Books read, early January

[mrissa]

Dale Carpenter, Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas: How a Bedroom Arrest Decriminalized Gay Americans. One of the things that’s interesting about this book is that it looks like Carpenter started writing it pretty much right away-so it was possible to interview almost everyone involved with the case at least once, directly and in

Comments

[timprov]

If the Older and the Vang are ours, would you put them on my to-read shelf?

[mrissa]

I read the Vang in a PDF from the library. I've never done that before but it was reasonably easy. The Older is on Mark's pile at the moment, but you two can arm-wrestle for who gets it next if he hasn't read it by the time you get home.

[thistleingrey]

Hmm, interesting about the Vang--no California public library within my larger system (LINK+) has bought a copy, it seems. I'll look for it.

[mrissa]

The author is Minnesota-local and the book has a Minnesota setting. While I think that it could be interesting to people who are not from here, it's from a small press, and I'm not surprised that it isn't everywhere.

[carbonel]

I've requested Infomocracy from the library. I'm pleased that there's an e-book version available, though there's a queue for it.