2:47 am

Awake at an unplanned hour.

Couple  thoughts about two books I'm reading through.

My travel text (via Kindle) is a biography on Alexander the Great. I managed to reach chapter 18 this week. It's a slower told story, possibly because of the Greek names, mythological figures, and other aspects of the ancient world. In some cases, I've found myself craving an atlas to have alongside the tale, just to better visualize some of his movements. I don't expect this text to be done quickly since I'm about 35% through the story after only 18 chapters.

Bedside reading comes in the form of an actual book, The Annotated Chronicles by Weiss & Hickman. I'm estimating it's weight at approximately 3 lbs. Having owned the 3 volumes as separate books previously, the annotated omnibus took their place. Differing from some of my other annotated collections, it's not so overstuffed with time period facts such as one of my Sherlock Holmes collections, but has the authors talking in maybe a sentence or two on average about where a certain scene, character, or line of dialogue sprang from. A nice glimpse into how the creative process works, and how random things can crop up as useful storytelling pieces.

Today (Thursday June 14th) will either being a Snarky day or Pirate Brad day, once my eyes are ready to focus on a page or at the glowing white page on my monitor. As I wrote this, I've been listening to the Clash's London Calling album.


Later.