The Evolution of My Reading Life | Q&A Part 1

Obviously, there can be some bias there, but I just recently read and reviewed Billie Jean King, the tennis star, Billie Jean King's new autobiography, and I thought it was absolutely fantastic.

But, my favorite books as a kid, I know I really liked Blueberries for Sal because my family and I would pick huckleberries behind my grandparents' house.

That book is now in competition with H is for Hawk for my favorite non-fiction book of all time.

That book gave me the idea for my senior thesis. So, I will always be grateful to it because of that, but I think it was also, as I was reading it, I think it was answering a question I didn't even know I was asking because I was getting closer to graduating and that made me sad because I liked school.

And Heather Clark didn't excuse it, but she also didn't exclude it from her book. She's showed it. I forget exactly what Sylvia Plath said, but then Heather Clark followed it up with, "Such was the casual racism of the day." And I thought that was a really great way to handle that because she's not hiding it, but she's also not excusing it.

I thought the book was a little bit overdone in terms of the writing. I think he was trying to stretch it out because there's only so much you can say about it.

I've only ever read The Devil in the White City, and it was a three-star book for me. I thought it was fine.

The answer to the first question would probably be The Big Short. I really love the book and I thought the movie was highly entertaining.

That book is now in competition with H is for Hawk for my favorite non-fiction book of all time. I love that book so much.