The Reading Life
I still like to read but I've not had good luck finding new books that scratch the itch. There's been a few I really enjoyed.: "The Passenger" by my favorite author, Cormac McCarthy and "The Library at Mount Char" by Scott Hawkins. And I, recently, enjoyed "The Mountain in the Sea" by Ray Nayler. It's about intelligent Cephalopods and I do love my Mollusca. But the list of books I put down after a few pages is far taller. A couple fall into the category of ones I know I'll read someday, but I just wasn't in the right mood. For example, "Anathem" and "Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World", Others fall into the "what was I thinking" category. I wont name these. I just did not like the writing. I do have to mention the premise of one of the did-not-finish books as it still makes me chuckle: man-eating mer-people. I even gave that one two tries. I heard about it from YouTube, where someon