Lee Weick

So that's where I enjoy kind of that mood reading or that bouncing off of if I'm reading something very serious or a little more dry, then to have something like Emma M. Lyon to dip into is fun.

I appreciate the unselected journals of M. M. Lyon because they are delightful, have some humor, they're lighter, but they're not

That fluff.

I think there's some good character development.

There's some topics that we all deal with that Emma walks through.

But the best part about it is it puts me in a place I want to be.

And that is Victorian England.

Or any England.

Yes.

Initially, okay, because the first couple are fairly short, but they get longer as you go along.

So the tone of them work well for that purpose.

But the length of the later ones, again, has me

I am swept into Emma M. Lyon for too long and neglect my lonesome dove that I want to read.

Yes.

Well, absolutely under 300 pages, but it would be okay if they were 250-ish, you know, just something that I can read in a day or two.

In order to have the variety and little palate cleansers in between, that sort of thing, I don't want them to be much longer than that.

Yes.

Sure.

There is one thing that I would like you to know because I've said that I can handle the pain, the frustration, the hard things of life as long as there's progress and hope.

But I have stumbled on a couple of kinds of things that I don't want and I can't.