The Nameless
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I'm about to get the train to my brother's so I'll be reading 11.22.63 on my kobo mini for a bit. If I get too engrossed I it I may well do a full reread, it is one of my favourites after all.
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i actually just started this book, which is why i didn't think of it, and yes, that's correct. he moved into the house on july 3rd. don't know how long it goes on because i'm far from the finish, but i guess it qualifies
Reading the Maligned King by Annette Carson. Reading it for Balance. Most portraits of Richard III still tend to lean towards the Tudorsources even if they are a bit more careful now than were say 50 years ago. Shakespeare took his "facts" straight from Hall and Holinshed, historians living under and paid by Henry VII and Henry VIII. The same with Polydore Virgil. And of course Thomas More. It was in their interest to flatter the new regime and to make the old one look as evil as possible. Valuable sources but to be handled extremely carefully when it comes to evaluation of deeds and motivs behind Richards actions. So far this Carson person is right but then when she in her turn starts to speculate with actions and thoughts of Lord Rivers and Lord Dorset (Edward IV,s (Richard III,s older brother) queens sons in an earlier marriage) and Henry Tudors you must watch out because she tends to see it mostly in Richards light. It is a necessary book because i am frankly tired of all the historians of the period that covers the subject to not even mention the many facts that points in Richards way. Most of them know there is a questionmark there but brush it under the rug and continues with their story. I just think she comes down too hard on Richards side from time to time.
But in her critique of the sources she is absolutely right. That is something we, as readers of history, tend to forget. That all the writers of them lived in different times with their agenda and their masters to please. Subsequentially their writings should be seen in that light but seldom are. Thomas More, for example, was 7 when Richard died. He was Chancellor during Henry VIII and grow up in the household of John Morton, Bishop of Ely, and this morton was one of Richards archenemies. Historians have long known all this stuff and for centuries believed that Mores History of Richard III to be the absolute truth, (withered arm, Hunchback and many more things that are simply false). How they could believe that knowing his background is beyond me. They should at least have asked themselves "How much ishe influenced by John Morton in his opinions? Since Richards body was found some years ago it could be seen from the remains that he had Scoliosis which led to him having the right shoulder higher than the left but nothing more. He was from all accounts a wellrespected soldier and leader of armies. Most of what More says in his history has today been proven inventions or lies. Some scholars even think it wasn't meant as a history but a fiction, a historical novel. Whatever his intent, which we dont know, the book has caused huge damage to the real history.
But in her critique of the sources she is absolutely right. That is something we, as readers of history, tend to forget. That all the writers of them lived in different times with their agenda and their masters to please. Subsequentially their writings should be seen in that light but seldom are. Thomas More, for example, was 7 when Richard died. He was Chancellor during Henry VIII and grow up in the household of John Morton, Bishop of Ely, and this morton was one of Richards archenemies. Historians have long known all this stuff and for centuries believed that Mores History of Richard III to be the absolute truth, (withered arm, Hunchback and many more things that are simply false). How they could believe that knowing his background is beyond me. They should at least have asked themselves "How much ishe influenced by John Morton in his opinions? Since Richards body was found some years ago it could be seen from the remains that he had Scoliosis which led to him having the right shoulder higher than the left but nothing more. He was from all accounts a wellrespected soldier and leader of armies. Most of what More says in his history has today been proven inventions or lies. Some scholars even think it wasn't meant as a history but a fiction, a historical novel. Whatever his intent, which we dont know, the book has caused huge damage to the real history.
I have just finished City of Thieves by David Benioff and I would recommend it unhesitatingly to everyone. I picked it up on a whim when I was struggling to make a decision about what to read next and it turned out to be one of the finest books I have ever read.
Receiving my new Cemetery Dance edition of The Shining led me to read it again and when I finished that I picked up Dr Sleep again. So I'm cruising through Dr Sleep right now. Whenever I read one of Steve's books, it seems that I always need to read another one. I can't just read one.
SK books are the potato chips of literature.
"Golden Hill" by Francis Spufford. Set in mid-1700's New York. Not exactly the same but a good way to pass the time during the long wait for the next of Robert McCammon's Matthew Corbett series.
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford review – a frolicsome first novel | Books | The Guardian
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford review – a frolicsome first novel | Books | The Guardian
Reading The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick. And mostly through the Talisman. And stalled on DT7 because I don't want to read the sad parts. And reading the Miss Fortune cozy mysteries. I may need a 12-step program! 
while we were away i knocked out Match Up, also knocked out Bag of Bones, Revival and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (first time for all), which finally puts me at having read all the King books I own, have to start looking for the ones I'm missing), and now I'll probably start on Come To Dust by Bracken McCleod and Bleed by Ed Kurtz which were the two books in my first nocturnal readers box, both relatively short and easy
I read Robert Bloch's first novel The Scarf. Pretty good for a 1st book. Shades of Psycho all throughout. Also read Still Talking by the late Joan Rivers. She sure went through a lot during her time on her talk show thanks to the Fox executives. This covers her life after her husband committed suicide. Finished Freedom Of The Mask by Robert McCammon. Left me wanting more!
....he is the Lay's Potato Chip of writing.....
Just finished Peter Straub's latest, The Process...received my signed, limited edition from Subterranean Press a few days ago. It's beautiful!
Now I'm reading The Child, which is the latest from Fiona Barton.
Now I'm reading The Child, which is the latest from Fiona Barton.
It's like buying a pint of Ben and Jerry's and trying to stop after eating half of it.
I'm about halfway through The Waste Lands; I'm rereading the Dark Towoer series, which got me through a very tough year in 2005. Escapism at its best...although, as with almost all of SK, it's not escapism at its truest. There are too many echoes from real life to make it a total escape.
Anyway, it's wonderful to reexperience Roland's journey...not to mention Jake's, Susannah's, and Eddie's. The entire saga is masterful.
Anyway, it's wonderful to reexperience Roland's journey...not to mention Jake's, Susannah's, and Eddie's. The entire saga is masterful.
Time and Again by Jack Finney. A first rate science fiction classic and one the finest time travel novels ever written . If you've never read it then you missing out on a really great book ! 
Jack Finney also wrote the classic science fiction novel Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Jack Finney also wrote the classic science fiction novel Invasion of the Body Snatchers
My favs are:
New York Super Fudge Chunk
Cherry Garcia
Chunky Monkey
Haggen Dazs is my choice for coffee ice cream.
OK, enough! I'm turning the thread back over to books.
My favs are:
New York Super Fudge Chunk
Cherry Garcia
Chunky Monkey
Haggen Dazs is my choice for coffee ice cream.
OK, enough! I'm turning the thread back over to books.
Last night I started Dust by Patricia Cornwell. It's nice to be back in touch with the characters Cornwell has created. I was just telling Morgan that I'll read one of my Fannie Flagg books in my TBR pile to cleanse my pallet after reading Dust. I'm finding that my taste in books, television shows and movies is changing a little bit recently. I'm not so much going towards the darker stuff anymore. Guess life is dark enough what with what's on the news anymore....
Gracious Host says writers need to read, so since I'm pretending to be a writer, I thought I'd pretend to read.
I was browsing the library and John Updike jumped out at me. Never read him. He's a respected, classic writer. I picked up The Witches of Eastwick and took it home.
Started on it the next night.
Returned it to the library the day after, and not in a good way.
I couldn't get past three pages of it, at which point I'd already read several times about how the speaker steamrolled her R's in her New England way, and it was so distracting that I wasn't even following the dialogue itself. Seriously, I was over the story about five minutes. I thought of getting through the next couple hundred pages in the same slogging fashion, and my very will to live began to diminish.
Grandma gave me an international thriller to get through instead. I'm partway into that, and it's fine, although I can't remember the title or the author at the moment. While we were in Portland at Powell's (what a wonderful bookstore), I picked up Mr. Mercedes. Gracious Host rarely lets me down.
I was browsing the library and John Updike jumped out at me. Never read him. He's a respected, classic writer. I picked up The Witches of Eastwick and took it home.
Started on it the next night.
Returned it to the library the day after, and not in a good way.
I couldn't get past three pages of it, at which point I'd already read several times about how the speaker steamrolled her R's in her New England way, and it was so distracting that I wasn't even following the dialogue itself. Seriously, I was over the story about five minutes. I thought of getting through the next couple hundred pages in the same slogging fashion, and my very will to live began to diminish.
Grandma gave me an international thriller to get through instead. I'm partway into that, and it's fine, although I can't remember the title or the author at the moment. While we were in Portland at Powell's (what a wonderful bookstore), I picked up Mr. Mercedes. Gracious Host rarely lets me down.
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