Day: June 11, 2024

I recently started book #7 for this year. It is Don Winslow’s finale go the Danny Ryan Series, “City in Ruins”. I started it the other day, mind you I am only forty some odd pages in, and I like it so far. I’m just taling longer than usual to get over the ending of the fourth Dune book, God Emperor of Dune. I really feel like that series took a sharp left turn right after book one part three finishes, and it goes elsewhere from where I would have wanted to take it. But alas, I am no great science fiction author, and I don’t have the inclination, nor skill to fanfic the sequel(s) I would have hoped to have seen. Lots of build up and an oddly unsatisfying ending.

I just completed three of the Dune sequels in a row, and I’m coming off the sci-fi high, in order to read the crime drama, and I’m not changing gears internally as fast as I’d like. I just read nearly 2,000 pages of Dune related materials, and going back to the 90’s Las Vegas scene is a tad jarring. I know I said I wasn’t trying for twelve books this year, but I kind of am. In a weird sort of way. I feel like finding the time to read one book a month isn’t too much to ask of myself. Not all the same genre, or length. It’s for fun, so I’m trying to keep it fun. No stress.

I thought I had a James S. A Corey book coming at the end of May, but that’s not until September now, so I don’t know if I have misremembered the date, or if it was pushed back by the publisher. Either way I do have two more Dune books I can get back into reading for this summer. Though I’m not totally sold on option, that given how far afield the story has drifted, and  gotten away from the characters I know and/or cared about. It’s a problem I have. Petty I’m sure. But a real concern.

So I know of at least four books which I can read to finish out the year. I have a substantial TBR pile that I can supplement my list with. Anyway, that was what was initially on my mind last night, but I totally forgot about this morning, until I pulled the book out to read for a bit. Those slow moving wheels ground together and it twigged my memory. Late but not never!

House Hunters International and yelling at the idiots on tv is a national pastime around here. Fools looking for too much with too little on hand. If it didn’t make me so mad I would laugh the whole way through. My favourite are married couples looking for the exact opposite from their location, and potential accommodations. They say opposites attract, so that tracks I suppose.

It is now Tuesday, and we are still in a very cool patch of weather. I’m told that next week we are looking at temperatures in the low thirties Celcius. Which is a pretty wild temperature swing. Can’t wait.