My #ChristmasBookHaul. Santa was good to me! 🙂🤶🎄📚(so was @dabbe !)
My #ChristmasBookHaul. Santa was good to me! 🙂🤶🎄📚(so was @dabbe !)
📚 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/books/reading-rhythms.html
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Seymour Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist known for his work uncovering the My Lai massacre, the Watergate scandal and the Abu Ghraib war crimes. This memoir focuses on his career and how he broke his biggest stories but offers nothing personal, no analysis of changes in the profession or the ways anonymous sources can be used and misused. I think the book suffers for that, leaving it an okay factual read rather than an insightful one.
Well, it‘s that time of year again: “best books” season. I love the lists but also get stressed out with my reading life 😆
I always look forward to the NYT end of the year list.
I happened to already be in the middle of two of their choices:
-Master Slave Husband Wife
-North Woods
And I read chain gang which I didn‘t love. I plan to try a few others including The Best Minds and Fire Weather (which I was already on hold for)
Pondering dinner……with temps in the mid 30s F 😩, something comforting & warm is in order. I was thinking MS Roast (❤️pepperoncini), but then I spied Mapo Ragu! I will bookmark both.
At 19 hours, this is a bit #NerdAlert 🤓, but if you‘re interested in newsroom politics and the whys of major news coverage, this is great! Covering 1976-2016, Nagourney looks at the relationship between the executive editor and publishing (Abramson‘s firing, etc.) as well as behind the scenes accounts of major highs and lows (Jayson Blair, 9/11 Pulitzer, their role in erroneous Iraqi WMD accounts, etc.).
It‘s Sunday.Sometimes I treat myself!
A riveting exploration of the Jayson Blair scandal that rocked the New York Times. The Blair scandal doesn't come up until page 101, so a bit of patience is required by the reader. However, it's important that Mnookin sets the scene for the destructive culture that allowed Blair to come on board in the first place, which he does masterfully. Just as important, this book is also about how the NYT admirably recovered from the scandal.
Tutta Pasta was my favorite restaurant! The owners retired, and it closed several years ago. It was the last thing I expected to come across in this book. Now I'm sad, both because I miss it, and because I've now learned that Jayson Blair used to eat there.