So I read this book last month, and am only now getting around to mentioning it: Blood and Beauty: The Borgias, by Sarah Dunin. It was a rollicking good historical fiction about the pope's family in 15th century Renaissance Italy. It's like House of Cards, only real! I hadn't realized until after I finished the book and was fact-checking it for historical accuracy that Cesare Borgia, the son of Pope Alexander VI, was actually the model for Machiavelli's The Prince! It was a very screwed up political family, to say the least. And the book was excellent, really bringing the characters to life.
The new season of Dr. Who and Marvel: Agents of SHIELD have been on Netflix for a while now and I haven't seen them. It's a travesty, I know. Don't give me spoilers.
And what else?
Jonathan and the boys went to Lowe's for a "Build and Grow" program this morning. The older boys worked with him to nail together a model wooden car, they each got their own safety goggles, apron and kid hammer.
Connor got one too, but then, as Jonathan tells it, "he hit his brother on the head and the hammer got taken away. Hammers are a privilege, not a right!"
Connor apparently felt differently. :)
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