Tag: books
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please please please let me like this
I really want to like the series Down Cemetery Road on Apple TV. I really do. The series was based on a novel by Mick Herron, who wrote the Slow Horses series of books. I enjoyed those books and enjoyed the very watchable television series that was adapted from the books. The got Emma Thompson Read.
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One Ring
I just finished my twice-in-a-lifetime re-read of The Lord of The Rings yesterday evening. Twice in a lifetime seems like enough. First time was in high school, so that was, what, about forty years ago? And so I didn’t remember many of the details. I remembered the names of the principle characters, and there was Read.
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books galore
“Spook Street” is the fourth novel in the ‘Slow Horses’ series of spy thrillers by Mick Herron. The story circles around David Cartwright, a top-tier spook of the Cold War era, as he slides into senility at about the same time that an unknown agency decides to take him out of the picture. I like Read.
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books books books
It took me a while, but I finally finished reading “Lord Jim” by Joseph Conrad. And when I say “it took me a while,” I mean it took me years. As in, decades. I’m pretty sure I tried to read it for the first time forty years ago after I read “Heart of Darkness.” Probably Read.
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Go Away
I see that A Room Of One’s Own is for sale. It’s one of the few remaining independent bookstores in Madison, and I hope it finds a buyer because I would hate for Madison to lose another bookstore. I would buy it myself, except that I would have to rename it Go Away, I’m Reading, Read.
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Laika
I followed My Darling B to the library again today and, while she was working on her resume, I wandered past the stack of graphic novels in the young adult section near the computer printers. Most of them were collections of comic books, old and new, from the Marvel and DC lines, with all the Read.
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weeds
Want some books? I’ve been in the basement lair this morning weeding books from our collection. Lots of the books have got to go. We’ve been hanging on to so many books that we don’t read and, so far as I know, have no sentimental attachment to, and I’ve collected – no, a more accurate Read.
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shelf life
Moving books again. I love books, but I’m getting just a little tired of moving them around all the time. I built a set of book shelves in my basement lair, which means I had to move the 400 or so books that were stacked up on the cheap-ass book shelves I was using in Read.
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score
I’ve been wandering through Saint Vinnie’s for weeks without finding a single thing I considered for a moment worth purchasing. Then, today, I wandered in, not expecting to find anything, yet within five short minutes of walking in the front door, I was cradling a copy of the Jules Verne Omnibus, a big, thick, old-looking Read.
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DNA
Still makes as much sense today as it did then: [An extraterrestrial robot and spaceship has just landed on earth. The robot steps out of the spaceship.] “I come in peace,” it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, “take me to your Lizard.” Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this, Read.
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