Daily Update: Friday, September 30th, 2016

Today is the Memorial of Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor (died 419), Banned Books Week continues, and today is also the birthday of my son’s best friend Derek (1986).

Daily Update: Thursday, September 29th, 2016

Today is the Feast of Saint Michael, Saint Gabriel, and Saint Raphael, Archangels. Banned Books Week continues, and today is also the birthday of my brother-in-law Bob, the husband of Richard’s Sister Bonnie in Texas (1934).

Daily Update: Wednesday, September 28th, 2016

Today is the Optional Memorial Our Lady, Undoer of Knots, the Optional Memorial of Saint Wenceslaus, King and Martyr (died 929 or 935), the Optional Memorial of Saint Lawrence Ruiz, Martyr, and Companions, Martyrs (died 1637), and the Remembrance of Servant of God John Paul I, Pope (died 1978). In other Catholic news, it is also the anniversary of my baptism into the Catholic Faith (as an infant) in 1958. Banned Books Week continues, and today is the birthday of my friend Annette in Virginia (1956) and of my friend Melissa in Virginia (1971).

Daily Update: Tuesday, September 27th, 2016

Today is the Memorial of Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest (died 1660). Banned Books Week continues.

The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde

This book is the third in the series starring Thursday Next, our favorite Literary Detectives operative in an odd alternative universe England, and apprentice JurisFiction agent inside of novels and other fiction (the JurisFiction offices are located inside of Mansfield Park (from Austin), and the Great Library where all the novels and other fiction ever written in English, published or not, exist is overseen by the Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat, who was the Cheshire Cat before they changed the county boundaries.) I loved this book, which had more plot twists than I remembered (having read the book twice before, once in July 2006 and again in March, 2011.

Daily Update: Monday, September 26th, 2016

Today is the Optional Memorial of Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian, Martyrs (died about 303) and the Optional Memorial of Blessed Paul VI, Pope (died 1978). Banned Books Week continues, and today is the birthday of Richard’s niece Leah, the daughter of his sister Susan in Iowa (1977).