What are you currently reading?

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85. I have two books going at the moment

Both from the library.

Commander in Cheat -- How Golf Explains Trump by Rick Reilly. Lawrence O'Donnell gave it a good review one night recently. OMG. The guy cheats at everything golf. I played some when I was younger. There is quite a code of honor among golfers, which is self-enforced. I'm about 1/3 of the way through the book and the author (wrote for Sports Illustrated for years) is right now going through how Trump inflates the values of his golf courses for financial purposes and seriously lowballs the value of the courses for tax purposes. He cheats at everything: moving his ball, taking gimmee's, under reporting his score, moving his opponent's ball. He always rides alone in a cart and apparently takes off down the fairway as soon as he's hit--always tees off first--and that's part of how he is able to change the lie of his ball or move an opponent's ball by getting there way ahead of the rest of his foursome. The author quotes all kinds of people who've played with Trump reporting these stories of how he cheats (and lies about it). His caddies report how he cheats. The guy is one giant cheater.

The other book I'm reading--just started a series--is a mystery set in Charleston. First book is The House on Tradd Street by Karen White. I'm going to Charleston next week for several days of their Spoleto Festival and I enjoy reading novels set in places where I've traveled. My husband and I started going to the Spoleto Festival about 2012, and went for 5 years. We used to stay in a little cottage that was on the property of one of the big homes south of Broad and we'd walk along Tradd Street going to/from events.