The bumble bees are working my flowers. Until this last week, I have not had nearly as many bumble bees on the flowers as in previous years. I am thinking it has something to do with the bee die out. Now, at least we have a few.
I spent the weekend reading.
The Jefferson book, I really enjoyed this one. It was an examination of did Jefferson have a slave Mistress. It was written like a debate. There was not much about the 'story' so Helen would not like this one. I read almost every word. Only skipped a few pages.
A primate’s Memory by Robert M. Sapolsky. I really enjoyed this one. It was about a researchers experiences in Africa researching baboons. It covered a period of about 20 years. He lived there long enough to get to know a lot about the regular people and his writing about both the baboons and people was interesting. Not sentimental. I read all the parts about the baboons and about half the parts about the people. I especially skipped the parts about the awful killing wars. I do not like to read things that leave me feeling bad and books about the terrible lives some people live, make me feel bad. They need help, and I can not help.
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat. This was a very good book. I read about 75% of it. It was about a Canadian hired by the Canadian government to go to the 'barrens' and research the wolf problem about 1969 or somewhere along there (I forgot). It was funny. He made fun of himself and his ideas throughout the book. He got to know an Eskimo that helped him and told things about the man's life that were interesting. It was not sentimental. I do not like sentimental.
The Lost, a search for six of six million by Daniel Mendelsohn. I liked this book. It is a very big book and I guess I read about half of it. It was about Daniel searching for death dates for his great uncle and the uncle's wife and children during WWII. They were in Poland. He spent years researching this and traveled all over the world interviewing people that either were there or had been there and heard what happened to some of the people in this little Polish town his Uncle was from. He recorded the interviews and then transcribed most of them word for word. Some of that was hard to read. The last 2 or 3 chapters were the most interesting, but much of the book was hard to get into and if something in a book does not interest me, I skip ahead to try to find something that does interest me. He recorded one story of a man from this same Polish town that left the town a few days before the German's showed up and walked all the way to inland China, then joined a Russian military unit, went back to Germany and was there when the Russians entered Berlin. I read every word of that story.
None of the other books were worth bothering with. The Larry kidney book, I read 4 or 5 pages at the beginning of the book, 3 pages at the end, about 2 pages in the next to last chapter and threw it in the trash. Well, not really, I have to take it back to the library, but if it was my book, I would throw it in the burn barrel. It was a stupid book about stupid people. The others were just boring.
Now you know. Helen, run out and get the Jefferson book so you can go get a burn barrel to burn it in.
2 comments:
I loved the Jefferson book. I am convinced...he was the father of at least some of her kids.
I read a book yesterday written about Barbaro by his jockey...I picked it up at the library yesterday before I took Benjamin in to see their free movie...I read it while he watched the movie. When we were ready to leave I told him we could turn it back in because I had read it...He said "But Granny, you`ve only read it once," With Benjamin`s books we read them many times before we return them...Patsy needs to start doing that it would cut down on the books she has to lug home...
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