what to read?

My library is closed and all my book groups are cancelled until further notice, so none of my books have any deadlines attached to them. It's a very odd feeling! So much of my ability to get stuff done depends on directed procrastination. What do I read when I don't know what I am supposed to be reading?

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

Tawanda book group is going to happen over Zoom, if we can manage it. Our host for this month teaches long-distance classes with Zoom, so she says she can introduce it to all of us, after she helps all her colleagues get their classes online!

Knowing how to use Zoom is going to be useful.

So, I know what I have to read: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. The library is closed, but Martha had a copy she was willing to put out on the porch for me.

Martha lives twenty minutes from my house, on a really nice street for walking. There were fewer people than I would expect on a Sunday afternoon with really beautiful weather in early spring. There and back, I counted fourteen people walking dogs, nineteen bicyclists, nine people entering or leaving the grocery store, nine people just walking.

I don't think Martha intended for us to breathe on each other; she said hello through the window, but then she saw Dutch, and had to come out and say hello in person. We agreed that she is the prettiest sweetest softest friendliest dog and I am very lucky to have her.

I am afraid she might have worms though. She is licking herself under her tail quite persistently.