Book picks: Life in a lookout tower, HR innovation, and a crime classic

Every week, Kerri asks the Roundtable guests for their book picks. Here’s what they are reading:

Susan Gaertner: “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote

Laura Brod: “HR Pioneers: A History of Human Resource Innovations at Control Data Corporation” by Mark Jensen, with Norb Berg, Frank Dawe, Jim Morris and Gene Baker

John Wodele: “Blood Meridian” by Cormac McCarthy and “Fire Season” by Philip Connors

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Stephanie Curtis

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Stephanie Curtis has produced events, daily news shows, documentaries, conferences and call-ins for MPR News. She also was among the pioneering producers who launched The Current. You can hear her discuss movies every Thursday on The Cube Critics.

heretic

One Hundred Years of Solitude is drivel. I re-read it again last year and it was still horrible.