Bad day for the 8900 block

The office has been bracketed by disaster.

A house in the 8900 block of Kitty Hawk had a dead guy in it.
A building in the 8900 block of Sepulveda caught fire this morning.

Of course, since the fire was in the medical marijuana clinic, things are pretty laid back here at the office this morning.

The Geographer's Library

The Geographer's Library by John Fasman.

I enjoyed it. Not a great book, but a good book. The main story is that of a callow backwater journalist looking to write the obituary of a local professor. The suspicious lack of information he uncovers pushes him to dig deeper, until things start getting weird. Interleaved with this story are historical short-short-stories regarding the theft of unusual items of alchemical significance. Could it all be related? Will our journalist ever find out what's really going on? Yes and no.

Enjoyable, but it never quite gelled, and the climax is more of a pffft than a bang.