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I can't mow this weekend; the mower won't start. I'm hoping it's just the spark plug and Steve can replace it this week. But I have to wait on him to do it. Bah.

Last night we watched on DVD Oblivion, starring Tom Cruise. This is a very interesting SFF movie that was beautifully filmed. I was leery at first about it but I actually enjoyed it quite a bit and recommend it if you like SFF. We also watched the season 3 premiere of Strike Back, a series on Cinemax. The series follows the actions of Section 20, a secretive branch of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), who operate several high risk, priority missions throughout the globe. Season 1 (US) was good - each story lasted for two episodes for a total of ten episodes; season two was laughable because they had the storyline go thru the entire season and to, you know, not end it successfully in the first episode and to keep the story going for all ten episodes they kept failing in their objectives, effectively undermining their competence for the audience (at least this audience) in terms of storyline. But we're giving it another shot.

I'm about to start  A COLD TREACHERY by Charles Todd. This is 7th of 15 in series featuring Ian Rutledge, a shell-shocked World War I veteran returning to his job at Scotland Yard, in London. Here is a description:

Called out by Scotland Yard into the teeth of a violent blizzard, Inspector Ian Rutledge finds himself confronted with one of the most savage murders he has ever encountered. Rutledge might have expected such unspeakable carnage on the World War I battlefields, where he’d lost much of his soul–and his sanity–but not in an otherwise peaceful farm kitchen in remote Urskdale. Someone has murdered the Elcott family at their table without the least sign of struggle. Was the killer someone the young family knew and trusted? When the victims are tallied the local police are in for another shock: One of the Elcotts’ children, a boy named Josh, is missing. Now the Inspector must race to uncover a murderer and to save a child before he’s silenced by the merciless elements–or the even colder hands of a killer. Haunted and goaded by the soldier-ghost of his own tortured war past, Rutledge will discover the tragedy of war that splintered one marriage–and pulled together another. Love, jealousy, greed, revenge–or was it some twisted combination of all of them? Any one could lead a man or woman to murder. What had the Elcotts done to ignite their killer’s rage? With time running out, Rutledge knows all too well that such a cold-blooded murderer could be hiding somewhere in the blinding snow… preparing to strike again.

Published in 2005, it has 384 pages. This is from the library. 

I've also been reading a nonfiction book called TO THE LIMIT: The untold story of the Eagles by Marc Eliot.

I wish this were a 3-day weekend; would be nice but nothing on the horizon until Labor Day.

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster