I have temporarily set aside Redemption for a book that I fell in love with during the first page of reading. How to be Good by Nick Hornby (known for verbal wit and realistically comical satire) is filled with candor, desperation, competitiveness, emotional nudity, and figurative armed defenses. The narrator, Katie Carr, is both brilliant in her honesty, and idiotic in her situational blindness. This makes for prose that is depressingly hilarious, and definitely makes the novel itself a good summer read. Also, my personal joy is that I catch the British slang and can envision precisely where she is in London (courtesy of Doctor Who and Google Image Search).

In more urbane news: I did laundry today in the company of "differently abled persons". One of these persons had managed to urinate himself before the party left, while many of the others seemed impervious to my polite pleads of "Excuse me" and "Can I pass through here, please". That was an adventure.

I am looking forward to my Bible reading this evening. It is water, that's for sure.