A Tofino Friday

We've been at our favorite spot in Tofino for the last week - home on Monday. The weather has been alternately very stormy and beautifully sunny. Today has been sort of grey and foggy, but there have been a ton of surfers out there in the water - I bet somewhere between 150-200. Amazing little black heads bobbing above the waves everywhere. We have had our share of excellent food, and have enjoyed our routine of various projects, walks on the beach, and reading.

I finished Border Songs by Jim Lynch and enjoyed it very much. It's always fun to read about a place with which you have more than a passing acquaintance. The ending is a little too pat, perhaps, but the book is worth reading. I read that on my Kindle, which I am also enjoying a lot. It is a good reading experience. Now I'm reading the first of Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey novels, Whose Body?, which I also have on my Kindle. Every couple years I read all eleven novels again. They are full of so many wonderful things! I've been doing that from time to time over almost 40 years, and I'm not tired of it yet!

In between the e-book reads, I held a real book in my hands and raced through the latest Inspector Montalbano book by Andrea Camilleri, The Track in the Sand. I love these books! This one is worth it for the chapter about the charity horse race, and especially for the almost full-page description of Salvo Montalbano tasting a very bad soup!

The other projects have been knitting ones and computer clean-up tasks. Ugh to the latter, but it has to be done. We also had some Netflix discs with us, catching up on some TV we missed when we lived at Holden. So we watched some of last season's NCIS, and now we're doing Season 4 of Doc Martin. What a great show that is!

Since I mentioned the amazon Kindle, some comments about the current amazon boycott are in order. The book causing the protest is appalling in every regard. But any kind of censorship is also a slippery slope. I'm sure any of us could come up with novels and essays (Anais Nin comes to mind) where such territory is explored. So I'm not sure that boycotts or censorship are the solutions. I'll look forward to hearing your comments.