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I went to the library with the basic strategy of just enjoying my "Rabid" for my main reading, and to pick up a Shakespeare play that I don't have, perhaps "Much Ado About Nothing". As an extension to that, thinking that I am likely to finish "Rabid" in a few days or so, I was open to picking up another non-fiction book, or perhap finally picking up another historical novel by the authoress who wrote "Mary Called Magdalene".
On the new book shelves, I found "The Battle for America 2008" by Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson on the 2008 presidential election. That looked like tasty candy, though I was disappointed that it was not "Game Change", another book on the election which got a lot of buzz recently and seemed to have the hotter scoops on the inside dope.
Then, I also saw a new biography on Marcus Aurelius, as well as a promising volume on the early Middle Ages, and I struggled whether to get one of those for a while. However, this late in my life, I am able to be more realistic about my appetites, and I stuck with the candy, something which might deepen my understanding of the current political situation.
Then, it was a trip to the Shakespeare section on the next floor. I was still doubtful about what I was doing, because I thought that I might have a good enough grasp on the deal with Obama, Clinton, and McCain and Palin. In this befuddled state, I was looking up the plays, when I discovered a new stream of wonderful exegetic work on the plays, "The Masks of" series by Marvin Rosenberg.
These books provide something of a walk-thru for the plays, and it is indepth enough to thrill those who have some appreciable familiarity with the work. I'm so delighted with this selection that I've put "Rabid" back on the hit-and-run track. These "Masks of" books are apparently out of print, too, save perhaps for the one on Hamlet, and I'm thinking about buying that one straight off, though the price gives me a nosebleed at seventy dollars.
Switching off between "The Masks of King Lear" for my main reading and T. K. Kenyon's "Rabid" for my side reading, this is what I know as Heaven. Sometimes I can be very pleased with my life.
On the new book shelves, I found "The Battle for America 2008" by Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson on the 2008 presidential election. That looked like tasty candy, though I was disappointed that it was not "Game Change", another book on the election which got a lot of buzz recently and seemed to have the hotter scoops on the inside dope.
Then, I also saw a new biography on Marcus Aurelius, as well as a promising volume on the early Middle Ages, and I struggled whether to get one of those for a while. However, this late in my life, I am able to be more realistic about my appetites, and I stuck with the candy, something which might deepen my understanding of the current political situation.
Then, it was a trip to the Shakespeare section on the next floor. I was still doubtful about what I was doing, because I thought that I might have a good enough grasp on the deal with Obama, Clinton, and McCain and Palin. In this befuddled state, I was looking up the plays, when I discovered a new stream of wonderful exegetic work on the plays, "The Masks of" series by Marvin Rosenberg.
These books provide something of a walk-thru for the plays, and it is indepth enough to thrill those who have some appreciable familiarity with the work. I'm so delighted with this selection that I've put "Rabid" back on the hit-and-run track. These "Masks of" books are apparently out of print, too, save perhaps for the one on Hamlet, and I'm thinking about buying that one straight off, though the price gives me a nosebleed at seventy dollars.
Switching off between "The Masks of King Lear" for my main reading and T. K. Kenyon's "Rabid" for my side reading, this is what I know as Heaven. Sometimes I can be very pleased with my life.
