So I just finished The Financial Lives of the Poets by Walter Jess. This makes the third in a series of men in mid-life crisis books I have recently completed The other two being Straight Man by Richard Russo and The Finkler Question by Richard Russo. No special reason for this as any mid-life crisis I may have had is past and I have settled into contented mediocrity. Primarily the luck of the draw on recent local library book club selections. Of the three I enjoyed The Financial Lives of the Poets best, it was hilarious.

Now I have started on something more serious, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.