K Lo: For me, the best book of the summer so far probably has been The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of José Robles, by Stephen Koch. I blogged on it here.

A while back, I had posted this. My recap: The Lake, the River, and the Other Lake by Steve Amick starts out very well and then finishes poorly, becoming a major letdown. Amick is a good writer, but he chose to take a charming story and make it disturbing (and not in a good way). Picturing Hemingway’s Michigan by Michael R. Federspiel is excellent. If you like Hemingway or Michigan or both, check it out. And The Hanging Tree by Bryan Gruley remains on my reading list–the book just came out, but I haven’t picked up a copy yet.

I’m currently reading (and enjoying) Spencerville by Nelson DeMille. Although it’s set in Ohio, an NRO reader mentioned that a key scene takes place near my summer stomping grounds in northern Michigan, so I decided to give it try.