A day or so to go

I have enjoyed the Olympics, as I always do, but I am also looking forward to all the time I will now have when I have not been taken up with other peoples' sporting achievements, and some amazing achievements they have been. Some wonderful moments. I've watched bits of the golf, the swimming, the gymnastics, rowing and kayaking and canoeing, the athletics, of course, and so much more. There is still cycling and the women's marathon to go.

But it will be over, and normal viewing shall return. Its like being on holiday, when its topsy turvy, and then you come back home to normal.

Currently reading: The Women by Kirstin Hannah. 



Boy, oh boy, what a book this is proving to be so far. I'll do a review on GoodReads when its finished but so far, wow. It's about a young nurse heading to the war in Vietnam, and being plunged into the hellhole war is, and that particular war was. That time in American history is so tragic and interesting - I did a history paper on the counterculture and the sixties when I was at university - and I'm at the bit in the story now where Frankie, the nurse, is about to return home to the USA. What will happen to Frankie when she's  home, out of the war, and back home in American as a veteran, facing friends and family over being part of that terrible war?

Suffice it to say, when the Olympics are over, the first recreational thing I shall do is find where I put the book, and finish it!!




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