so here we are....

 Friday afternoon---radiation finished for the week---all dressed up and definitely no where to go. A calm "deadness" has overtaken me---that is what happens when the only real "task" one has is paying some medical bills. And you know how hard I will try to avoid that. Yes, the city is opening up---no doubt about that---but still, no free spaces where one can just sit and uainread. Still, have to get through the afternoon until I can "entertain" myself by following some basketball bets tonight. Right now, I would give anything to be at a track---like Aqueduct---it would be worth it to risk some money---even though the money is tight--just for a little energy in a different place.

Actually I am pretty stimulated by what I am reading. First, . The Two Noble Kinsmen, the play partially written by Shakespeare  which has some interesting writing in it. There is definitely some writing in it that anyone who has a solid acqaintance with Shakespeare could be pretty sure he did not write. But some other scenes or dialogue look possible. It is a long unweildy play---at least in the version that I am reading---but it does hold  . I am about two thirds of the way through it---will probably try to finish it during the weekend.

Next is The Watchers, a non fiction book about Queen Elizabeth's (Shakespeare's Queen Elizabeth) spies and courtiers, who helped her control a nation always threatened by rebellion. The rebels  would be those citizens who followed the Catholic religion--when Elizabeth ascended the throne, she made Protestantism, following in the vision of her father Henry VIII, who invented the church of England, the definite religion of the country. But most of Europe was Catholic--the previous ruler, Mary, had brought Catholicism back from its exile, but under Elizabeth, any citizen of England who was found to be practicing Catholicism could be tried for treason or exectuted. Much hiding and deception, which Elizabeth countered with a strong network of spies. But I am just beginning the book---just getting into it--so I am not familiar with many events. I would like to link the religious conflict to some of Shakespeare's writing and vision---at least half of his plays were written during the tale end of Elizabeth's reign---but I have not found any facts on it now---but the book is just starting,  As I get further into it, maybe I can link the events to his writing.

Finaly The Turner House, by Angela Flornoy, the novel about four genreations of a black family. I have just read the begiinnin---seems very interesting and challenging, but I think I should try to finish The Watchers first. I want to be able to concentrate completely on the novel, and its many characters when I read it.

Yet at this moment, I don't feel motivated to read any of it. Have to get out--too nice a day--not sure how much stamina I have. The treatments seem to have cut down on my stamina. Drinking too much coffee--will figure out what happens as it goes along. Will report soon.