Yesterday was a long day as
I confronted my personal demons – long meetings. I’ve always hated long
meetings and suffered through several yesterday. In one, first thing in the morning, we had to
sit and around and listen to an appointed official who knows absolutely nothing
about the business offer suggestions so nonsensical that it strained credulity. He was finally told to shut up by one of our
more frequent and equally clueless critics, which spoke volumes about how far
afield this idiot was. I spent the
entire afternoon sitting in the initial bargaining session with the union
leaders on a new contract. The fact that
this session was the more enjoyable than the morning one was indicative. I did finish reading Running with the
Demon, by Terry Brooks. I hadn’t
read anything by Brooks in decades. When
I was young I latched on to his Sword of Shanarra series after reading The
Lord of the Rings. It was a pale
copy of the classic but I still enjoyed it.
After I finished my last book my Kindle list was empty so I found one of
his which turned out to be the middle book of a series. After deciding I liked the book I went back
to Amazon and now own the five books in the series and started reading the
first, Running with the Demon. It
took me a while to get into because Brooks always feels he has to lower all
expectations and make all his characters miserable before their final
battle. While I was at Amazon I also
noticed a short by Nelson Demille, a favorite but achingly slow writer. It was called The Book Case and
featured my favorite character from Demille’s books – John Corey. He’s a wise ass New York
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