{"id":12237,"date":"2009-07-09T17:51:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T21:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/07\/09\/12237.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:52:07","slug":"book-report-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2009\/07\/09\/book-report-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Comeback<\/a> is the diplomat-vet one. You know.\n

It seems that YHB hasn’t reread Comeback<\/i> for five years? That seems unlikely. But for a while, I was rereading my Dick Francis books infrequently. I’m not sure why. And I am surprised that I hadn’t reread this one, as it is a favorite. Not my very favorite, which would probably be the Canadian train one, or perhaps the wealthy-commodity-trading father one, or the movie one. Although I’m also fond of the painter one, not the Australian painter one but the bagpipe-playing painter one. And the kidnapping one, that’s pretty good, too.\n

I think of myself as rereading each of those every year or so, but clearly I don’t. I know I don’t reread each<\/i> Dick Francis novel every year, which mean reading more than two a month—doable, but that would eat up pretty much all the light rereading time available. And I would get heartily sick of him after about five or six. But I do read something like four a year, it seems, which is rather a lot, really. And if I read four a year, and Comeback<\/I> is one of my top five, why have I read a bunch of other ones I don’t like as much, and some twice, before getting to this one again?\n

Clearly there is something wrong with my book-choosing algorithm. Not the bit where I seek out books that are new to me, although that is scarcely perfect, but the bit where I am looking for something fun and comfortable, easy to carry and familiar enough that I won’t mind stopping partway through a chapter—the bit, in fact, where I am standing in front of one of the shelves in my bedroom saying to my Best Reader why don’t we have any books<\/a>?<\/i>\n

Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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