Out of the fog

I'm recovered from the flu but it gave me time to finish "The Alexandria Link" by Steve Berry. He's a cross between Robert Ludlum and Dan Brown in his writing style. There's treason by a couple of high ranking US officials and a mysterious society in Europe. Also, the spin on delving into history to determine what we know is really not true. Berry uses the same characters throughout his novels so it's probably best to start with his first book and work your way through but it isn't necessary to the story. A few comments are made about previous events the characters have been through together. The main character is Cotton Malone who retired as a member of an elite US government agency to become a bookseller in Denmark. He finds himself continually pulled back into his former line of work. This time by his son's kidnapping. He searches for the missing Library of Alexandria which is supposed to hold ancient books and scrolls of the earliest civilizations and the "truth." Neither Israel or Palestine want him to find the library and are on his tail to end his mission. I might take a break from him but I have a couple more of his early books to read.

A boring night on television has helped the reading time, also. Nothing but football or reruns. The Penn State game would have been nice but that's only on cable and we don't have that. Supposedly a big historical game between the Patriots and the Giants. 16 wins hasn't happened since 1972, so go Patriots!

The tree is still up. No one showed up to help take it out of here and with the flu running through the household there was no one able to do it. The oldest son offered but he was struck down by the sickly three year old along with the rest of us.