Do you ever feel like too little butter
scraped over too much bread?

Tue Nov 7 2023

Blazing Reader,

In The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo Baggins laments, "I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”

Avoiding the "Bilbo blues" was what attracted me so much to the book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown.

Last week, I posted a written review of the book (that was quite popular among my apparently stretched thin subscribers.)

Today, I've posted a video review (with a funny photo of Thomas Edison snoozing). You can watch, like and share it on YouTube. It's essential you do.

—John C. A. Manley



John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona: A Dystopian Love Story, the forthcoming All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of speculative fiction. Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber at: https://blazingpinecone.com/subscribe/