Days of Grace--#2 finished

This is a memoir by Arthur Ashe a famous African American tennis pro from 1970s and then coach & commentator about tennis after that.  He was also one of the first athletes to find out they had HIV and then AIDS--his from a blood transmission after a heart surgery in the 1980s.  I knew he had a St Louis connection but this wasn't really discussed in this book.  I didn't know he had written a few other books before this one so they might have covered that St Louis part more.  This one was written right before he died of AIDS and reading the book with that in mind was always sad.  He talks a lot about his life and his health and the time after he retired from tennis.  Maybe not what I was expecting but still a good read.  This is a book that was on my shelf for a few years so figured now was time to get it read.

There are copies already on PBS so I will not post this one there.  I will put it in my give away pile.

Adjustment Day--#1 finished

The first book finished for 2026.  I finished it a few days ago but just now logging in.  This is a strange book by Chuck Palahniuk who also wrote Fight Club.  I have not read that book but saw the movie & is a strange movie.  This is about young men sort of fighting back against the powers of politicians, media, elites and I guess everyone else.  For some reason police, fire fighters and military all step aside and let this group kill off all leadership of our country and then divide the country into a Black country in Southeast, a gay country in California and rest a white country.  Black country flourishes without white people around in a kind of Wakanda way.  Gay country is where multi racial families moved to avoid being split up but have to live as gay in hiding or something like that.  The white leadership is around Portland in book and he becomes like a medieval knight/king.  

I thought interesting for a while since Trump and supporters were able to attract that young white male group to vote for them and there was a sort of similarity to this.  Other than that rest is just a strange book that I generally didn't really like.

This copy is a large print copy so no WL for this one but there are WL for the regular hardcopy and paperback in PBS.  Not sure if will post or not since still have plenty of credits and few books getting offered to me in PBS.