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Reason for Hope a memoir by Jane Goodall

Le Pont de la Riviere Kwai. Heavy going.

Junk food! Funny, funny stuff.

Truthfully speaking, I actually had met loren and he was a very interesting and thoughtful fellow aspie.

I'm reading "Falling" by Anne Simpson.


On a late summer day along the shores of Nova Scotia, a young woman makes a mistake that will claim her life, while at the other end of the beach her brother, Damian, is unaware that she is drowning. Beginning with this shattering event, Anne Simpson’s mesmerizing novel unfolds in unexpected ways.

A year after the accident, Damian and his mother, Ingrid, travel to Niagara Falls to scatter Lisa’s ashes and to visit Ingrid’s estranged brother, once a famous daredevil of the Falls, now blind, and his mentally disabled son. But old wounds and new misunderstandings soon collide. Damian, burdened by guilt, finds solace in an intense relationship with a girl he first glimpses in a tattoo parlour. A runaway with dreams of New York City, Jasmine has her own reasons for wanting to escape the past. Meanwhile, Ingrid, having reluctantly returned to her childhood home, finds herself at odds with her brother and besieged by memories. As the summer progresses, each of them becomes caught in the pull of the past — until an act of recklessness shocks them into a new course for the future.

In startling, luminous language, Anne Simpson captures both the natural beauty and tawdry eccentricity of Niagara Falls, while evoking the elemental bonds that tie us to the ones we love. By turns uncompromising and heartbreakingly tender, Falling is a riveting story of ordinary people poised on the knife-edge of grief and hope.
With this, her second novel, Anne Simpson proves herself to be one of our most striking and original writers.

I'm reading the Holcroft Covent by Ludlum. I can vaguely recall reading it way back. Ludlum is a brilliant writer of the thrille genre.

I loved that book. I didn't realize he had Asperger's. Is he diagnosed? What a thoughtful,brilliant man.

Charles Bukowski's Septugenarian Stew - Stories & Poems

I love Bukowski!

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Billions and Billions by Carl Sagon.

Very good collection, that one. "The Life of a Bum" is one of my favorite Bukowski stories.

I am not feeling so literary today. Been reading reprints of a comic I really liked when I was a kid, in the ancient era known as the 1980s...

And today...more comic reprints from the 1980s. Ah, comics from that era were so much more FUN.

im really into this

David Bohm's The Special Theory of Relativity.

Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King.