Kind of odd that Facebook technology can’t tell spammers from a forgetful old man. It’s probably best if I start writing all the crud needed to log in down. Life is kind of interesting in the “modern” world.
It still strikes me odd to read one book at a time. Back when I was working full time, taking college courses and teaching at the local college at night, I was reading three books at a time. One at the breakfast table, one in the car for running and waiting for Debby here and there, and one at work to read at lunch. One book is weird. Laying in bed to read I end up with a cat on my chest, and if I sit in the old leather chair she sits or lays in my lap. I thought as a young man that at this stage of life I would need care and instead find myself playing nursemaid to a cat. It’s nice to have some permanence in life. A cat though? My sons have dogs. The neighbors all have dogs. I have a cat...and why is she in charge? I screwed up bad somewhere.
Still reading the first Tarzan book, switching back to LL soon...might do them in pub date order this go around...or maybe backwards pub date order. They all stand on their own, and I ain’t tried that yet.
"We don't have any law here. Just a graveyard." LL from TREASURE MOUNTAIN
Yup dogs and cats are weird. Had a neighbor when I was growing up that had a dog and cat. The cat would lay so the dog could take it’s head in it’s mouth. The dog would walk around the yard dragging the cat around by its whole head. Craziest thing you’d ever want to see. The two of them were best buds, but no one knew how their crazy ritual started. That cat was totally relaxed with it’s head inside the dog’s mouth while the dog dragged it around the yard.
"We don't have any law here. Just a graveyard." LL from TREASURE MOUNTAIN
I started reading LL when I was a kid, back in the 70s. My older brothers bought them as they came out, and then I started, as my brothers left home, to buy my own. So, the first way I read many LLs were in published order. Re: Tarzan- I've always enjoyed reading ERB fantasy novels. It wasn't until I read Son of Tarzan to my boys (when they were 8 and 10) that I discovered ERB writes run-on sentences. It was a chore to read aloud, to keep the drama alive, when a sentence was long and unwieldy. I never tried to read them aloud after that. (But, the 'reveal' about 'Bwana' was certainly worth the effort, as my boys reacted!)
