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.
ReplyDeleteI have a suspicion that many of us are doing that. Nonetheless, we really must keep fighting. CBS won't. Big law firms won't. Cabinet officials won't. It's up to us.
ReplyDeleteI think I've finished every Bosch/Lincoln Lawyer book by Michael Connelly and every Jack Reacher by Lee Child.
ReplyDelete(The new Reacher books from 2020's The Sentinel onward, cowritten with his brother, are not as good, and my interest in the series has tapered off.)
Have you read Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder books? They are every bit as good as Connelly and Child's books.
I also like Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins and James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux books, but I rarely buy the paperbacks. I tend to either borrow those from the library or buy them when I find them at thrift stores and used book stores.