On the Menu

   Well, I started a 13-week class with Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University yesterday, and like all classes worth your time, there is homework which involves reading, among other things.  Anything life changing is worth the effort, so I am bumping some fiction reading to make room for Ramsey.  I began Financial Peace Revisited during my morning breakfast/coffee, and with short chapters, relate-able information and large font, early-morning homework shouldn't be a problem, making sure I am still allowed my late-night forays into the world of Hugo Cabret.  Cabret has such visually stunning artwork, I almost wish the entire story was in pictures!   

   During the day, I have completed Colfer's Wish List, which was a usual Colfer delight.  Less dark than the Artemis Fowl series, yet darker than Half Moon Investigations, it has the usual Colfer charm and humor, with the occasional, veiled bodily-function humor.  The audiobook is on par with the first 6 Fowl audiobooks, with fair characterization in voice, and brilliant Irish charm.  Having completed this now, I resume the fictionalized-yet-based-on-fact Eaters of the Dead (The 13th Warrior) by Michael Crichton.  Obviously, I have more difficulty staying on track with non-fiction (or semi-non-fiction), but it is quite interesting, and eye-opening about ancient Muslim and Viking ways of life.