I keep a list of the books I read, and I just noticed that the last seven books I finished have all been either crime or spy novels by authors like Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Carl Hiaasen, and Anne Hillerman. I Just started The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner, and that one is over 500 pages long.
I know what I’m doing. I’m trying to shut out a world where Gaza children are starved, a pedophile is president, children are snatched off the street by armed thugs hired by the U.S. government, the environment is going to hell, and I don’t see things getting any better.
So back to the Wallace Stegner.
I haven’t quit. Just need some diversion.
I'm think I'm pursuing the same respite from the real world. In addition to the Zane Grey novels I read out loud for speech therapy (I'm finishing up my eighth!), at night I to sleep listening to the Patrick O'Brian stories about the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British navy.
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