I’ve been going back and forth on this for a bit and at least for now I think it makes sense to stay more or less on-topic, so for my next not-really-a-book-club book club pick I’m going with Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy by Katherine Stewart. From the jacket copy, it sounds like it relates to the reporting I read about in Wild Faith by Talia Lavin while placing the subject in a different or more-broad scope in potentially interesting ways.

The book is not out yet, it’s scheduled for publication on February 18. I’ll be pre-ordering a copy shortly and plan to read it soon after it lands on my porch; once I get a sense of how it’s going to go I’ll update with a better idea of when I’ll have my post up about it. Like with the Lavin book I really don’t have any special insight into whether this is going to be a good book or not; it’s the on-topic book that skated across my line of sight at just the right moment, though, so I’m interested to dig in. And while I haven’t read Stewart before she clearly has been writing about this subject for a while now so if nothing else I feel like we’re in good hands here.

As a reminder—these not-a-book-club picks are intended to give you the occasional heads up about books I’m planning to post about, in case you want to read along at home and not worry about spoilers. Though I guess that will make more sense if I do a novel for one of these entries. (Which I do intend to do. I think. Eventually. It would be fun to read something fun with y’all!) It’s also meant to let you chat with me about these books, by whatever means you want, ahead of, during, or after me posting about these books.

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