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Reading Slothfully
I was told in elementary school that I only could read at half the speed for success in college. Oh well, one benefit of slow reading is you get to live with the characters a longer period of time. I read in a vain attempt to better understand people. At my other homes, I'm known as a spouse, pop, guy in the choir, physical chemist, computer/web dilettante and child-care provider. In theory, I'm a published author, if you consider stuff like Quenching Cross Sections for Electronic Energy Transfer Reactions Between Metastable Argon Atoms and Noble Gases and Small Molecules to count as publications. I've strewn dozens of such fascinating things to the winds.
Currently reading
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
The Spirit of the Border
Ramona the Brave (Ramona, #3)
The Underground Man (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Delilah of the Snows
Mrs. Miniver
Betsy-Tacy Treasury (P.S.)
A Christmas Carol
The Way Some People Die
Envy of Angels
Betsy-Tacy
Betsy Ray is almost 5. She has an older sister, Julia, but no friends on her street of her own age. She lives in a small town in Minnesota around the turn of the 20th century. Then a family moves in across the street and they have a 5-year old girl as well. Her name is Tacy Kelly and she's very shy. But soon, at Betsy's 5th birthday party, they become best friends and have many adventures together, making a house and/or store in a piano box, going visiting in their mothers' clothes and leaving their cards, having picnics up the hill, playing paper dolls, and so forth. The book is rather simple and more suited to young girls than elderly, repressed, Calvinists. But still, I had fun reading this. It hearkens back to a time when life was simpler, or at least so we thought, and these days, I could do with reading about simple goodness and joy in life. I'm not sure how much further I'll delve into the Betsy-Tacy series.
