Finished Homer’s Odyssey on audiobook (loved it) and now reading Circe by Madeline Miller.
About a third of the way through Ulysses on audiobook, but thinking of waiving the white flag. Don’t know if I can go another 20 hours of not knowing what in the hell is going on big picture.
And I didn't even get to the guy I bought my current house from, still in prison for bank robbery 20 years later! More seriously, neither of the "friends" I referred to are people I know very well, though I obviously know something of their stories. I do have some non-felonious friends.
Truthfully, we all likely know a few. Regarding your friend from Duke who show up at a minor's house --- a relative of mine who is a dentist was watching one of those "To catch a predator..." shows taking place in his city. Long story short, the orthodontist who he referred all his children patients to for braces walked into one of the houses.
Yeah, there's nothing better than an audiobook read by the author.
"Well, we escaped the Sirens, only to become trapped between a monster and a whirlpool. D'oh!"
Though when it comes to maritime tales, some prefer old-fashioned reading...
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Another advantage to audiobooks. Listen to the author's preface. "I won the war, I became President, and I am buried in my own tomb."
I just started Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941 by Mark R. Peattie. The book was a Christmas present from my brother in law. We share a love of history.
Bob Green
My wife and I read together, and sometimes I read a different book at the same time.
We just finished Wuthering Heights about a week ago. I liked it, but she did not. We started up on a book called American Dirt, about a woman whose entire family was killed by a cartel in Mexico except for herself and one of her sons; it is pretty intense so far.
My last "on the side" book was King's 11/22/63, which I really enjoyed. I flew through its 800-some-odd pages in about two weeks while working full time, reading Wuthering Heights, and watching at least one Homeland episode every evening.
I am currently trying to decide what my next "on the side" book should be. I like to read the classics. I'm thinking about Marquez's "100 Years of Solitude." Anybody read it? Good choice?
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust
It is a beautiful, beautiful book...lyrical, layered, generational, just really embedded with magic. But it is not an easy read. You may well have to power through parts of it and just stick with it, especially in the beginning. If you read it though, you'll almost certainly be in love by the end.
Just finished Bad Blood, a compelling account of Elizabeth Holmes and her fraudulent Theranos venture. It's a good read by the Wall Street Journal reporter largely responsible for bringing her down.
The company was a huge scam.Through force of her personality and appearance, Elizabeth Holmes convinced people like George Schultz and Henry Kissinger that this was a viable company based on real science.
I think she is still facing a criminal trial over all this.
After reading what I wrote, I don't think the problem lies in your reading comprehension. What I should have said is that "on the side" I am sometimes reading a different book.
We read together for about a half an hour a day. Sometimes that feels like enough reading for me, but most times it does not, so I get a book I alone am interested in and read it.
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust
Mick Herron is out with the seventh book in his Slough House series which is most delightful...
I just received a book in the mail, unsolicited. "The Great Controversy" by E.G. White
The copyright on this one is 2020. The one I found in Wikipedia was printed in 1911.
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