GUS (Gave Up Smoking) is a community support diary for Kossacks in the midst of quitting smoking. Any supportive comments, suggestions or positive distractions are appreciated. If you are quitting or thinking of quitting, please -- join us! You can also click the GUS tag to view all diary posts.
Good evening, GUSsacks!! It's a mellow evening up here in the North Country -- that overcast, end-of-summer stillness peculiar to mid-August, where the air hangs heavy and so does time; time to sit, time to reflect, time to laze with friends on a fieldstone patio while the heat of the day bakes up from beneath your feet and the evening birdsong begins, crescendoing into a glorious cacophonous chorus of nature before falling, fading, and giving way to the dusky majesty of twilight.
Also time to read books -- and who doesn't love reading a book by or about a person who has lived a life of note, either through ambition or accident? Join me below the fold for a few humble suggestions from an unabashed bibliophile....