As happens, life has overtaken my reading. Time to get back to it.
Author: Jeff Gapp
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Meet Edith
Edith is/was a feral cat born in May of 2025. She was hanging around after her mom and the other feral cats we had hanging around left (they are still around just not around our house). It was pretty cold outside during January and we decided to coax her inside the house. She and our other cats get along fabulously.
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2026 – Multiple Books Completed
Been awhile since I did an update. I’ve been traveling which is always a good time to get some reading done. Let’s see what we got:
- Butcher’s Crossing, Author: John Williams – 01/24/2026
- The Unforgiven, Author: Alan LeMay – 01/25/2026
- A Blaze of Glory, Author: Jeff Shaara – 01/25/2026
- Everything is Tuberculosis, Author: John Green – 01/25/2026
- As the Crow Flies, Author: Craig Johnson – 01/28/2026
- A Serpent’s Tooth, Author: Craig Johnson – 02/02/2026
- Any Other Name, Author: Craig Johnson – 2/15/2026
- Life and Times of America’s Banana King, Author: Rich Cohen – 02/20/2026
All of the above books were pretty good. Number 1 and 2 are Westerns and rest vary on subject matter.
Everything is Tuberculosis was the book that I learned a lot from. I didn’t know that tuberculosis was so prevalent.
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Meet Koi
We’ve had Koi since September 2024 (Sept. 4th to be exact). The only way I can describe her is joyful.
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Vacation time…
I’m heading off on a week’s vacation and looking forward to it. Hoping to be able to get a jump on this year’s book list. I’ve got quite a few candidates which I’ll list out later.
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2026 – Book Completed – Clown Town
This is the ninth book in the ‘Slow Horses’ series. I enjoyed it but it is not as good as the others in the series.
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2026 – Book Completed – Hell is Empty
Another Craig Johnson book. Love his style of writing and I enjoyed the story.
Note that the cover is wrong. Netflix dropped the show and Paramount picked it up.
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2026 – Can I read 52 books in 52 weeks?
In 2025 I read 32 books… so I missed my goal of 52 by quite a bit.
For 2026 my goal is to, again, read 52 books in the calendar year. Some of these are fast reads others…not so much.
Also; the links below are to Amazon but they are not affiliate links so you can’t make me rich this way.
- Hell is Empty, Author: Craig Johnson – 01/03/2026
- Clown Town, Author: Mick Herron – 01/12/2026
- Abundance, Author: Ezra Klein, Derik Thompson – 01/13/2026
- Brothers, Author: Alex Van Halen – Reading
- Butcher’s Crossing, Author: John Williams – 01/24/2026
- The Unforgiven, Author: Alan LeMay – 01/25/2026
- A Blaze of Glory, Author: Jeff Shaara – 01/25/2026
- Everything is Tuberculosis, Author: John Green – 01/25/2026
- As the Crow Flies, Author: Craig Johnson – 01/28/2026
- A Serpent’s Tooth, Author: Craig Johnson – 02/02/2026
- Any Other Name, Author: Craig Johnson – 2/15/2026
- The Fish that Ate the Whale: Life and Times of America’s Banana King, Author Rich Cohn – 02/20/2026
- The Greatest Sentence Every Written, Author: Walter Isaacson – 04/24/2026
- The Dog Stars, Author: Peter Heller – 04/26/2026
- Dry Bones, Author: Craig Johnson – Late May 2026
- An Obvious Fact, Author: Craig Johnson – Late May 2026
- The Western Star, Author: Craig Johnson – Late May 2026
- The Last Campaign, Author: Andrew Ross Sorkin – Late May 2026
- On Great Fields – The life and unlikely heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Author: Ronald C. White – Late May 2026
- Mobilize, Author: Shyam Sankar – Late May 2026
- Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63, Author: Taylor Branch – Mid-July 2026
- A Chain of Thunder: A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg, Author: Jeff Shaara – Late July 2026
- Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916, Author: Michale Capuzzo – Early August 2026
- Cannae: Hannibal’s Greatest Victory, Author: Adrian Goldsworthy – Middle of August, 2026
- On the Shortness of Life, Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca – Late August, 2026
- The Name of the Wind, Author: Patrick Rothfus – Reading
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Book Completed: Cassino ’44: The Brutal Battle for Rome
The Italian campaign was just absolutely brutal. This book outlines this up until the capture of Rome. The fight for Cassino was just two forces bashing their heads together with the resulting casualties. Terrible.
