And now, a few words from our blogger.....

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Hi, all. It's a hot mid-spring day here in the ol' Sunshine State; it is hot (91 degrees), muggy, and it looks as though we may get some scattered storms this evening. I'm as well as I can be; I am getting over a cold that has been bugging me since last week, but other than that, I'm in good shape. There are days when I miss my mom so much that I can't think straight, but by and large my life is slowly but surely getting back on an even keel.

(C) 2011 Yale University Press


 I was going to write a book review of Robert Gerwarth's Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich today, but I feel sleepy and can't focus well enough on the task to do a good job, so I'll put it aside for a while. It's an interesting biography of the only Nazi leader targeted for assassination by the Allies during the war, so it deserves a well-written critique.

  But. I. Don't. Feel. Up. To. It. At. The. Moment.

 Right now I'm having a hard time staying awake, and the mere thought of having to come up with an informative-yet-witty book review gives me the heebie-jeebies.

 I would love to say that I'll review Hitler's Hangman tomorrow, for sure, but I think I will end up writing about The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, the first movie ever written by Nicholas Meyer.  Herbert Ross (The Turning Point, Footloose) produced and directed it, but Meyer adapted his own 1974 Sherlock Holmes pastiche novel  - and earned an Academy Award nomination for it. Shout! Factory released The Seven-Per-Cent Solution in a Blu-ray/DVD combo set in 2013; I recently acquired a set and plan to watch it tonight.

So, on that note, I'll be signing off for the day. Peace out, gang! 

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