You may have already seen ‘The Queen’s Gambit’, one of Netflix’s most watched series, which first appeared six years ago. I knew of it, but I don’t even know how to play chess and never watched until last week when BookBud offered the novel by Walter Tevis on which the series is based. Being daring I ventured $1.99 and bought it. I found the novel to be a very great pleasure. I read it in two afternoons and then bought two more Tevis novels, THE COLOR OF MONEY and the MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, both of which were made into movies, as was his THE HUSTLER, and Carol and I started watching the Netflix series which wisely follows the book closely.
One does not have to know chess to enjoy the story of a girl orphaned young, raised partly in an orphanage, adopted by a mismatched couple, given to addictions, who happens to have a preternatural gift for chess and becomes one of the best, and perhaps the very best, player in the world.
Carol and I will watch the seventh and final episode of the series tonight.
I highly recommend both novel and series.
I just checked and the Kindle edition of the novel is still available at Amazon for $1.99.
I am sitting in front of our oversized bedroom window. From time to time I glance up and these days when I do I often see a sailboat powering south on Skull Creek. Snowbird season. It has been good powering weather. Sunny, warm, with very little wind. But that is way too much powering for me.
In the book of poems by Edward Arlington Robinson I came across a long and very good one titled ‘Lancelot’. I have learned that this is only the ending of a book length poem of that name which I have found online and will eventually read. This last section is sometimes known as ‘The Final Parting’ as you will understand if you read it. I believe it is worth your time.
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