writing again

amazingly after months of doldrums inspired to write again suddenly out of the blue two new poems posted online comments from peer reviews include

one called a pictorial feast and beautiful write, the other exalted (literally that is what the reviewer called it) as intriguing with wry poignancy have started on my second poetry ebook it only needs a title

library again first this year

read Gavin menzies (1421. 1434) the lost empire of atlantic menzies a former naval officer having failed to find any credible evidence of his ming chinese colonialising america has again found other proto explorers nand the theory that the minoans discovered america in the long time ago BC period basing his information on visits to museums and libraries during holidays abroad and that stand by of the alternative archaelogist casual web search

he as with all such writers puts all the proto theory on the still relatively unknown minoans who of course despite menzies seeking out evidence in places called minoa did not actually call themselves minoans ( more likely kekassai but that theory is all my own )ranging from the long outdatedidea of phoenicians in america to neolithic star gazers and the gates of stonehenge ( the great minoan longitude dial) nothing really added to this chestnut

conn iggulden empire of silver book 4 of his genghis khan series i have read a lot of iggulden his emperor series etc hoping like the four books of emperor series that book 4 would be the last of this series

set post genghis in the time of the sickly khan ogadei this has the mongol conquest of europe as its backdrop readable action packed and skilful enough to stand alone

tao of travel a great collection of digest pieces from travel books and memoirs all the best bits from john de mandeville to ran fiennes in addition to two fisted climbing of everest via the north ploe chapters on staying home and imaginary journeys and a breakdown of the sometimes days and weeks that the travelling writer and critical observer of foreigners spent in the country before writing their book well chosen well written a prize

graham greene the lawless roads as i found out from the above tao of travel greene spent six weeks in a mexico he didn't like researching the basis for the novel power and the glory

used to read a lot of graham greene and somerset maugham in my youth