What are you reading now?

[LincolnToddFan]

"The Civil War Diary of George Templeton Strong"...the guy was frightfully bigoted and imo kind of a coward...he paid a Dutchman $1100 to go to fight for the Union in his place. He had a sharp, brilliant wit that reminds me of that of Lincoln's secretary John Hay...I wouldn't want to have been on the bad side of either of them. But a more ferociously partisan pro-Union person was not be found anywhere. He was very much in favor of mass executions of all the leaders of the former Confederacy after the war's end.

"FDR's Last Year", by Jim Bishop

"The Afterlife" by Donald Antrim...the author writes about his intense relationship with his alcoholic and mentally ill mother after her death. Sad, but surprisingly funny as well.