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Luke and I have been reading The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson over the past few weeks.  I remember really enjoying it when I read it as a child, even if I didn't really know who was fighting in the War of the Roses.  And Luke is enjoying it as well, despite the archaic language and difficult to understand motivations. After the third or fourth person was shot in the back and died in front of the main character, he did say, "This is worse than The Hunger Games !"  And I have to say, he's not wrong.  The main character, Dick, kills a spy in cold blood (by surprising him, not really in a fair fight) rather than be discovered, which would mean Dick's certain death.  Then he has to stay all night in disguise in a monk's habit in the abbey praying for the dead spy, after which the monks clean the blood off the floor and prepare for the wedding of Dick's beloved to a greedy, conniving nobleman.  During the wedding, though, the groom is shot through th

"Do you have to fix something everywhere you go?" Luke, after Michael helped with an LED problem at the house we visited for dinner The answer is yes. Yes he does.

When I was a one and a half years old I was an only child, so I had actual adult supervision. -Eleanor, explaining why she didn't climb up into the cabinets when she was little.