Not much going on here at OSU this weekend…everyone seems to have cleared out! I hear there’s a rodeo in Perkins, but it’s just too hot for me to want to drive anywhere. I may venture into the swelter occasionally. Like, this morning I went to Best Buy and picked up a pair of speakers for my computer…finally, I can get some decent sound! I love my little Toshiba, but the tinny-sounding, low-volume speakers it has just irritate me. Now I can enjoy some smooth jazz while I write my blog without being directly wired to the audio output by a set a earbuds. Aaaahhhhhhhhhh…
I have read two novels this weekend already…and they have nothing to do with lizards. I decided to check out Hastings here in Stillwater last week. Since I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to read, I decided to look for some books by a facebook friend and fellow Great Dane “owner”, Yvonne Navarro. I found Concrete Savior by myself – in one section – but since it was the second in the Dark Redemption series, I wanted to start at the beginning. Fortunately, the helpful young man at the information desk–never hesitate to ask directions!–pointed me to where Highborn was shelved, and I left the store with both books in hand to read sometime this summer. This was the weekend!
And once I started, I couldn’t stop! I read during meals and way too late into the night, and even gave up my visit to see the dogs this afternoon just to continue reading! (Well, that and it was just too danged hot to have dogs out today…even with a fountain for cooling off.) Yvonne writes very descriptively — I could actually see and feel and smell exactly what the characters are experiencing. And I cried [spoiler alert] when Grunt was injured. I eagerly await the next in the Dark Redemption series…go, Navarro!!
Well, it’s way past my bedtime and I need all the sleep I can get before they bring another group of noisy kids into the dorm for camp this next week. Teenagers away from home…ugh! Those of you traveling, have a safe trip this holiday weekend!