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I am in the midst of stacks and piles of papers trying to get taxes done in time for the accountant to get them filed on time, but I do take breaks to search for something to read next once I get done with this mess.
I am so tired of mysteries and crime, which seems to permeate the entire publishing industry right now. And, I'd rather have my eyes plucked out than to read someone's political take on wars or history. Someone needs to write about something new, fiction or sci-fi, just explore something besides a crime FFS.
I am so tired of mysteries and crime, which seems to permeate the entire publishing industry right now. And, I'd rather have my eyes plucked out than to read someone's political take on wars or history. Someone needs to write about something new, fiction or sci-fi, just explore something besides a crime FFS.
Sounds like a nice afternoon with a pipe and some bodice rippers will get that reading compass reset!
"The Collected Poems of Robert Bly," working on all 500 and some pages of work. Bly died in November 2021 in his nineties after a long and illustrious career in poetry and writing about mens' issues. My interactions with him, I'd give mixed reviews, but I've always been interested in his work, the poetry more than the "Iron John" epoch. There is a great emphasis in his work of a kind of floating consciousness, dropping the reader as he called it, like you'd drop a fledgling bird to get it to fly. There's gold in there, but you have to march through a lot of beautiful but seemingly arbitrary images. The loose context makes memorable lines infrequent for me. But here's one I really liked, one of the few I underlined: "...more full of joy than a wagonload of hay." During my last duty station in the Navy, I was living in a ravaged welfare hotel, saving money for out-of-state tuition, and I sent Bly some poems that included some humor, and being a rather serious old Norwegian, he scrawled on the rejection slip, "You are a wiseass." Thanks Bob, my fellow Navy veteran. My favorite book of his was his Vietnam War, "Teeth Mother Naked At Last." Ironically.
Just started In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
Overlord D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 by Max Hastings.
What some women had to physically go through to get a vote is incredible. Pretty good story so far.
I have heard of him but never read anything in depth. Is the book good?
Currently reading Genesis. (The bible)
The Broken Window by Eva Brick also Battlefield Disasters by Major Setback!
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