Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 11, 2019

In New York, the subways used great place to figure out what book you were going to read next.

just check out a book from the library you will have a deadline to read it which will force you to make the time to finish it

reminds me of myself: I get a new book, read a few pages, put it down, forget about it, and try to read more of it (latest obtained book is “Moroni and the Swastika: Mormons in Nazi Germany”)

I have a feeling that Rat would not be reading anything uplifting, anyway, But poor book.

How does “book” know Rat isn’t using AudioBooks to read to him.

Deleted Panel: Rat sitting on toilet.

Rat you have to make time ….. to have time for what you want in life ;-) ….. Croc Power !

“The Aztec” by Gary Jennings and “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All” by Allan Gurganus. Kipling for short stories.

Rat’s life is all booked up.

Page rage?

I’d love to be able to read as much as I used to, but after two or three pages, I get sleepy.

audio books during a commute..great way to get through books.

I’ve been reading pretty continuously lately, usually right before bed, but for the past several nights, I only make it a page or two before I’m wiped out.

With me, it’s not how many books I should read but how many I should finish…

Rat has the problem of not being able to read any book that is more than one page long.

I love dystopian and apocalyptic books. But NO zombies!

Fahrenheit 451 ;(

Recently I took a book on Roman history entitled SPQR out of the library. It is a rather thicksome book, so I asked about the library renewal policy. Renew after three weeks. I read the book in one week. Despite Mary Beard’s sometimes opaque writing style it was difficult to put down.

I don’t read that much anymore; currently I’m only working on Grateful Dead Gear: The Bands Instruments, Sound Systems And Recording Sessions 1965-1995 (for at least the 7th time; what can I say? I’m a Deadhead, guitar geek, and former sound engineer), 1634: The Baltic War, Alice I Have Been (a novel narrated as a memoir by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in her 80s), and John Lott’s More Guns, Less Crime – while awaiting the arrival of my interlibrary loan of the next few Bill Crider books.

That’s just sad

Same can be said if that was a sketch book.

Right! I’ve over 2000 books in my personal library. I’ve only read about 15% of them. I’m always wondering when I’m going to have time to read them all. Like…errr…right now…when I could be reading one of them instead of doing this….

…sigh…

Rat, I think ur being paged

Rat, I think ur being paged

Sigh…..I think about how many books I could be reading or how many useful things I could be doing, if I wasn’t sitting here reading all these comics. But, here I sit.

You have to make time. I love to read, it’s one of my great pleasures. Some days I may only have 15 or 20 minutes, but I carve out out at least that much time. I am looking forward to retirement in 3 years when I will have more time to read.

I try to read at least one book per day. Twice now I have sold off almost my entire library when we downsized, then downsized once again. Reason why my entire current library is on Kindle

The epitaph of the USA is going to be TLDR.

My version of that would be a TV bouncing around trying to get attention while I stay buried in a book…

All too familiar, Stephan….

My problem with books is the “just one more chapter” syndrome! I love reading and always did, even as a kid.

Books and I have regretfully, mostly, parted company. But my non-book devices can display text in a satisfactory font, and that’s better than nothing!

I tried to read in bed only once, when I was about 15. I had started Farnham’s Freehold by Robert Heinlein and decided to stop when I hit a slow spot. Finished the book at 6:00 AM and the chirping of the birds kept me awake.

and here I am , reading the comics…..

“There’s no time like the present.”

Sorry, little worn-out book that got stuck with chasing Rat around. I guess Kismet hated you….

One of the first Pearls comics I had ever seen. It was not love at first sight, but the puns won me over pretty quick.