Who knows?! Because they bought into his populist lies? Plus, like so many states it’s all about city vs. rural. West Michigan is the home of the DeVos family and their Amway money. Lots of militia. racist, anti-Semitic people out there. I’m not sure he can pull it off again here. He’s not done anything and has belittled the governor too much- who, even if they don’t like her, is still a Michigander. Who knows? I’ve given up on what is going to happen in this country. I just think it’s going to get worse long before it gets better.

Grrrr. The state sounds crazy! Firearms in the Capitol? that’s encouraging violence. Hope you can someday return to the progressive Northwest … visiting Portland last March … sort of blew me away … I liked it. Cool place. This WH admin is killing us. Why did Mich vote him in in the first place?!? blech.

Rodham is definitely a pick, but I already wrote about it as one of the Spring books I wanted to read so I wanted to cover different books.

Don’t get me started. Those macho militia fools without masks screaming in the face of police officers? If they’d been black they would have been shot dead before they got to the steps. As for being inside, it’s legal to take firearms inside the Michigan capitol. Yup. I love our governor, but I don’t like the state much. Someone killed a store security guard for telling them to put a mask on or leave the store. I can’t wrap my head around that kind of insanity. Of course, it’s all encouraged by the White House.

I’m struggling with Stray. She is a deeply unhappy, negative person. I like her writing but her life is dreadful. I’m not sure I’m in the right headspace to finish it.

I have never read Adam Bede. I don’t know if I could read classics right now. Maybe because they are so very different ti would feel like a relief, but the slower language and movement…I don’t know if I could stay focused.

I’m halfway through Lovegood and enjoying it, although it is slower than I expected. It’s a quiet study of a long time friendship. I like her writing, too.

I am SO grateful to any of the people working right now. My bookstore has a curbside delivery where you call in in the morning and they put the book out for you. No contact at all, but I still stand outside the window and wave in- even if no one’s there.

Well, I already put down The Motion- felt like it was going to be more depressing than I can handle right now. On the other hand I’m enjoying Lovegood even though it is really a character study with very little plot. Somehow it’s soothing…

This month I am trying to finish my Classics Club pick, Adam Bede. I’m eight chapters in, only 47 more to go! I can’t only read that, of course, so I’m also reading Shirley Jackson’s memoir Living With Savages. It’s my bedtime book since I have a paper copy.