Book. Books. Reading. Coronavirus lockdown. 2020.
I would suspect that more books have been read so far this year during the Coronavirus lockdown than were read during the same period last year. You can probably say he same thing about jig saw puzzles completed.
Personally, I have wanted for a long time to read the books by Craig Childs. I’ve heard him talk. My friends are really into his books. So – the lockdown has given me the opportunity to do just that. I’m reading them in the order they were written – at least so far as I can tell from Google and Amazon.com.
The first book I read as a paperback – The Secret Knowledge of Water. The Way Out, House of Rain and Atlas of a Lost World followed on Kindle. Not done with the last one yet.
Speaking of books, I have a new granddaughter. During our self-isolation with her one of the things I’ve learned relates to a baby’s developing eyesight during the first couple of months. They supposedly are able to see contrasty black and white objects easier than others. As a result, there is a small soft cover book for entertaining them.
I also noticed that the one visual thing she fixates on is a large ceiling fan in the living room. While I am carrying her in my arms walking her, everytime I walk under the ceiling fan she stops squirming or crying or whatever, her eyes get big as she spots the fan and her head swivels so that her eyes can follow it. I’ll stop for a moment and she just stares at it in amazement.
Anyway, today has been a tough day. Got to bed at 7:00am after grandparenting the baby overnight. Up at noon for breakfast cooked by my amazing wife, Jill. Took a nap from 2:00pm until 4:30pm. Blogged for awhile. Ate my late afternoon lunch snack and am now writing this. I think I’m done.
So long for today.
arizonamike 