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Brian Tracy: Eat That Frog - Get More of the Important Things Done Today

D.O.A. - Extreme Horror Collection.

Anthology of bloody and disturbing horror stories, which my wife just got me for Valentine's Day.

12 Rules For Life - Jordan Peterson

So now around page 80 of The Concubine's Secret,(Kate Furnivall) and its kind of slow, in a Russian indo- China War suburbia sense, but its still gripping and I think I'm going to leave the Blind Fury, by Lynda La Plant for a time when I want to get into the mind of a crime writer because, romance is healing and a blind remedy to any indoctrinated cause.
I don't know how I 'm doing it, must be the rare moon eclipse in my sun sign this month.

The Bay of Shadows
Samantha Wood

Tense, lots of plot, good to read.

Courtesy of a neighbor passing on her old paperbacks to mother, I’m reading The Witching Hour by Anne Rice before bed every night.

Not bad for a ten year old page turner. Thanks Amazon!
I finished the 515 pages of The Concubines Secret.. it took place in post war Soviet Russia. Obviously this girl (Lydia), was on the trail to find her long lost father whom she hadn't seen for twelve years in a prison camp.. and took along from China her bodyguard and half brother. Whilst on this journey she attempt to contact the Chinese communist embassy in Jun chow to find her lover and beckons information to Russian officials in order to see him again. They meet up in Moscow at a formal open dinner party and from there resume their secret romance. The ending was a bit vague, as she leaves behind old companions to start anew, her brother has made a secret pact with the Vory, and the reader can't tell if she safely meets her lover Chang An Lo in Hong Kong.. run by the British Embassy in the late 1920's.
My other book which I'm now resuming is Blind Fury by Lynda La Plant and I am on page 134. There are 501 pages.

The Stones of Venice (the sequel to The Seven Lamps of Architecture), by John Ruskin

I'm on my third read of Infinite Jest. It's so beautiful. I put a copy on my smallest Kindle and keep that in my purse. So when I say "I'm reading" I would ask you to picture me at a bus stop or a waiting line. I'm sort of always immersed, it's in my thoughts. Yesterday I had a huge scary appointment; I was so glad to have that book with me - except the Kindle was not charged. [Best laid plans]

I'm halfway through Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules For Life.

Just bought Laszlo Krasznahorkai's The World Goes On.

The Brothers Karamazov--yes, all of them, the offspring of Dostoevsky. Hard dogs to keep under the porch.

James Herriot's Dog Stories

On my first read of Infinite Jest, I had to make a rule for myself: Turn The Page. It was so beautiful, I could still be looking at Page 1. Yes, it's difficult at first. But don't deny yourself. Just keep reading, whether you think you got it or not.

I found it helpful to watch David Foster Wallace's interviews on YouTube - just to hear his manner of speaking made the book a little more familiar.

Good luck!

ps Author gives good comic relief.

I am currently reading The Plantagenets by Dan Jones and Testament by John Romer (The latter is a nostalgic thing too as I saw the TV series when I was young and got attached to it: the theme music, John Romers way of talking and an interesting topic so I was nostalgicly thrilled when I discovered there was a book based on the series and after all these years found it in an online secondhand bookstore in England. t felt like such luck I am so happy for it!).