Tag: books

Duke Duke Duke Duke of Earl

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Hey hey party people! I’m in the middle of my 5th wind of the day, and just wanted to share a book haul that’s happened over the last week, or week and a half.

I’ve been wicked busy over the last 4 days, I haven’t had the chance to read much at night, so this weekends Lockup Library Book Club will be about my initial thoughts on the first short story in Full Dark, No Stars.

Here’s the haul, I managed to grab some pretty good ones, I think. The Chronicles of Narnia, and Murder on the Orient Express were rescued from my mom that said just take them to the second hand store.

So yeah. Good pile there! Like I said, I’m currently reading Full Dark, No Stars, what’re you reading?

If you don’t like who’s in there, vote em out

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Welp, I’ve had better sleeps. It was awesome until around 5 or 6 I think. You see my grandmother has dementia. It was just a bad dream of it getting worse. The terrible thing; I’d wake up, and fall back asleep, and the dream continued. I feel terrible, because in my dream, I yelled at her.

Coffee.

It’s Election Day just a few hundred miles to the south. I think CNN will be on most of the day here. I’ll be feeding Crystal information all day while she’s at work. The headline on CNN right now

Your Vote, Your Patience & Patriotism.

You can feel the hope in the air. I’m nervous, but let’s see what happens. Let hope science, and reason, and thoughtfulness take over, and COVID is taken seriously, and the border opens.

If you’re in the states, and you haven’t voted yet, VOTE.

No new books at the second hand store yesterday. I did put back on the shelf an Official illustrated Movie Guide for Eclipse. I didn’t think I needed that. Even though it was a fill a bag for a buck again. There was just nothing jumping out at me.

So I’ll try again this afternoon, at the local second hand store. Maybe something there will be awesome, and I’ll have to grab it up.

But for now, CNN, and coffee. Election night coverage started in 6:54:30

I’ve been locked in your heart-shaped box for weeks

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Ok, time for the next book in the Lockup Library Book Club. As I mentioned in a post last week, I had a dream where Stephen Ling was just a small time writer, that no one had heard of. So this prompted me to push a book back, and read one of his.

The book I’ve chosen for the next couple of weeks is Full Dark, No Stars. It’s a collection of four short stories – but with a bonus story at the very end, so I guess technically there’s five stories.

So, a time frame. I’m thinking a story a week, again meeting on Saturday’s. But they are short stories, so we’ll have to play it by ear. This could be a book we finish in two weeks.

It’s an adventure for sure!

If you have it, awesome. If you want to go out and get it, go for it! We start the first story 1922, tonight.

Happy reading!

You bring your knees in tight

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It’s the final Saturday that we’ll be talking about The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.

I finished it last night. I actually stayed up an extra 20 minutes to finish the last 50 or so pages. And lemme tell you, they were page turners!

There’s some writers out there that try and rush the final third of the book, trying to tie up all the loose ends as quickly as possible.

In this book the pace didn’t seem to speed up at all, but I found myself reading faster and faster to find out how it ends.

It doesn’t end with a bang, but kind of ends on a cliff hanger! Just about 1000 pages and it ends on a cliff hanger!

I loved it.

I was working on the lab late one night – when my eyes beheld an eerie sight

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Happy Halloween everyone! It’s wicked windy out there today. Gusts of wind up to 90kph

And there’s snow in Rhode Island.

That’s a bunch of bullshit, man.

I don’t think I’ll be going anywhere today. It’s just so windy out there.

I gotta go and make my coffee. I’m so totally not awake yet. It was a deep sleep, but still tossy and turny. Weird dreams of moving to California and trying to figure out times to talk to Crystal. It was so strange.

Last night, I stayed up 20 minutes later than normal to finish The Historian. Wow. I’ll try to write about it this afternoon. It was good. I still have to figure out how to talk about books, without feeling like I’m spoiling the endings.