wandering hillbilly

readin of buddy don:
whut me n emily wuz readin in 1980

a typicull day durin the time me n emily spent in west germany wood include a lot of readin. in fack, jes after brakefuss, we wood wait fer the mail to cum, witch that give us a cuple of hours to read, n lack as not, we wood lack whut we wuz readin so much that we mite never git out the door ceptn to go buy vittles at that buy palace. yer gonna note rite away how twuz mostly novels we wuz readin, not flossofy or histry. we read severul of them out loud to each other, witch tiz a practiss i recommend fer innybidy that luvs grate books n luvs to share em with thar significunt other. heres a list, witch these is the ones i read n i reckon emily read most of em n a lot more besides on a counta she was the fastest reader i ever met:

• The Moving Target by Ross MacDonald
  
• The Drowning Pool by Ross MacDonald
  
• The Way Some People Die by Ross MacDonald
  
• Find a Victim by Ross MacDonald
  
• The Barbarous Coast by Ross MacDonald
  
• The Galton Case by Ross MacDonald
  
• The Chill by Ross MacDonald
  
• The Far Side of the Dollar by Ross MacDonald
  
• The Goodbye Look by Ross MacDonald
  
• The Underground Man by Ross MacDonald
  
• The Blue Hammer by Ross MacDonald
  
• The Murder of Roger Ackeroyd by Agatha Christie
  
• The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
  
• The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
  
• Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
  
• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
  
• The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie
  
• Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
  
• Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie
  
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
  
• One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie
  
• The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
  
• The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
  
• They Do It with Mirrors by Agatha Christie
  
• A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
  
• Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie
  
• Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
  
• The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie
  
• The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie
  
• Third Girl by Agatha Christie
  
• By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie
  
• Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie
  
• Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett
  
• Humphrey Clinker by Tobias Smollett
  
• The World According to Garp by John Irving
  
• Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
  
• The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
  
• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Stern
  
• The History of Tom Jones, Foundling by Henry Fielding
  
• Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
  
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  
• Das Glasperlenspiel by Hermann Hesse
  
• Phaedrus by Plato
  
• Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
  
• Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
  
• Typhoon by Joseph Conrad
  
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  
• Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
  
• A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain