The last book I read was a Fredric Brown novel, WE ALL KILLED GRANDMA. I realized about halfway through, I had already read it several years ago, but I remembered little about it, so I finished it. My god, has it come to this...I'm going to have to keep notebooks of what I've read and what I haven't anymore? Before that ,I read a Nichols Bracewell mystery by John Marston. Bracewell is a bookholder with an Elizabethan theatre company that seems to get beset by more mysteries and murders than any in London and redoubtable Nicholas must figure them out...they are fun palate-cleansers between more serious fare.
I also read an interesting play by Helen Edmundson called THE CLEARING about Cromwell's attempt to solve the "Irish problem" by simply eradicting them from the face of the earth. It was Cromwell's English soldiers that actually started the practice of scalping (not American Indians) when a bounty was put on the heads of Irish men, women, and children. Instead of the heads as proof, they just started bringing in the scalps. It was the English who introduced the practice to the American Indians.
I'm going to re-read the SCARLET LETTER because I've had an offer of being commissioned to write it as a play. It looks as daunting, forbidding, and as inervating as it did in ninth grade.
BK, you made me nostalgic and jealous talking about the Courts show. I remember how we used to prowl the place together. Did you ask Bert I. about our Frankenstein script?
