Been Busy

Two of my best friends are forever explaining their dearth of progress in reading by being swamped as it were by the demands of modern life. All smirks aside, I have not posted of r a week but i have read a great deal. I finished three books - Black Mass by John Gray, Butterfly Stories by William T. Vollmann and The Raphael Affair by Iain Pears. A stilted sex scene, heavy on existential nausea necessitated a pause in the de Beauvoir and I have, instead, began plowing through Redemption Falls by Joseph O'Connor, another book my wife bought me for xmas.