What are you reading? 2024

The series is quite good.

I'm reading simpler stuff these days. Things that help me sleep. I just finished a book that I read years ago. I loved it the first time, but now I'm disturbed that the main male character kept shaking the much smaller main female character, often to the point of near unconsciousness for the least disagreement. It was a very disturbing revelation. Ruined all her books for me. Yes, a female author.

"One Shot" by Lee Child

You only have 19 books to go in the series, but he's still writing them of course. I read the first four and got tired of them for a while. I read about one a year now so I will never read them all. I really like the new series that sticks close to the books. I can tell my wife, Oh! Look at what's happening next!

I read 2 or 3 of his books then I read something else.  Will be reading a new book by Douglas Preston "Extinction" next.

Turns out the Taos Library has his WWII history. Naturally, being Taos, the volumes cannot be checked out. Must be read in house. That is hard for me to do. Sigh. It is always something, eh?

This biography looks interesting. Please let us know what you think of it.

Could be worse, we were in a library in Dublin and they had one book, chained to the wall. But a couple of blocks away was the Long Room at Trinity College. Sigh. Now that's a library.

I have heard stories. Sometimes we need a person like that. I remember reading a story where he sent a battleship up the Thames and shelled a London neighborhood to put down a riot. Is there something like that in the book?

Was there in '72.

Sorry to let you know, but Lincoln Child did not help write this book.

Just received some poetry books in the mail:

Bjork, ed., Old English Shorter Poems
Williams, ed., A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry
Strand & Boland, eds., The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms
Erdman, ed., The Collected Poetry & Prose of William Blake
The Poetry of W.B. Yeats

The Little Treasury volume was part of a series of such collections back in the '40s and '50s. It's a nifty little volume. Very comfortable size. (Also, the editor was Oscar Williams. My paternal grandfather's name was "Oscar", and my maternal grandmother's maiden name was Williams.)

Nice. I go on poetry jags. I've got collections from Auden, Larkin, Lowell, Hardy, Eliot, and a copy of the Riverside Shakespeare. I've definitely not read all the sonnets, though. The Riverside is great for getting everything and having it not take up a ton of shelf space, but they're not the most wieldy volumes to actually sit down and read.

I'm finding I get eye strain pretty easily these days, too. Getting old is not for the young.