Book Board Chat

Hi guys. Thanks for your kind thoughts, though I really hate to have any attention paid to my birthdays (old and grouchy, here) - I find nothing to celebrate anymore. Still, we've all been friends for a very long time and so I thank you for your friendship. Lots and lots of water under the bookboard bridge, no? I'm happy that books are still being sold, and haven't disappeared, as many thought, upon the appearance of Nook and other electronic reading devices! Even a librarian here in my town said she thought there would BE no paper books within 10 years. That was almost 10 years ago. lol I'm reading a CJ Box book I'd somehow missed in his series, and found a pleasant little phrase that I liked (remember how we used to share passages from our books from time to time?) ..."The river in the fall was no more than an exhausted stream marking time until winter came and put it out of its misery...." Like so many streams in these western states, they'll sometimes run dry mid-summer; then if the snowpack is good enough, they'll be viable again come spring.