Hi Helen: thanks for your input. I wonder when Biden will announce? I’m not sure about Harris but would get behind her … I also like Val Demings quite a bit. Let’s cross our fingers for a great ticket.

Yeah Catherine: I can totally understand about book choices … we need good stories and/or attention grabbers right now. Anything less could well go by the wayside! The Last Dance is something I really want to watch … but not sure my hub, a Canadian, cares about the NBA etc. so I might have to sneak watch it sometime. I remember all the Bulls’ / & Jordan’s championships so I’m well familiar with those times & games — so it would be really interesting to see the backstory etc. riveting I’m sure! As for VP …. could he be leaning towards Val Demings? hmm. a former Police chief? Who knows … yet. but I like her.

Such interesting books! I’m especially glad to hear your thoughts on The End of October. It was a dicey choice for me because I had to ditch another apocalyptic novel and anything slow moving is not going to work. I’ll keep it unread for now! Same thing for Heft. I really loved Long Bright River, but something depressing about loneliness? Not a good idea for me.

As you can tell my reading is hit or miss these days. Instead, I’m binging on ESPN’s The Last Dance about Micheal Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. It’s riveting.

Hi Heather: this is Lawrence Wright’s debut for fiction and it turns pretty well. I’ve always wanted to read The Looming Tower … but never went beyond more than the first couple chapters. I liked the TV series with Jeff Daniels of it, see it if you can!
I will try out Octavia Butler this summer! Thanks for your nudge to do so.
The VP choices all seem pretty good to me. I sort of like Val Demings for some reason – perhaps she seems tough to withstand the onslaught and speaks well. But your guess on who it will be is as good as mine! take care.

Hi — yeah it might seem at first that Wright has trouble pulling back from all the research and making it a compelling story … but I think he does fairly well … considering he’s primarily a nonfiction author. Many in the field it seems knew such a threat from a disease could or would likely happen so he took from that. It’s interesting to compare the details of his story with today’s. Luckily they diverge along the way, but have some similarities too.
I wonder if I will make public my summer reading list — perhaps I should. I sort of like to grab wherever my mood takes me.

Memory Police has been on my radar. I should pick it up. Dystopia and sci-fi are very intertwined. I think you’d like sci-fi overall. Pick up Octavia Butler for sure. I read her Earthseed series which is one of my favorites and Kindred.

I’ve had The Looming Tower and Wright’s book on Scientology on my list as well. I didn’t know he wrote fiction too! I think this would be up my ally. I’ll have to get a hold of it this summer. Yay!h

Hi Ti, wow Michelle Obama … that would be wild if she got in and a big boost. But I figure she doesn’t want it. hmm. She did her 8 years, I gather. Though I think it’d be great if she changed her mind, ha. I look forward to your review of the King book … I haven’t heard much about it. I think you’d like The Memory Police … it’s a first person kind of narrative and a dystopian story.
Glad to hear you got out to Palm Springs, nice!

Biden’s picks. None of them do it for me. Sadly. I really want a big surprise like Michelle Obama! I just don’t see how he will win with those possibilities.