Ringo: "You can learn from boooks!"
Yeah, I know. Five years and two months since my last blog entry. Gonna try and do better, but I’ve said that before… These days I buy and acquire books the way I used to do with albums. When I say albums, I mean vinyl, tapes, CDs, and downloads. Somehow streaming and acquisition don’t seem to relate to each other. This all came about when Rosser and I, along with our good friends Cindy and Mark, decided to turn our occasional home-and-away dinner evenings to a monthly bookclub, since most bookclubs are famously excuses for getting together and drinking wine and eating. If I get too many books, and I probably already have, the backlog gets a mite unwieldy. After all, a good album may resonate and stay in your mind for a few hours, but the actual experience of listening usually takes 45 minutes to an hour, maybe less if we’re talking about vinyl. It takes me two or three weeks to finish a book, maybe less if I have a lot of time on my hands. That hasn’t been the case for most of my
