Day One Hundred and Forty-Eight
The Crossing Page: 335
This book is starting to feel a bit long. I’m not sure how much is left of it but I’m ready for it to be done. Of course even when I finish it I still have the third volume of the trilogy to read. I’m wondering what themes will emerge as I finish. Both All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing have involved a high level of brutality. Men shooting men, animals being abused, possible rape, mutilation etc… All of these things have been treated fairly matter-of-factly which only magnifies the horror. I don’t have much stomach for such things. I’ve never understood why people spend time reading stories or novels about things like the Holocaust. Not for me.
I took some photos of my books. Some of the shots aren’t great but I was trying to get the entire shelf in them.
Don’t be jealous Amy, that first picture shows my 1902 set of Norroaena Society medieval Literature. The little blue set behind them continues across the cedar chest. The second shot shows all my Heritage Press titles, my Folio Society titles, my leather bound poetry books and my OED. The last shot is of all my Everyman’s Library books…I’m less than halfway through and I’m running out of room…