NO FFB TODAY

Even though I am a technophobe and a Luddite, I do not hate computers.  On the other hand, computers hate me.  More specifically, my computer hates me.  Big time.

So there I was.  Getting ready to write a Forgotten Book review in my usual urbane, literate, and pithy style when my computer suddenly went psycho ex-girlfriend on me.  Passages were deleted with o hope of getting them back, phrases and full sentences suddenly moved to the middle of the wrong paragraphs, the page would suddenly hopscotch back and forth to a 440% magnification, stopping at every magnification in between, sentences would mysteriously capitalize, my screen would refuse to continue down the draft I was writing , and it would take about five efforts to correct a typo or misspelling (and I do tend to make a lot of them), the computer kept switching over without warning to Netflix or Facebook or Kindle, and so on and so on and so on in a purely demonic fashion.  After four hours and three repeated tries to rewrite the post, I finally gave up.

So no post today.

The book I was going to review was The Birds of a Feather Affair, the second of The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. paperback originals by Michael Avallone.  A shame, because Avo started it off with a kick-ass paragraph.

Oh, well.

For those interested, there's the link to the book from Luminist Archives:

https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/EB/A/Avallone%20-%20The%20Birds-of-a-Feather%20Affair.pdf

Maybe I'll have better luck next week.  I'm thinking of bringing in an exorcist.