I am currently ‘reading’ 9 books. I put that in quotes, because I really have almost given up on the two bottom books in the stack, both of which I started last summer. February will be my last go with them and if I don’t make any progress, I’ll abandon them; which I don’t like to do, but you know, life is short. I’m exactly 60% of the way done with the Paul Johnson tome. I seem to average about a 100 pages a month on it so I should be done by late May. The Great Hunt is getting a bit more interesting, but I will not continue with The Wheel of Time series. It is just average and comes nowhere near LOTRs. The top five books in the stack, the ones I started most recently, are all enjoyable. I imagine the Kelton book will be finished next.

Today at Powell’s I picked up a novel I’ve heard a lot of good things about called Stoner by British writer John Williams. It came out in the 1960s, but apparently went a bit viral in the oughts. It currently has more than a quarter million ratings on Goodreads. Glad to add it to my TBR pile.