What I’m Reading Now: Mary Suhm
Mary Suhm, City Manager, City of Dallas
Books: I read multiple books at a time, so the best way to tell anyone what I am reading is to “locate” the books in my daily life. On the end table in the living room—Gail Thomas’s new book, Healing Pandora, Antoine De Saint-Exupery’s Wind, Sand and Stars, Lancaster and Stillman’s When Generations Collide, and Doris Goodwin’s Team of Rivals.
On the coffee table are a tour guide to Peru(planning a trip), running books, including Born to Run (why did I agree to run a leg of the White Rock Marathon), Barbara Kingsolver’s new book The Lacuna, and Speak, So You Can Speak Again, a sort of multi-media biography of Zora Neale Hurston.
On the bedside table are three new fiction titles—I am part of a team of Texas Libraries Association members reviewing new fiction for a “best” list for the year. The last one I read, set in Amish country with formerly Amish female police chief as the protagonist, was particularly good–by Linda Castillo, a Texas writer. I am barely keeping up with that assignment.
In the car are some paperbacks by Jeffrey Deaver, Stuart Woods, David Baldacci (I love thrillers)…not while driving, only if I end up waiting somewhere.
Carol Reed recommended I get a Kindle. With some hesitation, because I really enjoy the physical aspects of books, I did. Thanks, Carol, it was a great idea. It’s always in my purse. The current contents are McCullough’s The Great Bridge (recommended inspiration for anyone involved in a bridge project), Bingham’s Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru, a Spanish language dictionary, and The Help by Kathryn Stockett.
Website: Regularly review the following….dallascityhall.com, DMN Cityhall blog, Front Burner, Dallas Observer, Facebook
Magazines, newspapers: I subscribe to/read the following newspapers/magazines/journals…… the New York Times, Dallas Morning News, USA TODAY, Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, Texas Monthly, D, DCEO, Money, Real Simple, Cooking Light, Cook’s, Women’s Health, People, Runners World, Legacies, Southern Living, Vogue.
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