Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for December 23, 2020

…..mostly comic books.

Gotta agree with Cosmo, though I have read 4 of Shakespeare’s plays.

From a Harlan Ellison story, ‘Paladin of the Lost Hour,’ “Who wants to own a bunch of books they already read??”

I have quite a few books. Most I’ve read, but have several that I’m waiting on the right opportunity to read them. My book case is full so I have to get rid of some of them.

Shakespeare, yes. Although my copy has all of the stage directions in it and is a bit difficult to follow.

I have one pile of nonfiction (all kinds), one pile of Agatha Christie (there’s a reason she’s the best-selling novelist of all time) and one of P. G. Wodehouse (a master stylist and satirist). The last three forays I made into contemporary fiction were The Swans of Fifth Avenue, The Guest List, and Cover Her Face. Not one redeeming quality about ANY of the people featured. . .

That is what Amazon’s free books have done to me. My Kindle is full of impressive titles, but I am desperately looking for light reading.

““A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” Mark Twain.

I’ve actually read the complete works of Shakespeare. He was a LOT earthier than they taught us in school. They have cleaned up a lot of his stuff over the years, so make sure to find the unexpurgated versions.

read into the mouth of the cat ,a good read, very inspiring like reading Yeager’s life story

If its on my bookshelves then I’ve read it

Well over 200, thats just the ones I kept

The ones on top I haven’t read yet, only a couple of dozen there

I think Cosmo’s “read” pile all have a DC or Marvel logo on them!

Cosmo! She is saying she wants to go home with you to “ checkout your books!”

But you would have to turn over a new leaf…..

It would figure that I just watched the Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough at Last”

Opening narration:

Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is

the printed page, but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-

cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment, Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank

presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He’ll have a world all to himself… without anyone.