WHAT have you finished reading recently? The Battle Cry of Freedom, James McPherson. Review in progress. I have three more ACW books stacking up: Confederate Women, by Bell Irwin Wiley; 1858, by Bruce Chadwick; and The Civil War: An Aerial Portrait by Sam Abell.

WHAT are you reading now? Nothing immediately, as I just finished a thousand page history book, though I am reading bits of Deadly Passions, Dangerous Sins, a review of how Orthodox monks adopted practices to combat anger, etc that modern psychology has some similarities to. I am also listening to an Audible production of The Silver Chair, but it’s early days yet: Eustace and Jill have only just met Puddleglum.

WHAT are you reading next? I need to return to the zombie insects book for my biology read and then knock out something for local astronomy. I was hoping Starry Messenger would work for that category but it was far too general. I also began nosing into a Martin van Buren biography. As part of my America @ 250 reading next year, I want to begin filling out my presidential biographies list. It’s fairly dismal at the moment. I may post it as a page next year….we shall see.