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Sunday morning when I could not get to sleep I finished The Library Book by Susan Orlean. I liked this book so much through about 3/4 of it and then realized later that she was overly-fascinated with the only arson suspect in the LA Library fire. He was arrested but not indicted and he changed his story so many times because he was a pathological liar who took pleasure in entertaining people by embellishing lies. A little like a "leader" we know, except that this guy, Harry Peak, did not inherit money.
The author did use any chronological order in the book. She introduced Harry Peak in perhaps the 3rd or 4th chapter, dropped him and kept bringing him back until the very end. He died of AIDS and she wrote it as if he was among the the first victims, but he wasn't.
I've started A Manifest Spirit: The 359th Fighter Group 1943-1945 by Janet Fogg. I'd read a book she edited that was diaries of her father-in-law, Howard Fogg, who was in the same fighter group. That one was Fogg in the Cockpit. My father was a fighter pilot in the group.
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