Book jam - what you all reading?

I'm reading Can Am Cars in Detail.

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This week it's re-reading for me. William Kennedy's Ironweed and Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. If I get a spare moment I'll continue to tackle Pikkety's Capital in the 21st Century...I was doing well with it until the semester started and now I'm languishing about halfway into it.
 
Made it through the first three of the Game of Thrones, decided to take a break. Read a quick one called Exoskeleton. . . it could have been good. At least it had suspense, it made me want to see where it was going. Now I'm reading The Martian, although at the pace I'm going, it won't last the weekend.
 
I've been on a biography kick lately. In the past few weeks I've read Peter Ackroyd's Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life, James Gavin's Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee, and Neil Young's automobile-centric memoir Special Deluxe.

Of those, the Peggy Lee bio was the most interesting, and the author does a respectful job of researching and sorting out the truth from the melodramatic hyperbole that Lee herself dished out in ever-increasing doses as she got older and definitely stranger.

I suppose folks here might be more interested in Young revisiting his life story with a focus on cars this time. There's a good number of recollections about dogs thrown in as well, but Neil downplays it in the intro because he says he's the worst master a dog ever had and he didn't want to offend any potential dog lovers. Anyway, since I haven't read his previous autobiography, this was a pleasant-enough book. I'm not terribly interested in cars, but it's a good hook for Neil to string together the pieces of this memoir.
 
Just trying to finish the jack Bruce bio...been wicked distracted. I just got the Without Frontiers Peter Gabriel bio and the Man on th Run McCartney bio (post Beatles through the Wings era), those will be next. I'm particularly looking forward to the Gabriel book...he's one of the most amazing musicians I've ever heard and I really only the basics of him having been in Genesis and then being a solo artist.
 
Man. That's a big book. I like the part when Frank Sinatra told him to sign his name on the dinner checks when he was on the road with Nancy.
 
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