What are you reading this week of August 7, 2016?

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5. On a personal level

this has been my summer of mindless home despair minor home repair. I've been replacing deck boards and rebuilding the deck railings. Since I do everything at the pace of the 'old man shuffle', it's a tedious process that reminds me every day of what it means to be old and increasingly decrepit. Given the alternative, i'm grateful for every pain-filled minute.

I'm reading The Paris Wife by Paula McClain. I have a 60 year, up and down relationship with Hemingway, and I recently reread A Moveable Feast which led me to this book. I'm also reading Madison and Jefferson by Burstein and Isenberg. This is one of those 5 pound histories that has to be read in small increments in order to avoid injury.