I'm liking this more than I thought I would. I recently read Gore Vidals American series, and I believe it prepared my mind, as it were, to be more receptive to The Master's style.

by Jack Kerouac. It is pretty retro, but I love reading about the Beat Generation.

I had never heard of the Beat Generation so I took to google, lol.

Wiki gave me some help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Generation

I lived it but just never heard the term before. Sometimes I wonder "where have I been?"

Thanks for teaching this old gal something new.

In some ways it surprised me how accessible a read it was.

I got used to you and your nick and your science fiction, and have been missing you for months...

I am glad you are back and hope you didn't have serious problems....

love...

just a bit of a family problem , but thankfully everything and everyone is ok.


By the way I have a brand new 9 lb baby boy great grandson!

Congratulations. He's a big boy. What's his name..?

I remember you had a death in your immediate family not too long ago, and I know these things happen and cause all kinds of unseen miseries, but I also remember you had more family and a very good friend. I hope these are still available as needed.

Didn't mean to not mind my own business, but I get used to seeing names and connect pictures in my head to them and I missed you.

Glad you're back.

after his daddy.It was my daughter, and Carys mom that passed away.

I am glad to be back. You get so you kinda feel like you know DU friends

by J K Rowling. I'm about halfway through and so far it's really good.

_The Light of Day_ by Eric Ambler.

Listening: _The Moving Finger_ by Agatha Christie.

Ambler, Christie, Chandler, Tey--it's been a retro month for me.

2013: 28 and counting.

Marvelous mystery book in the Charlie Moon Series by James D. Doss....



15 of 2013

A historical novel based on the known fact that Edgar Allan Poe spent part of his childhood attending an English boarding school. Poe is not the main character--that's a fictional but plausible tutor at the school--but supposedly it posits an explanation for Poe's disappearance just before his death many years later.

Purse book: Just finished "Helsinki White" by American expat Jim Thompson, an intriguing and ultimately depressing novel about racist movements in Finland and how--at least in the author's eyes--government figures and other powerful people manipulate opinion and put on a facade for the public while dealing with some of the sleazebags they supposedly deplore.

By Katr Morton.