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…going on this week. I read a manga “The Prince of Tennis” by Takeshi Konomi. It’s a very good sports manga with lots of rivals (too many to keep track of) and the usual compliment of goofy friends for our hero. Compared to “Hikaru no Go” however, this manga doesn’t really offer many tips for an aspiring tennis player. They went straight to the impossible-to-master techniques like a spin-serve.

For my evening light reading I chose “Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe” by Bill Bryson. It’s very funny and easy to read since it is in short snippets (he doesn’t stay long in any one place.) Someday I’d like to travel and write clever little travelogues like this. Only I wouldn’t be so mean. Why does he travel if he can’t stand the people, the weather, the trains, the food, the customs…etc. It is funny though and just a treat for the evenings.

I watched “Henry VIII” on Masterpiece Theater (well, the first half anyway.) Then I missed the second half with the confusion of the pledge drive, so I ordered the discs through Netflix. So far, it’s been interesting with some very good actors including Ray Winstone, Helena Bonham-Carter and Sean Bean. But, as is typical with these sorts of historical dramas I always feel compelled to read my history books to see what I am missing. After all, these shows are just a director’s conception of an actor’s interpretations of a writer’s re-telling of actual historical fact.

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LIBRARIANS: the books, the fame, the fortune… What more could you want? (Maybe more books.)