare” – actually by Shakespeare b/c it’s just a list of phrases he used – some surprised me – “I am that I am” wasn’t one I thought was in there