What are you reading lately?

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Maybe I should list the three books I am reading concurrently.

Score, Data-Driven Success for Your Advancement Team - Kevin MaacDonell and Pete Wylie
Donor Centered Fundraising, 2nd edition - Penelope Burk
An Executive's Guide to Fundraising Operations - Christopher Cannon

I doubt anybody will make a movie on these.

I am glad you posted. The Progressive Arkansas Women PAC is trying to expand donor base and increase donations. You’ll love our Twitter and web address: @ardameocrats.

[Northland10]

Maybe I should list the three books I am reading concurrently.

Score, Data-Driven Success for Your Advancement Team - Kevin MaacDonell and Pete Wylie
Donor Centered Fundraising, 2nd edition - Penelope Burk
An Executive's Guide to Fundraising Operations - Christopher Cannon

I doubt anybody will make a movie on these.

I am glad you posted. The Progressive Arkansas Women PAC is trying to expand donor base and increase donations. You’ll love our Twitter and web address: @ardameocrats.

If your team is looking to do more fundraising analytics to measure and expand your base, I would also recommend Fundraising Analytics by Joshua Birkholz.

[Addie]

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn, a novel about female spies stationed in France during WWI and WWII. Pretty good, I thought.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

[Shizzle Popped]

I'm currently reading "Leadership: In Turbulent Times" by Doris Kearns Goodwin. So far it's excellent. It follows Lincon, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR and LBJ and discusses their leadership qualities and the impact their lives had on how they led and interacted with people. It's a very interesting take on the lives of some of our most influential presidents.

I just finished reading "The British Are Coming: The War for America" by Rick Atkinson. This is the first in a trilogy about the Revolutionary War and I highly recommend it. If you haven't read his Liberation Trilogy it's one of the best series out there about WWII in Europe and Africa.

[Foggy]

Marie Lu.

I've already read the Legend series a few years ago, but now I'm deep into Warcross and Wildcard (It's time for a rematch.)

She really is an excellent, amazing writer.

And I loved The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, and anything written by John Scalzi.

[Jez]

Just finished reading "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman. Now it makes me want to read more of his stuff.

I highly doubt I will watch the TV series (can't anyway, we don't get Starz), but I really did enjoy the book.

[Volkonski]

Linda Fairstein's Alexandra Cooper crime series. Up to book 5. Set mostly in Manhattan with side trips to Martha's Vineyard.

Martha's Vineyard sounds a lot like the North Fork. It even has a former Methodist campgrounds.

Interesting to see technology develop in the series. In the 1st 3 books set in the mid 1990's no one has a cell phone. In book 4 Alex has a "cellular phone". By book 5 set in 2002 cell phones have become fairly common.

[Volkonski]

"The Girl Who Lived Twice " the latest Lisbeth Salander novel, the 3rd by the new author David Lagercrantz.

Showed up in my Kindle library yesterday. I stayed up and finished it last night.

I think this is the best of the 3 novels by the new author.

There is a character loosely based on Trump.

[Addie]

I've been reading Olen Steinhauer's Ruthenia Quintet. These are his first books, all of them set in unnamed socialist republics in Eastern Europe, close behind the Iron Curtain in its early days, with plots involving the state security apparatus and the all too human individuals working in it. If you like spy novels, I think he's one of the best writing today.

On the non-fiction side, I'm reading The Accidental President, about Harry Truman.

[Addie]

With all the uproar about Trump and Sharpie Gate and the weather service, it seemed like a good time to boot this up. If you haven't read it, you should. Gawd bless the civil servants.

Michael Lewis's book about the Trump Administration, The Fifth Risk is not only about the Trump Admin, but about governing itself. The fifth risk facing the nation is identified as "Program Management" or what could happen if government programs are not managed properly or at all. Say if there's an administration in the White House that doesn't give a damn about things like science or terrible threats that diligent civil servants find every day, the discoveries that might have been if anyone was paying attention. This is a deeply researched and harrowing book to read. You might want to wait to do it until after the holidays. But read it.

ETA: Forgot to mention that the Obamas have an option on this book to develop as a Netflix documentary.

I'm in the early stages of reading this. An early impression was it was just a "Trump bashing". It may be but it's much more.
I found a good synopsis within the NYT review:

“The Fifth Risk” raises the most important question of the moment: Have we grown too lazy and silly and poorly educated to sustain a working democracy? We live in a moment when tribal bumper stickers — both left and right — pass for politics, when ignorance and grievance drive policy. The federal government exists at a level of complexity most people just can’t be bothered to understand. We have little idea what it does, only the vague sense that it doesn’t do anything very well. Michael Lewis has taken on the task of rectifying that misconception, and he has done so with refreshing clarity — and a measured sense of outrage — which makes this his most ambitious and important book.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/book ... -risk.html

There's more to it and I'm enjoying the perspective.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Anyone read this?

https://www.nationalmemo.com/amp/r-i-p- ... publicans/

R.I.P. GOP: How The New America Is Dooming The Republicans

Stan Greenberg 4 weeks ago

[Addie]

Not yet. I have it on my Kindle list.

Anyone read this?

https://www.nationalmemo.com/amp/r-i-p- ... publicans/

R.I.P. GOP: How The New America Is Dooming The Republicans

Stan Greenberg 4 weeks ago

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Not yet. I have it on my Kindle list.

Anyone read this?

https://www.nationalmemo.com/amp/r-i-p- ... publicans/

R.I.P. GOP: How The New America Is Dooming The Republicans

Stan Greenberg 4 weeks ago

Thanks!