September 6, 2006

• some words about books, and unrelated pictures

  I have been on a book binge.  I read a lot, ordinarily, one book
  after another, most of them discards from local libraries or books
  Greyfox finds in the dumpster at Felony Flats and passes on to
  me.  During August this year I wasn’t just chain-reading.  I
  had several books going at once, skipping from one to another the way
  some people click through TV channels, but probably not that fast.

  This extraordinary reading binge began with my trip to town on Doug’s
  birthday near the end of July.  He went to a bookstore for some
  roleplaying guides and a manga.  While we were there, I got four
  paperbacks for myself.  They were All the Flowers are Dying a Matt Scudder thriller by Lawrence Block, Die Trying a Jack Reacher thriller by Lee Child, Indigo Slam an Elvis Cole novel by Robert Crais, and Michael Connelly’s Void Moon, which does not feature my favorite Connelly detective, Harry Bosch.

  None of them is a new book, but all were new to me.  What they
  have in common is that all are page turners and were written by some of
  my favorite writers.  The heady novelty of having so many
  intensely interesting books at one time led me to neglect blogging,
  photography, the PS2, and everything else for days and daze of nonstop
  reading – about three days.  After powering through those books, I
  dug around in the stacks of recent acquisitions and found a few more
  books of moderate interest, then brought a few more home from the
  library.

  The binge  is winding down now.  I am back to the old
  pattern, reading a few pages or a chapter or two in bed at night before
  I sleep.  The main reason for that is one of the library discards,
  a book that captured my interest but is far from being a page
  turner.  It examines politics and American culture at the time of
  the first World War and Prohibition.  It has reconfirmed for me
  that the more things change the more they stay the same.

  ---

  The images here were captured a few days ago on a water run.  I
  was unable to save them to my hard drive for a few days due to software
  glitches, but finally yesterday Doug was able to transfer them. 
  The first one is the highway turnout across from the spring where we
  get our water.  The others are muskeg.  One muskeg looks
  pretty much like another, but this one is not the one across the street
  from where we live.  It is the big one that extends from the
  highway to the Big Susitna River about a mile away.

  
  
  
  

  

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