In our regular berth, we can usually pick up the wireless from a nearby cafe. As the tide goes out, the connection becomes increasingly spotty and it becomes necessary to raise the antenna to maintain a stable connection:
I haven’t posted about a book for a while, because I wanted to address this series in a single entry. I’ve recently made it through Stephen King’s magnum opus, the Dark Tower series.
The series starts off well-enough: Roland’s character is an interesting combination of western gunslinger and Arthurian knight. King does a good job of creating a world that is unlike our own but clearly linked to it in some fundamental way: Why is “Hey Jude” being played everywhere? Why do people invoke the name of the “Jesus-man” in such a different world? Is Roland’s world running parallel to or after ours? (It’s made clear later, but I don’t want to spoil things.)
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