Mailbox Monday

Well, I did no reading yesterday. What's up with that? I guess I hung out with Steve a lot of the day. We don't get to do that too often so that was nice. We watched the movie Taking Chance last night. It is a very appropriate movie for the Memorial Day weekend. It stars Kevin Bacon as a data-cruncher military man in 2004 who volunteers to be an escort of a soldier killed in Iraq. It is based on a true story. Steve and I both teared up many times. The movie got the respect of the military right but the airport in Montana was Bozeman instead of Billings like it should have been and what they said it was. It was actually Belgrade just outside Bozemen and has mountains so it must have been "prettier".

I have to bring up a current event controversy here for a minute. The oil spill in the Gulf. They can't do anything about it now until August? The federal government is saying they don't know how to fix it?!? They've got the best minds and the best access to other best minds and they're saying they don't know what to do about it? That is BS. Can you say Obama's Waterloo? Holy cow how can they just let it go on and destroy so much? Unbelievable.

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On to Mailbox Monday: Mailbox Monday gathers together for readers the books that came into the house last week. (feel free to share yours) Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.

THE NOBEL OUTLAW by Bernard Knight via paperbackswap.com. I'm collecting the books that are upcoming for me in this series with features Sir John de Wolfe, the crowner (coroner), in 12th century Devon, England. "When Matthew Morcok, a former master saddler, is found mummified above a renovated school, the authorities call on Sir John de Wolfe and coroner's clerk Thomas de Peyne to stop what is fast becoming a campaign of terror. Later victims include a master glazier, who's strangled, and a candle maker impaled through the eye. John's work is complicated by the conflict between his shady brother-in-law, Richard de Revelle, and Nick o' the Moor, an outlaw who returned from the Crusades to find his estates expropriated by de Revelle and de Revelle's cronies. John makes an arduous wintertime journey into Dartmoor to meet Nick, who's actually a knight, Nicholas de Arundell. Nick's plight so moves John that he takes the outlaw's case to England's Chief Justiciar for resolution."

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It's supposed to hit the 70s today. Again, the same plans as yesterday. I'll be enjoying the extra day off because work will be ugly this week. I think maybe we'll be getting something from out for dinner.

Have a fun day....

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster