Finished rereading They Came to Baghdad. Retrieved Death Comes as the End to reread next.

Authors and their works are like food to me. I eat only my favorites, what I've tasted and eaten before and what I still like eating, no matter how simple.

I am actually perplexed by people who snatch at new books as fast as they come, and I wonder whether they actually read those books--because I don't see any change manifested in their ways of thinking, in their lifestyles, in their conversation, and in their own writing.