TWOsday ~ Two books I want to read

I learned about the first book below in a roundabout way.  A friend told me I'd like the story of "The Torys, or the Tiger King," which I found on YouTube.  I did.  I do like it!  So I'm sharing it with you.  It turns out the four people narrating the story (Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, and Alan Alda) are all reading from Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown, a book just published three weeks ago.  It also turns out there was another book a year earlier.  Listen to the Tory story on YouTube by clicking on the blue link.

Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown ~ by John Lithgow, 2020

Lithgow writes and draws with wit and fury as he takes readers through another year of the shocking events involving Trump's administration.  With all-new poems and never-before-seen line drawings, Lithgow will once again make readers laugh and pause to remember some of the most defining moments in recent history — skewering the reign of King Dumpty one stanza at a time.

Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse ~ by John Lithgow, 2019

This satirical poetry collection from award-winning actor and bestselling author John Lithgow chronicles the last few raucous years in American politics, Lithgow takes readers verse by verse through the history of Donald Trump's presidency.  The poems collected in Dumpty draw inspiration from A. A. Milne, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Mother Goose, and others.

Word of the Day

sple·net·ic / spləˈnedik / adjective = bad-tempered; spiteful.  Example:  "Dumpty had a splenetic outburst."