So finally this coming week, Tuesday, to be exact, is my surgery (arthroscopy on left knee to repair a degenerative meniscus). And while obviously I’m looking forward to getting my knee fixed, and not being in pain (duh!), I’m perhaps even looking forward more to convalescing for two weeks off work, which includes Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon this coming Saturday. I’m also looking forward to my wife and I catching up on a few TV shows on Netflix and Amazon Prime over the next couple of weeks.
Last week after announcing that I was “starting with a clean slate again,” I did just that, by returning all of my library books, both physical and virtual, and canceling all of my holds. And even though I said I wouldn’t let you know what I chose next until after I read it, as I am apt to do, I’ve changed my mind and now will let you know what I’ve already started plus a few recent purchases and books I’ve checked out from the library this past week that are among my potential reads for the next two weeks.
What I’m reading and plan to finish today
The Best American Poetry 2014, edited by Terrance Hayes, guest editor, and David Lehman, series editor
What I might read in the next two weeks
Physical books
Four Novels: The Sun Also Rises; A Farewell to Arms; For Whom The Bell Tolls; The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Heaven, My Home (A Highway 59 Mystery Book 2) by Attica Locke
Orphan X (Orphan X, #1) by Gregg Hurwitz
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
I purchased the Hemingway collection this past Wednesday from our library’s bookstore. I’m not normally into tomes like that in print, but this one, the print wasn’t too small so I thought I’d get it and The Sun Also Rises reminded me that I had an ebook I had purchased a while ago, but hadn’t gotten to read yet. As for the others: 1.) Our library’s book club just read Where The Crawdads Sing and after months of not being available at our library, it became available so I thought why not? 2.) I read Bluebird, Bluebird the first Highway 59 Mystery by Attica Locke and enjoyed it. I also had had this second one on hold on ebook at The Free Library of Philadelphia, but the wait was six months! So when this came in at our library, I scooped it up, with no wait. 3.) I like Gregg Hurwitz, but have been hesitating on the Orphan X series. Now we’ll see if I really want to read it. 5.) The Graveyard Book I reread every year for Halloween.
Virtual books
Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises by Lesley M.M. Blume
Ruth Galloway Series: The First Three Novels by Elly Griffiths
The Lord God Made Them All (All Creatures Great and Small Book 4) by James Herriot
The Cuckoo’s Calling (Cormoran Strike Book 1) by Robert Galbraith
A Morbid Taste for Bones (The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael Book 1) by Ellis Peters
The book about Hemingway will make a perfect companion to The Sun Also Rises for Saturday’s readathon, I think. Three of the other four are the starts of series I’ve always thoughts about reading and the Herriot is the continuation of a series I restarted two years ago.
What we plan on watching in the next two weeks
Mindhunter, Season 2 on Netflix
Good Omens, Season 1 on Amazon Prime
Narcos Mexico, Season 1 on Netflix
Money Heist, Season 2 on Netflix
Criminal: UK, France, Germany, and Spain on Netflix
We have started watching the Narcos and Money Heist, but have yet to get to the other three.
If you missed this earlier this week
I’ll leave you with a little music from Floating Points:
What are you reading this week? Anything good? Watching, listening to, doing anything cool? Let me know in the comments.
Still an unfinished person... 