Always amazing how much you can learn and feel from poetry. A few words on a page used the right way can teach and express so much.

Took me awhile to finish this one, but I do really enjoy Dickey‘s poetry.

Great book. Pride and power, heartache and heartbreak.

Current book pile

Eternals by Neil Gaiman and John Romita, Jr. I can see how this will probably be the basis for the film. It is Kirby interpreting Chariot of the Gods mixed with some Gaiman dark fairy tale and a bit of Lovecraft.

Books my wife got me for Father‘s Day.

One of my favorites since it features the Shakespeare issue.

Warren Ellis spy fi coolness. Go read. Hit the spot for me.

Finished volume 2 of the Sandman today.

World isn‘t weird enough apparently, so I am re-reading the Sandman.

Happy Shakespeare Day!

“That the rude sea grew civil at her song.” Another piece from Shakespeare about the sea that I love.

I love this description of the ocean floor from Richard III. #shakespeare

Going back through and reading the classic horror books. Enjoying this and seeing them with new eyes.

This was ok. Outdated in some ways and a lot of it you can learn from various YouTube videos that show you how the shots are done in actual films. Also, too much talk of storyboards.

Finally finished this one. I enjoyed it, but I can also see why so many have taken it and made it their own. I do love the way the story is told.

I finally finished this one. Some of the scenes in the book upset me; but, they are clearly of the time. A good look at making sure your ship is custom for your adventure and being fully prepared.

This morning (soundtrack provided by Ellis Marsalis).

An amazing and very dense look at the plays and the philosophies Nuttall sees in them.

“Democracy can do many things. It can even commit suicide.”

Lot of down time to read books. Guess that is one good thing about this quarantine and shut down.

First book of the forced hiatus/unemployment due to covid19.

Really enjoyed this one. For what is essentially a mystery/adventure book, it has a lot to say about confronting our inherited biases.

My purchases today at the bookstore.

Great survey of Shakespeare plays which presents them more as asking questions than giving us answers. I really hope we get more books from Emma Smith in Shakespeare.

I was getting some stuff organized. Notebooks from 2009 to 2020.

My son playing Caliban in his school‘s production of The Tempest. He was so good!

Love this description.

Great quote for those who love to keep a notebook.

This was a lot of fun. Recommended for fans of Riverdale and Nancy Drew. Just a fun, YA mystery book inspired by Clue.

First book of 2020. Really enjoyed this book. Characters are a nice balance with no being perfect and having complex emotions. Also can a fun adventure/mystery book.

A thoroughly depressing book. Great read. Highly recommend for people interested in journalism. Good to know no matter how big the paper or story, reporters always have to fight to get the good stories published.

“There are eight rules of being a good reporter, Jake.”

This one was really good. A really fun spy romp with a bunch of misfits. Jackson Lamb deserves to be up there with George Smiley.

Loved this book. A great companion piece for anyone who has read Moby Dick as well as a great meditation on whales and our history with them. A very moving and lovely book.

I enjoyed this. It surprised me in some places. I read it mainly because it inspired Sergio Leone for a movie he never made.

An amazing history of the Gulf of Mexico that will leave you thoroughly depressed and destroyed. So strange to read a book that I am so very connected to in various ways.

I just enjoy the hell out of these despite all the horrible problems for a modern audience.

Sunday reading.

I thought this was ok. The big twist was easy to spot, especially halfway through the book when one of the main characters goes on an extended story about a similar incident. Also, there is a shift through the book in one of the main characters that I didn‘t like. I don‘t think everything to be neat and tidy, but I don‘t like figuring out stuff before the main characters because they are dense.

Not the normal book I would read, but I enjoyed it. One of those history books that shows you we have always been awful and there was no golden age.

Current stack of books I am actively reading and the notebooks I am actively writing in.

A very Elementary inspired Father‘s Day gift from my wife and son.

There was a lot more heart to this book than I thought there would be. I love the tone it set on the balance between Heaven and Hell. Reminded me a lot of my Old Testament class at Jesuit.

This is great opening.

Fun book, but damn it is a tough read. Fleming was not a modern man.