Friday, January 22, 2021
Grumpy
I just got done trying to place an order for delivery with Walmart. I have a 15
day free trial period. But Walmart snd I are having a tough time arranging a
meeting of the minds. I am grumpy, as often happens nowadays. I had a procedure
Monday and got sick immediately. The hospital said it was pneumonia. However,
they did not hear it through their stethescopes.Anyway, I now have a bunch of
pills to take at varying times of the day.A very modest pneumonia. I want to
thank Reader Tat for recommend ing Philip Kerr. I am now reaading one of his
books right now. thanks, Tat. Can IO recommend an author to you? Lionel
Davidson. You can get his output on Abebooks. The rose of Tibet is one of my
favorites. Try him and see whether you like him.
I don't always like authorz I am supposed to like. I'm not saying they are
not good, they just don't suit me. Faulkner is one writer I don't have much
time for. I concede that he is brilliant and a genius. I just don't want to
read him. If I had been assigned his work when I was in college, I might have
enjoyed his work. I read Fitsgerald in college.But he is a more accessible
writer. Faulkner is a lot of work, like Beowulf, another book not on my top
50 favorites list.
Miriam, pneumonia is usually accompanied by high fever. How's your temperature? Are you coughing? I'm, unfortunately, familiar with it - spent 2 weeks in a children hospital because of it when I was 11; for another two weeks afterwards had to get antibiotic shots (from sanitized steel syringes...very few people know what that is now). You got to have someone monitoring you, how do you feel. It's a nasty thing, pneumonia, persistent.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're reading the book I recommended. Not sure if you like it - or, maybe, in no condition right now to read the kind of books Kerr wrote.
I will look for Lionel Davidson, thanks for recommendation.
Get well and write often!