MON NOV 8TH

EARLY MORNING COFFE AND FIRE, GOT TO GET DRESSED. DID NOT GET BILLS PAID WATCHED SOME TV INSTEAD

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RING THE BELLS THAT STILL CAN RING, FORGET YOUR PERFECT OFFERING.  THERE IS A CRACK IN EVERYTHING; THAT'S HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN..  LEONARD COHANS SONG   ANTHEM

SUNDAY  NOVEMBER 7TH WE CLEANED UP THE YARD AND NOW I HAVE BILLS TO PAY AND A FEW MORE THINGS TO CLEAN UP . HAVE BEEN READING SMITHSONIAN MAG i LOVE IT AM READING ABOUT CUSTERS LAST STAND FROM THE INDIAN POINT OF VIEW.  VERY PAINFUL TO READ UNSURE IF   I CAN..  I AM READING THE SPICE BOX BY LOU JAND TEMPLE IT IS GOOD....

A Beefeater, his wife, and their nearly 180-year-old tortoise live in the Tower of London, and if Stuart's deadly charming sophomore novel (after The Matchmaker of Perigord) is any indication, the fortress is as full of intrigue as ever. Balthazar and Hebe Jones lost their son, Milo, to illness three years ago, and while Beefeater Balthazar grieves silently and obsessively collects rainwater in perfume bottles, Hebe wants to talk about their loss openly. Hebe works in the thematically convenient London Underground Lost Property Office, and the abandoned items that reside there (an ash-filled urn, a gigolo's diary, Dustin Hoffman's Oscar) are almost as peculiar as the unruly animals (lovebirds not in love, a smelly zorilla, monkeys with a peculiar nervous tic) in the Tower's new menagerie, given to the queen and overseen by Balthazar. Passion, desperation, and romantic shenanigans abound among the other Tower-dwellers: the Reverend, an erotic fiction writer, has eyes for a bartender, and the Ravenmaster is cheating on his wife with the cook. Though the cuteness sometimes comes across a little thick, the love story is adorable.

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I AM READING THIS NOW AND SO FAR I LOVE IT

the TUGg of an old school tie. The problem, says Sylvanus, concerns his Aunt Florence -- a giddy socialite, terrified of Nazi bombs. Florence has moved her extensive household of hangers-on to the family mansion in upstate New York. But menace seems to have followed them, in the form of threatening messages inserted into the manuscript of Florence's painfully bad novel in progress. Several members of the household are convinced the messages are emanating form Another World, but the politely pragmatic Gamadge suspects a culprit rather closer to home.


See all Editorial Reviews i ENJOYED THIS BOOK AND HOPE TO READ SOME MORE FROM THIS SERIES. i DID SOMETIMES FIND IT CONFUSING THEY IN ONE SENTENCE THEY USED THE CHARACTERS FIRST NAME AND THEN IN ANOTHER THERE LAST NAME BUT ALL IN ALL A GOOD READ