Disloyal

Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J, Trump by Michael Cohen (Skyhorse Publishing, 2020)

Knowing I wanted to read this book, my brother pre-ordered it as a birthday gift so Amazon delivered me a copy the day it came out. But it almost didn’t get published. President Trump tried to prevent Michael Cohen from finishing this tell-all book about him by trying to send him back to prison (after he had been paroled for medical reasons). But his first amendment rights were upheld and the book came out. In it Cohen provides a lot of disturbing insight into President Trump’s personality which matches what others have said about him. Cohen is pretty hard on himself too. The problem is that having admitted to telling so many lies, there’s no way to tell if the book is just more lies or if Cohen is telling the truth this time.

 https://bookshop.org/books/disloyal-a-memoir-the-true-story-of-the-former-personal-attorney-to-president-donald-j-trump/9781510764699

 

Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2018)

I put this book on hold at my local library last winter; last week my library finally reopened and it came in. I really enjoyed this book and recommend it highly. It is full of vivid scientific descriptions of nature in the marsh country and estuaries of the North Carolina coast, but it’s also a novel with a suspenseful plot. In fact it’s really a murder mystery, in part anyway. The main character is a woman whose family abandoned her at age 6. She grew up mostly alone in a shack in the wetlands, yet she became an accomplished naturalist and illustrator.

https://bookshop.org/books/where-the-crawdads-sing/9780735219090