early iron bowl news… bama leads auburn 15-12 in college volleyball

(this blog update brought to you by the good folks at channel 23 and the lone person in the world who is not excited about NFL even a little bit on sundays – which is why he’d rather watch volleyball:)

i’m going to try this week to spend as little possible time reading serious books – my attention must be given to the bama-lsu game – b/c what i do matters for this game, of course (hope coach saban doesn’t read that or else he’d yell that of course it matters, that my voice makes a difference – anyway…)

“the pathfinder” – a high school BOB – 662 pages of time traveling frustration – just didn’t work well at all for me – way too long – way too simplistic in plot – the antagonist was the mom – which was just wrong – and the people could go back and reverse whatever they did wrong or messed up – even see themselves in the future – which violated totally the whole marty mcfly space-time continuum lessons doc brown gave in “back to the future” – c’mon people, did we not learn from that movie how space works??? grr…

“divergent” – sorry to all my middle school kids that have read this book and LOVED it, but i read it for high school BOB and thought it was twilight – basically, a sappy romance that will lead to future books in a series (and a film) – on the positive note, i did like that it was set in chicago…

i’m working currently on “the plague year” by edward bloor – historical fiction from 2001 – post-sept. 11 – i’m a third of the way through and love it – no surprise there b/c i do love me some edward bloor

guess that’s it beyond the magazines and Bible – hope your week is great

maf