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I'm currently listening to Todd Purdum's Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television. This comes after listening to Love, Lucy by Lucille Ball and A Book by Desi Arnaz. It draws very heavily from Arnaz's book, but also adds additional bits of context. I'll probably be looking for another book on the history of television (and likely radio), probably on the development of the various networks.
My previous book was Sophie Aldred's Doctor Who: At Childhood's End. I have to confess I haven't watched the Sylvester McCoy episodes in a long time, and dropped off watching NuWho shortly before Jodie Whittaker took over, but the book is thorough and engaging, and delves much more into character relations than a lot of Doctor Who books (that, plus their tendency to not have a lasting impact) is a reason I tend not to read many of them, but this was a worthwhile read, and I enjoyed the writing.
Before that was Robert Heinlein's The Door Into Summer. It's an engaging enough time travel(ish) book, but .... what? After much time travel, various shenanigans and all the characters aging by various methods, the hero ends up marrying his business partner's daughter, whom he had met and established a friendship with when she was 11 years old, and whom he doesn't seem to have had much significant contact with later on. I may not be doing it justice, but that part kinda gave me the ick.
Before that was Me by Elton John. It was an interesting account of his life and the various advances they made in music, but not a lot of it has stuck with me. It did made me grab a couple books about Harry Nilsson, which are now on my TBR pile.
I have no idea how they're going to fit into my Bingo card, but I'll figure that out closer to the date.