Books

[Rev. Rye]

Currently reading a book called The Reason Why. It's about the Charge of the Light Brigade, as commemorated in the Tennyson poem, Remarkably, I'm about halfway through it, and the Crimean War hasn't even started. It's like reading a book about Gettysburg and having the first half (at least) devoted to the Pre-Confederacy exploits of Longstreet and Pickett.

Also, in Door County, I look at all the bookstores to see what's there. As of today, I've looked through all of them. Three used, one new, and a couple souvenir shops. When I come back down on Saturday, this is what my reading queue will look like:



Not included in the photo (due to being purchased in Illinois beforehand):

• Medea, by Euripides (tr: Robinson)
  
• Goodbye, Columbus and Other Stories by Philip Roth.
  
• Prejudices, First to Sixth series by H.L. Mencken.
  

Of course, due to the intricate by-laws of the Reading Queue, I will likely be looking at the little book of insults before getting into the Mencken.

Overall, while the fiction to non-fiction ratio is skewed unusually in the favour of Non-Fiction, the breadth of the subject matter is pretty standard for me.