This is my first post on this blog. Decided to start afresh here, especially since my old site will be going away… no longer have the money to pay for hosting services and the price here is right.
I am reading All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren. I have read exactly two chapters, which translates into 160+ pages already. That bit of numerical analysis should tell you a lot about the book. Now don't get me wrong, I like the book and no doubt it deserved its Pulitzer and whatever other accolades; but it has a good 10% or more too many words, at least in the first two chapters. Makes me feel like Warren had finished an expensive seminar on similes just before he started writing the book. Oh, and he must have found a brand new favorite thesaurus about that time as well. Well done Robert!
Coming up on my reading list is The Making of the President 1968 by Theodore H. White. I think now is a good time to review some election history what with the presidential election cycle getting into full swing. Not sure if it will definitely be the next thing I read, since acquiring the book requires money. I have plenty of other books I can read, currently lurking in the memory of the Kobo eReader that I have been blessed with. So you can keep an eye open for a review of the device as well in some future post here.
It feels good to be writing here, hopefully this will spill over into also resuming work on the book.
One last thing: a plug for A. Parkers Books and Book Bazaar where I bought my copy of All the King's Men and have, over the years, purchased numerous books about Japan. There's a great bunch of folks there.
That's all for today, more to come...
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