I don’t want to make this all about me, so I’ll invite others to share what they have on the table next to the Barcolounger. Now for my input. . .
While I was pushing my double-wide shopping cart through Sam’s, I passed by the book section. Pickings are slim, but inexpensive. I found a collection of Sherlock Holmes and stories by the Brothers Grimm. That might be worth saving for the day the grandkids get older.
And then this brick of gold hove into view! A biography of Mark Twain by Ron Chernow! The author also wrote a biography of Alexander Hamilton upon which the fabulous musical is based. But don’t hold that against him. It weighs almost 3 ½ pounds, and comes to 1174 pages, including notes, bibliography, and index. Now that I have my summer reading project lined up, I have to wonder what I could possibly learn that I don’t already know. I have 26 books on my shelf, half of which are about the American Master, the rest written by him.
One of the most charming books in my collection of Twain is a biography one of his three daughters wrote when she was thirteen. If Susy Clemens “didn’t use any sandpaper” in describing him, as her father claimed, I guess Chernow will give us an unvarnished view as well.
I’d better get started. The first week of June is almost done.