Finished Olga Dies Dreaming.
Finished This Is How It Always Is.
Listened to a Brené Brown podcast with Emmanuel Acho and thinking of listening to his new book, Illogical.
The Name of the Rose
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Started Octavia Butler’s Adulthood Rites after reading Dawn last fall.
Will be starting The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley soon but that will be a slow read with a book club spreading it out over 6 weeks.
Thinking of reading a Brandon Sanderson over the summer as it’s popular among my daughter’s set. Gonna have to check out the video posted above.
That video is only 50 seconds long 
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I finally got around to reading Girl Woman Other earlier this year and found it excellent.
As an aside, some South Dakotans want it banned from school as they view it as part of “the Marxist global revolution”. Don’t want to get political in this thread but I thought it was an interesting side story.
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I finished Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time. I think Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process is next.
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Reading is life to me. 
Also, about half my “reading” is audiobooks while I’m doing something else.
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Looking for an audiobook recommendation for my dad. He’s uber conservative. I think he’d like a biography, history, or conservative Christian nonfiction. (He’s retired from Coast Guard and 20ish years of being a pastor.) I want to gift him something from Audible so he can try it out.
He is recovering from eye surgery so I want to choose something for him so he doesn’t have to scroll through his phone to decide. If he enjoys this I’ll gift him a membership for Father’s Day. By then his vision should be better.
Oh, maybe I will get him something by Eugene Peterson.
I think it is largely a propaganda piece for Israel but from how you describe him he might like “Exodus” by Leon Uris? I was uncomfortable with it but I have different views than your father!
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Seems like an odd suggestion for an Ultra Conservative Christian who reads non-Fiction
Ultra conservative Christians love Exodus. Have you read it? It is based on historical fact but glamorized a bit. I did not like its depiction of Arabs but most conservative Christians would not be offended.
read it years ago (maybe 45 years) , have read a lot of Uris
Great. Then the Wikipedia summary below is primarily for the benefit of AJS as to whether she feels her dad might like it:
“Exodus is a historical novel about the founding of the State of Israel beginning with a compressed retelling of the voyages of the 1947 immigration ship Exodus and describing the histories of the various main characters and the ties of their personal lives to the birth of the new Jewish state. In 1958, it became an international publishing phenomenon, the biggest bestseller in the United States since Gone with the Wind. It has been both widely praised and criticized as being anti-Arab or anti-Palestinian and as having “ignored the basic injustice” at the root of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.”
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My dad might like that. The narrator for the audible version is Paul Michael, and he’s pretty good. I don’t know if it might be a bit long for him? But I will keep this in mind.
If he wants something more historically rigorous I would recommend the above book that I reviewed earlier.
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I’ll keep that in mind. I don’t know how much he cares about historical rigor tho.
Whiskey When We’re Dry by John Larison.
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Just picked up “everything they had” by Halberstam from the family library