I’ve been busy enough not to have gotten to this, but if you were paying attention, I finished Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad a few days back and never mentioned what’s next.
It’s getting harder finding what I think I’d like, but sometimes a little bit of randomness is a good thing. That’s how I stumbled upon a title like One of Our Own, which, being the winner in 1923, probably doesn’t get much attention anymore.
What I’m running into now, though, is that the books in which I take the most interest are either not available here physically, or not even on line through the Libby app. There’s one in particular that I’m trying to track down, but it’s tough.
In the meantime, there is a book in which I’ve taken a mild interest: 1947’s winner All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren. I’ve heard vaguely of it, and I remember the famous 1976 movie All the President’s Men about Watergate and starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. They’re not necessarily related, but the title’s are similar enough that it caught my eye.
All the King’s Men is about the political rise of a Southern politician. I know very little else about it, and I really don’t want to. I’m just enjoying the reading so far, although it’s almost the exact opposite of a book I recently read, All the Light we Cannot See in that the chapters are massively long (the “chapters” in All the Light could sometimes be a page long).
So here goes. Over 600 pages so it could take me a bit, but so far, so good.
I never made the connection before between these titles and corrupt politicians