Well I am getting there with the new hip. Walking so much easier. I am doing circuits of our communal gardens using crutches but indoors I am managing with just one or none at all which is hugely encouraging. I am getting rather bored with it all now and just want to get on with things but I know I have to be patient. Everyone keeps saying this to me and while I know they are right, it does not help.
And reading. Well, I seem to be totally unable to settle down and read anything for any length of time. A brain fog seems to descend. Nearly a month now since the anesthetic so I was hoping by now this mental lethargy would have dissipated but I fear not,
I am reading anything that catches my fancy at the moment. I have no plan and I am reading a few chapters of one and then a few chapters of another and it is all a bit annoying. A lot of re-reading as well so I do not have to stretch my mind too much.
Michael Connelly is one of my favourite US authors. He is the creator of Harry Bosch, a detetive with the LAPD and they are punchy, well plotted and well written and I am working my way through them. He has other characters, one of which is Micky Haller, a defence lawyer, who is Harry's half brother and I really enjoy these with the court room scenes etc. A film was made of The Lincoln Lawyer with Matthew McConaughey which is slick and so well done and then recently Netflix have a new series which I have watched. The adaptations work well because unlike some they actually stick to the stories. OK there is the odd difference here and there but the core element remains the same. I note there is a new Haller coming out in November and I have already pre-ordered it.
This was not the case with a series I watched, again on Netflix, Night Agent. An agent spends his nights sitting by a telephone which is only used in dire case of emergency. One night it rings and off we go with a conspiracy plot, cover up etc. In other words, the usual. I watched one episode and realised who the mole was in five minutes. I decided to read the book by Matthew Quirk and then wished I had not bothered as the book bears no relation whatsoever to the series, though the mole is the same. I tried another by this author but it was poor stuff and I abandoned it.
So I have a heap of books waiting to be read and I simply cannot be bothered at the moment so book reviews will be somewhat lacking until I am back up to speed.
I was looking at my Agatha Christie shelf and have decided to tackle some of them again. I know the identity of every murderer in every one but at the moment the appeal of Poirot and Miss Marple is very strong.
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