Blogcation

The Madison (Wisconsin) public library system is outstanding.  I have been a user (and supporter) since arriving in town over 25 years ago.   I routinely monitor the new acquisitions list and place requests.  When you are 27th or 83rd on the wait list there is no way to know when the book will arrive on your shelf at your local branch.  

This week I hit the jackpot.  Suddenly multiple requests were fulfilled all at once.  Foucault's Pendulum is an "old" (1980s) book by the author of The Name of the Rose, and has been called "the thinking man's Da Vinci Code.  Flesh won the Booker Prize for 2025.  Savage Peace; Hope and Fear in America, 1919 is a scholarly study of the post-WWI era in the United States when our society was under surprising and serious stress.  The Overstory, by the author of Playground, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Pulitzer.

Two thousand pages to read.  I'm not a speed-reader because I take notes for possible blogging.  Since there are people waiting for several of these, I need to say good-bye to you guys for a week or more.  There is one room in our house that gets bright sunshine on winter afternoons, and if the cats will let me share it I will spend my time there rather than doomscrolling the internet.  I'll just have to hope that nothing important happens in the coming week.