"I Feel Like Going On" by Ray Lewis was a quick read. He comes off as very arrogant, but most professional athletes are, I think, it's that fierce competitiveness that makes them great. I always enjoyed watching Ray Lewis play for the Ravens (unless, of course, they were playing my Packers). Clay Matthews reminds me of him, just super passionate about making plays and always after the ball. He had a rough start in life for sure and he's definitely had his trials, but he's had a lot of good things happen to him too, and he seems grateful, which is always nice to see.
I do so love Mark Twain. I'll finish those big bricks of his autobiography someday, I swear :) In this fictionalized account of the last years of his life, Lynn Cullen examines Twain's relationship with his secretary, Isabel Lyon. She seemed closer to him than anyone else, and after his beloved wife, Livy, passed away there were rumors the two of them were going to wed. Isabel abruptly married Ralph Ashcroft, a business associate of Twain's (or, more correctly, Clemens'). Twain gave his blessing on the union...and then a month later fired both of them and he and his daughter, Clara, set out on a nasty campaign to ruin their reputations, taking away the house he had bought for her and publishing terrible things about her. Cullen imagines, based on research and Lyon's diary, that she and Twain were indeed having an affair and Lyon married Ashcroft to save Twain's reputation, but in the process injured the older man's pride, causing him to lash out. It was well written and engaging, I enjoyed it.
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