FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for August 16, 2016

I may be out of school since 2003, but I REALLY need to get some reading done myself than write GoComics comments, questions/answers on Yahoo! Answers, Facebook comments, etcetera. I’m currently and slowly reading “Captains Courageous.”

“Death by Blackhole”

I’ve got something like a dozen texts I’m forcing myself to read before I won’t feel guilty buying more.

“Equations of Life” by Simon Morden. An interesting cyberpunk novel. I met the author at a convention I worked over the summer.

@Templo S.U.D. Oh you’re just a young one. I’m out of school since 1978 and yeah CC is a bit daunting, but then so is James Clavell’s “Shogun”, and I loved that book.

I’m currently reading “The Hiding Place” by Corrie Ten Boom.

I’m reading “Time and Again” by Jack Finney for about the fourth or fifth time. I read it every few years because it’s one of my faves. Another one I would recommend is “Point of Impact” by Stephen Hunter.

Just finished “Shardik” by Richard Adams. Also a slog when I read it the first time back in high school, but I got a lot more out of it the second time around…40 years later.

I Just finished reading the new Harry Potter (H.P. and the Cursed Child) to my grandchildren via skype. Tomorrow night we start Rudyard Kipling’s “Jungle Books”.

I was lucky enough (or reading lists were never popular with schools) to not have a reading list. I love reading, but being told what to read takes a lot of the fun out of it.

Started rereading “Black Like Me”, been a long time since I last did that. So far it is every bit as good as I remember it.

Pillars of The Earth (Ken Follet) for the second time. Long book but excellent story. Its’ sequel wasn’t bad, but not up to the originals’ standards (they usually aren’t).

I never remember having summer reading assignments. But, I spent most of the summer reading anything I could find anyway. I’d go to the library every couple of weeks and check out the max on my card (7) and more on my mother’s (14).