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Just finished "Townie" by Andre Dubus III, the best autobio I have ever read. A searing tale of growing up poor, with lots of alcohol, drugs, street fighting and barroom brawling that becomes a meditation on male violence. "Townie" is an honest, true story of how a man, who was very good at the dubious skill of brawling, discovered how to live with himself and love others. A really remarkable read. I stopped reading it only to sleep.
Before that I read "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell. Wow, can he write: different voices, different styles, leaps backwards and forwards in time. I really appreciated reading it on my Kindle (the first novel I'd read on it) because I could pop back to the first appearance of a character, or whatever, which is essential in this fine novel; I don't know how it would be reading it in a less-searchable, paper format.
Right now I am reading Too Big To Fail about the sub-prime mortgage mess and bailout and wondering why class war hasn't broken out in the U.S.A.
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