The Thin Red Line

Confessing that I have been re-reading Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and just haven’t felt like reading or blogging about other books. Meanwhile I am up to 168th on the hold list so I should get a copy within three weeks. I have been unable to avoid a couple of spoilers that mostly confirmed what I had surmised from perusing a couple of paragraphs at the beginning of the epilogue. And decided to get set up to Continue the story when I finally get the damned book.

Staci and Clint flew home to Boise Wed evening. We fed them lunch and took them to the airport. She is going to have to come back in October for yet Another operation so we will look forward to seeing her again. Never did make it to the museum, but I still have the pass and Ron and I are planning to go Tuesday. And we already miss Staci.

Today’s book caught my eye, but proved to be a dud. A hodge podge of information on a wide range of diverse topics from how to tie a knot, to how to hold a baby, how to change a flat tire to how to order sushi, the things John F. Hunt states that every guy needs to know struck me as arbitrary and less than helpful, as least to me. And the depth and helpfulness of the treatment of the various topics varies greatly. Ordering and eating sushi is covered in great detail (which I already know and don’t much care about) but the section on how to tie knots consisted of a list of 8 different tpyes of knots, a sentence describing each type of knot and an illustration of each knot with no instructions whatsoever for how to tie it. Don’t bother with this one.

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