Normally, I watch videos or movies, but, lately, I've been enjoying novels.
I just finished Agatha Christie's novel Dumb Witness. It's probably my favorite Hercule Poirot book. By the way, the "dumb witness" is a terrier named Bob.
I read three Cat Who books by Lilian Jackson Braun, and I've finished Dr. No by Ian Fleming. It was made into the first Sean Connery/James Bond film.
Since then, I've started another Cat Who book, The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare.
I re-read the novel Foundation by Isaac Asimov and came by the word asperity. It's a noun that means harshness of tone or manner or harsh qualities or conditions.
I finished the Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle. It's strange how Doyle wrote it. The first section was in London; the second opened in Utah and ended in London. It was disconcerting.
I finished Not Quite Dead Enough, a Nero Wolfe book by Rex Stout, and I read the Arthur C. Clarke sci-fi novel The Hammer of God.
I re-read 10 lb. Penalty, a horse-racing/politics novel written by Dick Francis. It's been maybe 20 years since I read it the first time. It was published in 1998.
I listened to the audiobook of The Quick Red Fox, a Travis McGee novel written by John D. MacDonald. Darren McGavin is the narrator.
My most recent read was The Cat Who Blew the Whistle, a mystery novel by Lilian Jackson Braun. I'd read all of Braun's Cat Who novels before, but I didn't remember the exact details of this one.
I also re-read The Cat Who Said Cheese.
I recently read The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett as an ebook, and then I listened to The Murder on the Links, an Agatha Christie-style book written by Kate McAll. Hercule Poirot was the star.
I finished The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie's first published novel), and I've listened to a Nero Wolfe audiobook of The Black Mountain by Rex Stout. I read the latter many years ago; now I'm listening to it.
I've finished Murder at the Snowbound Inn, a Poirot novella on audiobook. The narrator did a great job.
Now I'm reading an ebook of Isaac Asimov's Caves of Steel, the first of the three-part robot series. I read that in 1985.
In the re-read of Caves of Steel, I found it amusing that Asimov thought the earth's population 1,000 years in the future would be an unbelievable eight billion. We passed that about 33 years after his death in 1992.
My next audiobook was Murder in Mesopotamia, another Poirot book. I'd never read it before, but I'd seen the David Suchet TV episode.
I read The Naked Sun, the sequel to Caves of Steel. Lije Bailey's going offworld to Solaria. I'm waiting to read the third robot book, Robots of Dawn.
I started the ebook Bright Orange for the Shroud, a Travis McGee mystery by John D. MacDonald. My next MacDonald book was The Turquoise Lament.
I found another Travis McGee book lying near my bed, A Tan and Sandy Silence. I'll get tired of McGee, but I'll read some more before I do.
The Robots of Dawn just came over from Libby, so I read it next. It's the third in Isaac Asimov's three-part robot series featuring Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw.
I love mysteries. And science fiction.
Dr. No 007 James Bond [Full Audiobook]
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