autobiography

Since I'm on the metro for a while every morning and every evening my reading has greatly increased. I have a sort of routine down now. In the mornings I board the train and first read all the tweets from the night before when I went to bed until that morning. A lot of the news gets filtered in and out during that time. Then when tweet reading/text message responses/words with friends turns are taken {I go to bed pretty early these days...I miss a lot of messages} I then turn to my newspaper. In the evenings once I get on the orange line train to Vienna and am securly settled in an inside window seat I bring out my latest book for the rest of the trip home. I've been averaging about a book a month {I'm not a fast reader, and I get distracted}

I've been on an autobiography kick lately.  I first read Mindy Kaling's{Kelly Kapoor from The Office} book in November. After I finished it, I then turned to Rob Lowe's autobiography Stories I Only Tell My Friends. As a movie, tv, and all around Hollywood buff I LOVED IT. He's an exceptional writer and tells some FANTASTIC stories. It's so interesting to think about the boys of the Brat Pack before they had that kind of label. In the book, Lowe tells about moving to California and stumbling upon some neighborhood kids making a home movie and asked if he could be a part of it. Those neighborhood kids were Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Sean Penn, and Chris Penn. It's interesting to see his progress in Hollywood and his decision making process, and how many decisions were definitely not the correct ones. If you like movies at all and are a somewhat Rob Lowe fan you will like. I highly suggest it.

I finished it right after Christmas and didn't start another book til a couple of weeks ago. I was browsing at Barnes & Noble and saw that President George W Bush's book Decision Points was now out in paperback. I decided to pick it up. I'm about halfway through it right now, and I am really enjoying it. I'm usually a little hesitant about political because they are just facts about every single day and not that interesting, but this one is different. He  doesn't cronicle every moment of his presidency. He picked key decision areas in his life and presidency and focus on each of them while drawing his history into how it relates to the decision that was made. Chapter 5 is titled "Day of Fire." There is no way you can read this chapter and not go through moments of tears, pride, anger, and an overwelming amount of chills. The way he writes about September 11 is just so moving and interesting. To see inside his head and why he did everything that he did is very moving and insightful. The book is worth it just for this chapter alone, and I'm not even done yet. I also love his candor. He doesn't hold back on the way he felt at any given moment. I recommend!

I haven't decided what I going to read next. I may get back into some fiction, although VP Dick Cheney's book is really calling out to me. I mean the man served as WH Chief of Staff, Cabinet Secretary, US Congressman, and VP of the US. I feel like he has lots of stories to tell that I would like to hear. Condi Rice's book also looks insightful and I have been resisting both Clinton's books for a while, but I think I may give in soon. I think Washington DC is doing this to me. I may need to be pulled off of this train of thought soon!

What are you reading? Suggestions?