Luckily Coda wasn't like this on the way to the vet

I took Coda to the vet this morning. Last night I found a hard lump, slightly smaller than a ping pong ball, at his throat, inside and to the right. The vet biopsied a couple samples and hopefully we will hear something by the end of the week. My shocker: he's 117 pounds. He did really well, though he didn't like his temp being taken. :)

On the nonfiction side of reading, I'm about to start ELIZABETH OF YORK by Alison Weir. Here is a description:

Her birth was greeted with as much pomp and ceremony as that of a male heir. The first child of King Edward IV, Elizabeth enjoyed all the glittering trappings of royalty. But after the death of her father; the disappearance and probable murder of her brothers—the Princes in the Tower; and the usurpation of the throne by her calculating uncle Richard III, Elizabeth found her world turned upside-down: She and her siblings were declared bastards. As Richard’s wife, Anne Neville, was dying, there were murmurs that the king sought to marry his niece Elizabeth, knowing that most people believed her to be England’s rightful queen. Weir addresses Elizabeth’s possible role in this and her covert support for Henry Tudor, the exiled pretender who defeated Richard at the Battle of Bosworth and was crowned Henry VII, first sovereign of the House of Tudor. Elizabeth’s subsequent marriage to Henry united the houses of York and Lancaster and signaled the end of the Wars of the Roses. For centuries historians have asserted that, as queen, she was kept under Henry’s firm grasp, but Weir shows that Elizabeth proved to be a model consort—pious and generous—who enjoyed the confidence of her husband, exerted a tangible and beneficial influence, and was revered by her son, the future King Henry VIII.

Published in 2013, it has 608 pages. This is a digital loan from the library. I love this quote from the book:

She was the daughter, sister, niece, wife, mother, and grandmother of monarchs: daughter to Edward IV, sister to Edward V, niece to Richard III, wife to Henry VII, mother to Henry VIII, and grandmother to Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I; and she was the mother of two queen consorts. She was also the ancestress of every English monarch since 1509, every Scots monarch since 1513, and every British monarch since 1603, including the present queen Elizabeth II.

So I hope it's a good read.

It started out as a dark, cool, rainy day but then the sun came out. Bah. :) AND it's only Tuesday.

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster