I've been out of school for five months and now I feel like reading stuff again.
I read my first book since graduation a couple of weeks ago. It was a self-published memoir written by a friend of mine. I read it quickly in a couple of sittings which is unusual for me. Normally, I read slower and really take my time with a book. For two and a half years, I read nothing but text books. Now that I've gotten over the burnout of that, I want to read what I want to read. In other words, not something that I have to do for an assignment or a class.
So, recommend some books for me. I tend to gravitate toward non-fiction, but I'm open to all genres except romance.
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Amazon description:
Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with gangsters from Harlem, she stood atop Maine’s Mount Katahdin. There she sang the first verse of “America, the Beautiful” and proclaimed, “I said I’ll do it, and I’ve done it.”
Grandma Gatewood, as the reporters called her, became the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone, as well as the first person—man or woman—to walk it twice and three times. Gatewood became a hiking celebrity and appeared on TV and in the pages of Sports Illustrated. The public attention she brought to the little-known footpath was unprecedented. Her vocal criticism of the lousy, difficult stretches led to bolstered maintenance, and very likely saved the trail from extinction.
Author Ben Montgomery was given unprecedented access to Gatewood’s own diaries, trail journals, and correspondence, and interviewed surviving family members and those she met along her hike, all to answer the question so many asked: Why did she do it? The story of Grandma Gatewood will inspire readers of all ages by illustrating the full power of human spirit and determination. Even those who know of Gatewood don’t know the full story—a story of triumph from pain, rebellion from brutality, hope from suffering.
I haven't read this book, but it sounds really interesting. I have it on hold at my local library. Reading your recent posts, it sounds like something that might be able to give you some inspiration.
These are historical fiction books based during the Tudor era, particularly the Anne Boleyn days. The story is told from Thomas Cromwell's point of view.
They just showed "Wolf Hall" as a 6 part mini-series on PBS. The acting was out of this world, particularly Mark Rylance as Cromwell.
Read these books, Tobin. You won't be able to put them down. Hilary Mantel really did her research.
Enjoy! 
I appreciate all of the great suggestions. 
and his funny travel stuff. OMG 
