My niece, etc.
Ana shares this photo of David and little Ada.
What a sweetie!
Tomorrow, Karin & I will spend some time with my high school friend, Dan, and his wife and three young children. They recently moved from Vermont to southwestern Michigan.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
My current reading:
(1) Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, translated by Robert Graves (1957), revised by some other dude (2007).
(2) Michael Grant, The Twelve Caesars.
“Robert Graves’ Penguin version … is entertaining, but has to be used with caution.”
Yes, I expect that Graves sneaks in a few extra poisonings.
(3) Terri Jentz, Strange Piece of Paradise.
True crime.
Vacationing from Yale, the author camps out in the Oregon desert and is mutilated by a mysterious axeman. Decades later, she returns to the scene to seek out the axeman, his motive, and cosmic meaning.
The book is highly introspective: was the author’s trauma due to herself, or to the axeman? The author writes 100+ pages before even considering the latter possibility.
Still, it isn’t bad.
(4) Lois Duncan, Down a Dark Hall, original 1974 version.
This classic gothic school novel is by the author of I Know What You Did Last Summer and Stranger with My Face.
(The 2011 update incorporates new technology – email, cell phones, etc. – NO GOOD.)
To be continued. …
What a sweetie!
Tomorrow, Karin & I will spend some time with my high school friend, Dan, and his wife and three young children. They recently moved from Vermont to southwestern Michigan.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
My current reading:
(1) Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, translated by Robert Graves (1957), revised by some other dude (2007).
(2) Michael Grant, The Twelve Caesars.
“Robert Graves’ Penguin version … is entertaining, but has to be used with caution.”
Yes, I expect that Graves sneaks in a few extra poisonings.
(3) Terri Jentz, Strange Piece of Paradise.
True crime.
Vacationing from Yale, the author camps out in the Oregon desert and is mutilated by a mysterious axeman. Decades later, she returns to the scene to seek out the axeman, his motive, and cosmic meaning.
The book is highly introspective: was the author’s trauma due to herself, or to the axeman? The author writes 100+ pages before even considering the latter possibility.
Still, it isn’t bad.
(4) Lois Duncan, Down a Dark Hall, original 1974 version.
This classic gothic school novel is by the author of I Know What You Did Last Summer and Stranger with My Face.
(The 2011 update incorporates new technology – email, cell phones, etc. – NO GOOD.)
To be continued. …