1. I took a one block leisurely stroll to the dentist's office today and left with clean teeth and no problems to concern me.
2. I called Debbie upon my return. She filled me in on Saturday's party in Roscoe, Illinois and about the relaxing time she's having in the Queen City (Cincinnati) with Patrick and Meagan. It's good to know her trip is going smoothly and that I could report that things are peachy here at the homestead.
3. Right now, my main reading focus is back on Lonesome Dove in the daytime and once I finish the next day's NYTimes crossword puzzle in the evening. I'm thoroughly enjoying how Larry McMurtry plots this novel as he moves between different places to develop the storylines of different characters, stories which are all happening simultaneously. I've kind of lost track. Right now I think it's a quadruple decker story, but maybe I'm shortchanging the number of stories he's got running at the same time. As the plots develop, the characters deepen, and the book, engrossing from the start, becomes more so.
I read Willy Vlauten's The Horse when I go to bed. It's fascinating story about Al Hard, a man in his sixties, who is living in an old assay shack in a remote locale in Nevada (much like Rhys Kinnick did in Jess Walter's So Far Gone). Al looks back on his past life as a country music guitar player in various small casino and bar bands and song writer (he continues to write songs in his hermitage) and the sketchy encounters he had with different characters in the underworld of Reno.
The novel includes a horse. This part of the book is a mystery to me right now and I'm curious to see how it shapes up.
Our next book club selection is Our Moon and it's calling out to me to get started reading it. I just might see how it works to have three books going at once, but I might wait until I finish The Horse which is under 200 pages. I might finish it in the next day or two.
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