Top 5 Books Read 2013

Top 5 Books Read 2013

1. Dark Tide The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 -                                                                       Stephen Puleo
2. Rosemary's Baby                                        - Ira Levin
3. Arguably: Essays                           - Christopher Hitchens
4. The French Lieutenant's Woman                   -John Fowles
5. Cloud Atlas                                              - David Mitchell

Today's Haiku

Whisk of White Clouds:
realist painting of Florida;
a Blue Sky Portrait.

Literary Heroes

Charles Bukowski is one of my literary heroes.   I was awakened to the grimy reality by his life, prose, and ironic poems.   Maybe, he was an awakening to my own madness.