The Last Manager, a biography of Earl Weaver. Just finished The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball. Pitchers and catches have reported. Spring Training games begin Monday. Time to get back to life.

The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball is an intriguing book on many levels. The author is a Ph.D. in classical languages (Greek, Latin) who also has studied mythology and religion, and taught across multiple disciplines in various Chicago learning institutions. He grew up a Red Sox fan and became a Cubs fan, two of baseball's most storied franchises with their own mythological stories.

The book originated from a question he was asked on the birth of his daughter while a theology student searching for an alternative to the Catholicism he was raised in: "How are you going to raise her?" His somewhat flippant response was "As a Cub fan". And over the years he did. The book takes various values from mythology, examines the original meaning and etymology of the word for each value, provides mythical examples of the value going back to Homer, Plato, and others, brings modern examples from baseball all interwoven with stories of he and his daughter at Cubs games while she grew up. Intellectually stimulating on multiple levels, just like the sport of baseball. Unlike American football and basketball imho.

It's a book written by Todd McCaffrey, Anne McCaffrey's son, called Dragons Code. In the third book of the Dragonriders of Pern series, Anne McCaffrey tells of the Oldtimers and the exile of their rebellious dissidents to the southern continent. Todd picks up one event from that book, and backfills the story.

A 3 part group - The Concise books .. Mastery, Power and Seduction by Robert Greene. A friend recommended them. Not far enough in yet to say much.

Also researching real estate investment options within Individual Retirement Accounts and other investment options / strategies for retirees.

A humorous novel called "They came from SW19" by Nigel Williams. It's a follow-up to "The Wimbledon Poisoner" - set in the London suburb where the rather famous tennis tournament is held. (I used to live there in the late 1970s/early '80s)

I once read Asimov - I robot, and got gripped by it until I finished all the stories.

My overall reading would be too much to relate, but the single most intensive focus of mine are the 14 completed novels of Charles Dickens, all at once through audiobooks, this will be an approach using multiple recordings per book, as well as repeating certain recordings.

I just started re reading Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell. It’s amazing!

I wish I could enjoy reading, all I read are text books to do with work.☹

Currently on the go The chemist by AA Dhand.
Bit of a thriller.

The Palestinian lie by O. Isaac.
Bit of an 'anti-Palestinian' rant. Supposedly disecting disinformation surrounding immigration into Israel and all the foreign interference ever since.

And Laugh out loud - short humourus stories for seniors - J Lee Ander

Instructions

I finished this last night.

I'm just reading New Yorker magasine, I'll start on a couple of novels soon.

Herbal remedies

Right now I got Dare I say it by Naomi Watts, Night divides the day by the doors and a Chris Hedges book

A novel called Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow. Really enjoying it.

its called king sorrow. kinda horror, Steven kings kid. i like it pretty well

Non-fiction

I don't know what it's called that's how thrilling it is.

THE HORNED GOD: WEIRD TALES OF THE GREAT GOD PAN edited by Michael Wheatly, a collection of short stories and poems mostly from the first half of the 1900s. A volume in the British Library collection of weird fiction

Just about to start SCREAM AT MIDNIGHT by Joseph Payne Brennan, a collection of short stories.

The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman.
It’s one of the Thursday Murder Club series.

I haven't read anything but law textbooks since last October

One of the jack reacher books on audio.

Civil War history

Patchwork girl of Oz

A Line in the Sand by James Barr about the French British division of the Middle East after WW1

Shadows Upon Time by Christopher Ruocchio and Excession by Iain M. Banks. The first is a space-opera fantasy, the second more post-humanist space opera.

Lady Death an autobiography by Lyudmila Pavlichenko the worlds most successful female sniper.

Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai. There is not one single fullstop in that book. Even the titles of each chapter are embedded in one single sentence of 300+ pages.

A book on malingering in a clinical setting

The Witcher

Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco.

When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi

Spiritual. "The Impersonal Life" by Joseph Benner

The Australian Road Rules book

The Bronze Horseman trilogy.

Fascism - A Quick Immersion, by Roger Griffin

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

The Hellbound Heart, Clive Barker

The Biography of Satan by Kersey Graves.

Woke is dead