What Fiction are you reading this week, February 3, 2019?

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15. White Fire sounds interesting

i put it on my for later library list. i'm reading The Charter House of Parma. it's a tale of court intrigue and ungoverned passion set in Northern Italy after the fall of Napoleon. The pace is brisk and the plot follows the checkered career of a headstrong young noblemen who is made a bishop at age 24 but can't seem to stay out of trouble.

i'm also reading a collection of humorous stories put together by Russell Baker who died last week. My favorites so far are the ones by Mark Twain, who is laugh out loud funny. I also enjoy Thurber, Robert Benchley and Garrison Keilor, who stand about knee high to Twain. Everyone else is just barking around his ankles.

Cheers, Hermetic.