I've started All The King's Men, which reads like poetry. The language is rhythmic and richly evocative. He reminds me a lot of another KY author, Jesse Stuart. I was reading ATKM in a coffee shop with my kids the other day and I read something in it - I forget what it was exactly - that caused me to laugh uncontrollably for several minutes. I had tears in my eyes and was coughing. My kids were giving me evil stares, though, and when we left asserted they were never going ANYWHERE with me again, as they were embarrassed to admit even my acquaintance, let alone my kinship with them.

I also started The Emperor's Codes, which is an account of WWII codebreaking.
Interesting detail: I'd always thought the Brits broke the German codes and the Americans broke the Japanese codes. Turns out the Americans broke a few of the Japanese codes, BUT most were also broke by the Brits.

Also, I retreived my copy of volume I of Feyman's Lectures on Physics and plan to spend a fair chunk of the summer on it.

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