Wild Horses--#28 finished

This was a mass market paperback, one of the older ones that actually fits in a pocket okay.  I needed a book like this for doctor's appointments and this one was sitting there at home.  Not a bad read, lots of bad people and bad things happening.  A kind of depressing book in many ways even though the main character Allison comes through at end and maybe future looks bright but still a lot of ugly to get there.  

I have already posted it back on PBS, it was also a 2nd book found for an order so putting back out there on PBS.  It is only copy in system. 

Diamond in the Rough--#27 finished

This is a memoir by Shawn Colvin a folk singer that started in 1980s and playing through today.  I am not into folk singing--I like some Bob Dylan when it comes on but that is about it.  I don't think I have heard any of Shawn Colvin's songs but she has won some Grammys so maybe I have and just don't know it.  I ordered this book when on PBS someone offered me a book and I try to find a 2nd to help offset the mailing cost.  Shawn grew up in South Dakota and I think that was the hook that got me to order the book.  She also went to college at SIUC which is close to St Louis.  It is a good read about her struggles at finding her music and earning a living in the business.  Also that she was an alcoholic but has been in recovery for years now.  Also struggles with relationships but does have a daughter.  An interesting life and a good read.

I have already posted it back on PBS and it is the only copy in system.

Fordlandia--#26 finished

The rest of the title is: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City.  In the late 1920s and into the 1930s and early 1940s, Henry Ford of the Ford Motor Company developed a city and a rubber plantation deep into the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.  This was when rubber was still harvested from trees and the British had a kind of monopoly going in Asia and Ford didn't want to controlled by that.  An interesting read about an interesting attempt at this--Americanizing a part of the Amazon just didn't work.  Ford sent people with little to no experience at this in working with Brazilians, developing a plantation, knowledge of the land and jungle and on and on.  Throw in the Great Depression and then WWII along with eventually rubber in the lab and this project was just doomed.  Of course plant disease, growing conditions, worker problems, etc were going to end this badly as well.  I remember seeing a TV docu show about this and looked up this book from that.  I eventually got it through Thrift Books around Christmas.  A good and interesting read, maybe not exciting but kind of a slow motion car accident type read--you knew it was ending badly and it was at times work to get through, just wanted to find out about the ending.

There are 4 WL for this book on PBS but since have plenty of credits it will get stacked with others waiting till a time in the future to mail.