Recent books that I have read

Not quite relaxed about certain things, here I am at the computer. What an idea? I'll detail my recent non-periodical reading.

---"The Cat's Table" by Michael Ondaatje. What a precise writer. This book seems like autobiography but may well not be. Who knows. What a well written book, just beautiful at times.

---"27 Views of Hillsbourgh", by writers from that North Carolina small town. If you are from around there or interested in community focused small town development, it's a great read.

---"The Oracle of Stampoul", first novel by Michael David Lewis, --- can't really explain how terrific this historical novel of late 19th century Turkey really is --- a still undiscovered gem.

---"The Great Leader", by Jim Harrison. Harrison is an acquired taste and this is his best in quite a while. In France he's like the Jerry Lewis of films, his books get translated at the same time as here. Some are sort of weak, but this one, while still not being some literate gem, is terrific.

---"Swimming to Cambodia" Spalding Gray --- a rereading prompted by a magazine article.
Still with interesting anecdotes but not the stunner of those times. The talk still works well and the memory remains.

That's it.