Here's Christine Baranski, in bed. Yes, it's a still from from the 2002 movie The Guru. She's reading a book.So, what are my readers reading before they go to bed these days? On their Kindles or those big heavy compressed pulp book-content delivery devices?
I've started to re-read Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin.
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According to my wife, my
bedtime reading is so boring it would put anyone to sleep in minutes-
'The Wisconsin Frontier-
Mark Wyman; (From the time
of the Ojibway/French)
'Extinct Humans' -Tattersall & Schwartz (the latest excitement in paleoanthropology)
'Liberty's Exiles'- Maya
Jasanoff (the story of over 60,000 loyalists who
left the US after the revolution)
No Kindle for this old guy, been buying books for
many decades; only ones which I will read more than once. No racy novels,
just a ton of trivia good only for watching 'Jeopardy'....
I just finished Larsson's "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest" and started Peter Straub's "A Dark Matter".
I'm curious about "Winter's Tale". Any comments about it?
I just recently got Peter Straub "Magic Terror".
"Winters Tale" is one of the best books I've ever read.
It's a New York City novel that is like Dickens meets "Lord of the Rings".
And "Wisconsin Frontier" sounds very interesting.
Ooooohhh! Reading! One of my favorite topics :-) I just started Strong Motion by Jonathan Franzen, who I like very much in spite of myself. I'm not usually a great horror fan, but I just finished Horns by Joe Hill and liked it quite a bit.
Winter's Tale has been on my "To Read" list for a few months now. If you are re-reading it, it must be very enjoyable!
My bedtime reading is my KJV Study Bible, I never miss a night without reading it.
I'm ashamed to admit that I have not been reading anything of late. Yikes!
I do love Peter Straub!
Patrick just published the first chapter of his new book still in progress called "Its Awfully Late for Pattie Mitchell" in a lit mag in SF published by Fourteen Hill. I'm trying to get my hands on it. :-)
I'm reading "Do as I Say (Not as I Do)" by Peter Schweizer. It's a book about liberal hypocrisy; Michael Moore espousing the virtues of unions and then eschewing unions on his own projects, Ralph Nader blasting away at corporations and then investing profusely in them - that type of stuff. Interesting read.
My current bedtime reading is THE LONG-SHINING WATERS, by Danielle Sosin, a novel set on Lake Superior. There are three different main characters, in three different time periods, thus three narratives to follow, but it is not at all confusing. The book is not heavy, either, despite being printed and bound in hardcover. Why would I want to take an electronic device to bed with me? No, thanks.
Will: I remember several years ago (or more) , reading something by Mr. Moore in which he was condemning those who outsourced to other countries. It turned out at that time that his web site was run out of Canada.
P.J. When I think of over-heavy books, I think of the final Harry Potter novel. It seemed to have a few thousand pages of camping in the middle of it. Or so it seemed. Which must have added to the weight.
Yes, dmarks! And he even did some of his filming up there. A real frigging peach, that fellow!
"Michael Moore espousing the virtues of unions and then eschewing unions on his own projects,"
I guess to him, unions are great unless you really need to get the job done. Something that's a great idea only in the abstract.
Cutting Moore a break... I know the guy, and have seen what his generosity and interest have done in my community, in a very positive way.
Most all of us have an amount of hypocrisy in our lifestyles vs our proclamations of values. But not many of us are rich and famous like Michael Moore, so the hypocrisy can be seen by everyone in the world.
Instead, for the rest of us, it amounts to something like someone with a "Buy American" sticker on a Ford automobile.... a Ford that happens to have been made in Mexico, but the driver sees "Ford" and uncritically assumes that the car is 100% Detroit iron.
I'm reading Arabian Nights.
Lots of genie stories, aren't there? And as I recall, not many are near as good as Aladdin, Sinbad, Ali Baba, and the well known ones.
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