It's not great literature, but right now I'm reading early Steve Ditko and Wally Wood anthologies. Ditko before he began at Marvel and Wood the non EC comics of the 1950's.
Not until I've cleared some of the backlog I think I've got at least 16 unread books lined up here already
No kidding! Same with me and this thread isn’t helping.
It's not great literature, but right now I'm reading early Steve Ditko and Wally Wood anthologies. Ditko before he began at Marvel and Wood the non EC comics of the 1950's.
I have tried to 3017 my stack(s) of unread books with some success. More keep showing up though. Audiobook piles may be the worst though, especially when you have a 47 hour volume of Lyndon Johnson from Robert Caro staring you in the face for 4+ years.
I am the same with Audio books. I bought a few from Audible for the car and my mind wanders. “Oh look, a butterfly!”Audiobooks are something that don't work for me. My mind wanders, either processing what my brain just took on, or visiting a memory prompted by something said. Words on a page wait patiently for my mind to return, but an audiobook keeps rambling on while my mind is elsewhere.
As for the backlog of books, part of the problem for me, is having bought cheap book bundles, only to find that some of them are from a series of novels, and not necessarily in the right order. As such, there's some I won't read until I've sourced and read the preceeding ones in the saga.
Bingo. Sometimes you need variety.If I like it and it makes me happy, I could not care less about whether someone thinks it’s great literature.
Audiobooks are something that don't work for me. My mind wanders, either processing what my brain just took on, or visiting a memory prompted by something said. Words on a page wait patiently for my mind to return, but an audiobook keeps rambling on while my mind is elsewhere.
As for the backlog of books, part of the problem for me, is having bought cheap book bundles, only to find that some of them are from a series of novels, and not necessarily in the right order. As such, there's some I won't read until I've sourced and read the preceeding ones in the saga.
I have tried to 3017 my stack(s) of unread books with some success. More keep showing up though. Audiobook piles may be the worst though, especially when you have a 47 hour volume of Lyndon Johnson from Robert Caro staring you in the face for 4+ years.
Finally finished Pat Conroy's "Prince of Tides." "Prince of Tedium" is more like it. Gaseous, inflated writing ill served by maladroit editing.
I need to pick this series back up. I lost interest when Gamache had work issues and his main detective was always stoned, etc. I wish Penny just stuck to the unusually high number of murders in the tiny town of Three Pines.The Madness of Crowds: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Book 17) by Louise Penny