Tuesday

I finished PROPHECY by SJ Parris. I was able to overlook most of the time the first person tense. I enjoyed it a very much. Next up is a library book, ONE WAS A SOLDIER by Julia Spencer Fleming. This is 7th of 7 in series featuring Clare Fergusson, a newly-ordained Episcopal priest, and Russ Van Alystyne, Chief of Police, in Millers Kill, New York. Here is a description:

On a warm September evening in the Millers Kill community center, five veterans sit down in rickety chairs to try to make sense of their experiences in Iraq. What they will find is murder, conspiracy, and the unbreakable ties that bind them to one another and their small Adirondack town.The Rev. Clare Fergusson wants to forget the things she saw as a combat helicopter pilot and concentrate on her relationship with Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne. MP Eric McCrea needs to control the explosive anger threatening his job as a police officer. Will Ellis, high school track star, faces the reality of life as a double amputee. Orthopedist Trip Stillman is denying the extent of his traumatic brain injury. And bookkeeper Tally McNabb wrestles with guilt over the in-country affair that may derail her marriage. But coming home is harder than it looks. One vet will struggle with drugs and alcohol. One will lose his family and friends. One will die. Since their first meeting, Russ and Clare’s bond has been tried, torn, and forged by adversity. But when he rules the veteran’s death a suicide, she violently rejects his verdict, drawing the surviving vets into an unorthodox investigation that threatens jobs, relationships, and her own future with Russ. As the days cool and the nights grow longer, they will uncover a trail of deceit that runs from their tiny town to the upper ranks of the U.S. Army, and from the waters of the Millers Kill to the unforgiving streets of Baghdad.

It was published in April 2011 and 336 pages.

I went in today to complete paperwork and do drug test/physical for the new job with St Vincent Hospital. I was gone from 7:30 until about 10. When I got home the boys had somehow pushed the gate to the backyard open -- a gate that is secured in three different ways. They were just in the side yard thank goodness. Steve is reinforcing it tonight when he gets home. Grrr. Otherwise they're doing well. It's been raining like the dickens so we haven't been able to play that much. That will change soon hopefully.

Tomorrow I'll be back to work for the full day. I hope they behave. I may have to come home at noon to check on them.

Have a good evening....

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster