Tag: fiction
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de-fence-strate
My Darling B has a garden in the back yard with a fence around it. As fences go, it’s pretty basic: a series of 4×4 posts set in the ground about four feet apart, with galvanized hardware cloth stapled to the outsides of the posts. The bottom edge of the hardware cloth is buried about 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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