Terry's 3M's

Meditations, Mutterings, Madness

When I was young and single and the pc was non-existant, I used to read in great quantity. I can't remember all the names of the books or all the authors I've read through the years. I have on occasion tried to do just that and I have a database with all the books that I can remember reading in it. But, it is only a fraction of the books I've actually read.

My niece took a book out of the library and when I saw the title, I knew that I had once read the book--close to 40 years ago! So, I gathered my son on my lap and with the other children around, I read aloud the first 3 chapters of Mr. Popper's Penquins by Richard and Florence Atwater, written in 1938.

It was a nice, cozy evening which ended with my son saying his prayers while sitting on my lap.

I have said before that my tastes are eclectic. These are the books that I either have already started, or that are library books that I intend to read over the next few weeks:

Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn--A Flame in Byzantium
Auel, Jean--The Plains of Passage
Tan, Amy--The Hundred Secret Senses
Koontz, Dean--Dragon Tears
Harris, Lee--The Yom Kippur Mystery
Braun, Lillian Jackson--The Cat Who Turned On and Off
Stout, Rex--Under the Andes--written before the Nero Wolfe mysteries.
Asimov, Isaac--Nemesis
Block, Lawrence--The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart
Lindsey, Hal--The Final Battle
King, Stephen--a reread of the first three books in the Dark Tower series before I get the paperback edition of the fourth in the series--Wizard and Glass

I have already started seven of the above books. How do I keep them straight? I don't know, I just do.

Well, if you'll excuse me, I have some reading to do.

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