Today’s rant is here. Click to see
Blog Post for 1/15/2011-7:02am-8 degrees.
Books.
I love them.
More importantly I love reading them.
All kinds of books. Here is the stack by my bed.
Bed-side reading
On a guess there are about 100 books piled there.
Without looking I cannot tell you for sure what’s there. I know there is “The Beans of Egypt Maine” because that’s what I am reading now. Just finished “Dead in Five Heartbeats” by Sonny Barger – the Hell’s Angel leader. It was awful.
See that’s the thing. I don’t much care if the books are good or bad. I learn as much about writing from the horrible ones as I do from the ones that make me glad I can read.
I will work my way through that stack this winter and during the flea market and yard sale season I will replenish.
“I don’t have any time to read,” people tell me. I notice these folks never have any books on them, or near them.
Me, I am always equipped. Now that I have my Kindle:
Jim's Kindle
I always have something. 69 on there so far. Including the full N word version of Huckleberry Finn.
Darn Kindle is breaking me. If you check my Facebook page you will see I am a fan of Robert B. Parker.
Bob, who died about a year ago, was a prolific writer. Some of his books are a bit hard to find and lots of them I have not read are on Kindle.
So far I have spent about $50…
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The rant today is one of quite a few that I have written about my ineptitude with things involving tools. It’s a rich field to mine.
Today’s rant is here. Click to see
