It's been a busy time preparing for guests and doing deep cleaning in advance of arrival.
I'm glad all the cleaning is basically done because it is going to get far too hot for it in a few days.
After days of cleaning, I relaxed by taking photos and catching up on my reading goals. I've become very behind on my reading goals for the year and needed to make progress.
At twilight the sky is serene.
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This week has been rather warm but it is going to get very hot by Thursday. I'll probably be looking to go to a mall or movie just to sit somewhere cool
Reading Progress This Week
The Temptress by Paul Spicer. This book attempts to solve the mystery of who murdered Lord Erroll in colonial Kenya. I read this book primarily to learn more about the life and times of the early British and American settlers in Kenya. I enjoyed the quick read.
The other book,
West With The Night,
is the memoir of Beryl Markham. It doesn't follow a chronological order of events in her life. Instead it focuses on her life as an
aviatrix and to a lesser degree on her experience as a horse trainer. I
enjoyed the first half of the book a lot. About half way through I got
tired of the style of writing and the lack of detail about other facets
of her life.
However, Beryl Markham had high praise from the well known author, Ernest Hemingway who had this to say about her book
"Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night?
...She has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely
ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter
with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing
them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen. But this girl, who
is to my knowledge very unpleasant and we might even say a high-grade
b*, can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as
writers ... it really is a bloody wonderful book."
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I also made some good progress on a few of the books on
raw food eating that I took out of the library a few weeks ago.
New Book Started
The new book I've started is a musical memoir written by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics.
Have a great week everyone!
(Note: Blogger seems to be doing funny things. It published my post twice but failed to publish several comments I've approved. I apologize to Melanie, Joanne, Teresa, Eileen and Sally. I don't know why your comments will not publish. Thank you for taking time to leave a comment. I'm hoping they will yet appear).