Friday, August 02, 2013

What is Jim Noles reading?

The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Jim Noles, author of Dog Days: A Life in a Year of a Dog Named Pinot, Mighty by Sacrifice, and other books.

His entry begins:
I’m reading a couple of books right now. One of them is Rick Atkinson’s The Guns at Last Light. It is the third book in his Liberation Trilogy, a history of the Allied liberation of Europe and defeat of Germany and Italy during World War II. Atkinson does a marvelous job of weaving individual narratives of individual officers and soldiers onto a broader strategic stage. His writing is first-rate. I think my dad paid the book the highest compliment when he said...[read on]
James L. “Jim” Noles, Jr., is a partner in the Environmental & Natural Resources Section of Balch & Bingham, LLP, in Birmingham, Alabama.  An Army brat and former Army officer, he is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and the University of Texas School of Law.  To date, his books have covered a variety of non-fiction subjects and his articles have appeared in such diverse publications as the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Smithsonian Air & Space, Preservation, Urban Land, Continental, Thicket, Portico, Executive Traveler, Alabama Heritage, Mental Floss, America’s Civil War, and the Birmingham News.

His latest book is Dog Days: A Life in a Year of a Dog Named Pinot.

The Page 99 Test: Mighty by Sacrifice.

Writers Read: Jim Noles (May 2008).

Writers Read: Jim Noles (August 2009).

Writers Read: Jim Noles.

--Marshal Zeringue