Discipline in These titles mean nothing.

I’m reading some Updike stories. I love short stories. I like the way they tell so much - it’s as if you get the whole life story in short form - like a good sandwich. I regret letting that book of Salter stories go. And the book of Donald Hall stories. I tried to lend the Salter stories to someone in the book club - I reread it before I took it to the meeting. No one was interested but I think the guy who sells books to the Amish took it. I suppose I could ask the Amish about it but I think his group of Amish is not the same as ours. The Hall book is the one I mailed to Hawaii and then tried to get back and never heard from the woman I mailed it to.

Oh such sad stories.

This Updike is called Trust Me and it’s a blue cloth covered hardback with stories from his middle life. There is a lot about his wives told in various slipcovers. I love Updike. I think he’s my overall, lifetime favorite writer. I wish I knew where I got the book. It’s in good shape. I don’t buy a lot of hardcovers and almost never new ones. This came from a used book store, I’m almost sure. There is no evidence it was ever a library book. The dustcover is gone.

One of my life regrets is not noting inside books where and when I got them, and perhaps what I paid for them too. I dislike writing in books, marginalia, I think it’s called, but after it’s done I like to see it.

I’m not a disciplined person. Too bad.

I’ve put a small pen mark by the stories in the table of contents as I read them.
‘Trust Me’
‘’Made in Heaven’
‘More Stately Mansions’
‘Unstuck’

Book came out in 1987.