As Robert Burns has been quoted to say, "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang oft agley."
I was making headway in a few books and actually ordered and received 2 more:
"P. T. Barnum" by P. T. Barnum
"Slaughterhouse 5" by Kurt Vonnegut
The Barnum book is huge and turned out to be tedious. The Vonnegut book turned out to be a study guide ala Cliff Notes. Both went on to the TBR pile.
I started to get very weak and my interest started to slip again. I found it difficult to concentrate but I did manage to order several more books before being admitted to the hospital. I had them delivered to a friend's house and she brought them over.
"Davey Crocket" by David Crockett (his Autobiography)
"Dracula" by Bram Stoker
"Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne
"Tales of Mystery and Imagination" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Divine Comedy" by Dante (Not just "The Inferno" but all 3 sections in 1 volume.)
I've started the Verne book while waiting for a transfusion. Of course, between the hurry-up-and-wait attitudes of the doctors and the social isolation I find myself surfing my favorite book sites. I jut ordered:
"In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
"The Portable Oscar Wilde"
"The Island of Dr. Moreau" by H. G. Wells
They just hooked me up for the transfusion so I'll go back to Verne for a while.
I'll be heading to a Physical Therapy Center tomorrow for a couple of days and I have plenty of reading material to fill the down time.
I'll be back again so ..
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