Wonderful Wordy Wednesday

Less than three weeks from the US election day. If you are eligible voter in the US, please make plans and time to vote and have your vote counted. 

I for one can't wait until the onslaught of ads go away. We have a senate seat up for election along with some state legislative offices up for vote. I record my TV shows, then I can fast forward through the ads. Also means I am reading more to stay off the TV. Well, except for sports, got to watch that stuff live. Wisconsin is one of the swing states so ads, candidate visits etc. never ends.

More fall like weather has arrived. I have the furnace on and with a programmable thermostat it only runs if the house gets cooler than what I feel comfortable at. I don't keep the house that warm, I do put on long sleeves, pants and heavier clothes. 

Working on getting flower beds cut down and hauled off to the compost pile. Two loads done, six to eight loads to go!

Drawn Testimony author is a court room artist and has worked for over 40 years as such. It is a profession that is freelance and she has been hired to cover many of the major trials of the past 40 years. Gives insight into how and why she draws the principals, the limited artistic freedom she has to get vital moments of trials. Book includes some color pictures as well as numerous black and white reproductions.

Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons is a dual biography of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother's of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Both were born in 1854 as US citizens Jennie's life was intertwined with the British aristocracy, Sara was settled into the upper class in the US. Interesting contrast of the two women, their relationships with their spouses, money and children.

The Six in 1978 NASA selected a new batch of astronauts, including six women. Women who were highly educated, also wives and mothers. All would fly in at least one shuttle mission. One, Judith Resnik, would lose her life in the Challenger explosion.

Madly, Deeply are actor Alan Rickman's diaries over the years. I first remember seeing him act in Sense and Sensibility and loved his voice. Other major roles, in Love Actually and as Professor Snape in the Harry Potter movies. This was more of a skim the text looking for items of interest, making of movies. A look at his life, but not a memoir.

Scattershot is a memoir / autobiography of Bernie Taupin. Best known as the lyricist to many of Elton John's songs. Bernie admits in the intro that he does not have a linear mind which for me made it hard to read as I do have a linear mind. Much more than his music and relationship with Elton. 

Happy Reading.