I’ve been reading that book on Salamis and Themistocles and the original Athenian navy, when I can find it (it’s under a pile of something in the car). There’s also a bunch of softbound (better-made larger-format paperback editions) I’ve picked up at Costco. I have been known to buy books by conservatives at Costco just to keep ‘em coming. I got the GWB memoirs as a CD audiobook at Costco. I got sticker shock the other night when I wandered into a Enormous Chain bookstore in one of the malls here. They do have the books on CD in unabridged form (Huck’s, Sarah’s, Rove’s, etc, and other non-political titles) and the display by the entrace is entirely by conservative authors; the rest of the audiobooks are in the music section, and that was closed by the time I got there (near closing time).
Anyway, I’ve got bio about four allied leaders in WWII (can’t remember the title); started a book on a WWI strain of encephalitis that was dubbed “sleeping sickness” and inspired the book and movie “Awakenings”; a bio of Ben Franklin; a stack of others I haven’t yet started; plus all those titles I mentioned last quarter, although chances are good I haven’t found them to continue reading them during that interval. ;’)
Reading...when I can find it(under a pile of something in the car).
We’ve got to get our cars cleaned, not to mention desks and rooms. Once a political boss of mine had his files vandalized and thrown all over the floor. He phoned me and said I needed to come right in. I asked, “How bad is it?”. He said, “well let’s just say the entire conference room floor looks like the top of your desk.” I groaned, “That bad huh!!.”