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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
Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #16)
My spouse started making me watch old videos featuring Agatha Christie's Belgian (not French!) detective, Hercule Poirot. Then she began re-reading the books on which the videos were based. Since she reads this stuff in French translation, for some weird reason, I had to hunt up a proper version from the library. Fortunately, my library did have some copies. Dumb Witness, is of course a good choice because it has a nice dog in it. Dogs are great, just ask my Edamame. So, anyway, we have a rich old lady, Emily Arundell, who dies fairly suddenly, only shortly after she had an "accident", in which she tumbled down a flight of stairs. The first explanation for the fall is that she tripped over the ball of Bob, the fox terrier, which was left at the top of the stairs. Only, Bob had been outside at the time. She has a number of relatives much in need of money, anyone of whom could have bumped her off. Then too, she had a spinster companion, Wilhelmina Lawson, who might have wanted a spot of money for herself so that she could become independent.
Anyway, Poirot is called in and eventually manages to unravel the problem and bring the miscreant to justice.
 - Agatha Christie)