Book notes

I watched a Wheezy Waiter video in which he tried a new tactic to increase the amount of reading he was doing.

It was to go to a library and pick 5 fiction books completely at random, without so much as looking at the cover.

It kind of worked, but mainly didn't, in that he did start each reading each book and gave them a fair go, but only really got into one of them enough to keep going.  (I think - in retrospect, I can't recall if he said he actually got to the end of the one that he did consider engaging.)  So he did spend more time reading - but if it was mostly on books he abandoned, it does seem a tad wasted effort.

Anyway, the point of this post is twofold:

*  I think at least 3, maybe 4, of the 5 books were murder mysteries, and part of a series.   As with Wheezy, this would have been a fail for me, as I have never been into murder mystery books.  I don't know why, as I used to watch Columbo and other old "murder of the week"shows as much as the average viewer in the 70's and 80's.  But I've never been interested in that sort of story in book form.   Publishers obviously like publishing them, though.  And presumably it's because the few people left reading books are into them too.  Why, I don't really understand...

* Wheezy also disclosed that he is reading The Count of Monte Cristo on his phone at the moment, and is enjoying it.   This is after I noted recently that there just seem to be lots of people in the limited social media I consume recommending it at the moment, and again, I don't know why.   (OK, I mean, I presume it must be pretty good - but I don't know why so many are talking about it right now.)