In the New Yorker...

[Jeff Wrangler]

Glad to hear you are again receiving your print issues, FRiend.

I have allowed myself to fall so far behind. I brought two issues with me to my dad's, and I just haven't felt like reading them.

[Front-Ranger]

One should take a New Yorker vacation periodically.

Since I was driving around a lot I picked up two audiobooks from the library. One was a Tony Hillerman mystery set in New Mexico where I was going. Another was a #1 Ladies Detective Agency book by Alexander McCall Smith, set in Botswana. I love the dialect.

[Jeff Wrangler]

Since I was driving around a lot I picked up two audiobooks from the library. One was a Tony Hillerman mystery set in New Mexico where I was going. Another was a #1 Ladies Detective Agency book by Alexander McCall Smith, set in Botswana. I love the dialect.

Which Hillerman? I think I've read them all in paperback. Earlier this year I donated them to the book room in my building because I didn't anticipate reading them again.

Hillerman himself was as interesting a character as Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee.

[Front-Ranger]

Dark Winds was the name of it. I've also read Talking God which was good, but not much of it was set in the Southwest. I got introduced to Tony Hillerman by way of his daughter. She has a new novel The Way of the Bear which is set in the Bear's Ears area.

[Jeff Wrangler]

Dark Winds was the name of it. I've also read Talking God which was good, but not much of it was set in the Southwest. I got introduced to Tony Hillerman by way of his daughter. She has a new novel The Way of the Bear which is set in the Bear's Ears area.

Talking God was the first Hillerman I read. I've read two of his daughter's novels, but their titles escape me.

[Front-Ranger]

Was there a full-page ad in your issues about microdosing with psylosibin?

[Front-Ranger]

So, I'm watching the movie Nyad, and there's a scene where her friend scoops up a pile of magazines from the kitchen counter and says, "New Yorkers? Look at this. From 2006." 

[Jeff Wrangler]

So, I'm watching the movie Nyad, and there's a scene where her friend scoops up a pile of magazines from the kitchen counter and says, "New Yorkers? Look at this. From 2006." 

  

The pile on my dining room table will soon be like that. I've never been so far behind before. 

[serious crayons]

A Facebook friend said he has vowed during his staycation to go through his pile dating back to 2021.

[Front-Ranger]

I've managed to whittle down my pile by getting rid of any from the Trump era. A few are tucked away in a bedside table. The rest go in the little free libraries that are in the neighborhood.