"The Last Chronicle of Barset"

The Last Chronicle of Barset is the last and, to my mind, best book in Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire series of novels. It is considerably darker than the earlier books, and includes one of his finest and most complex creations in the person of Josiah Crawley, the Perpetual Curate of Hogglestock. Trollope intended it as the capstone of the series (as the very title indicates), and characters from each of the previous books - Septimus Harding, the Grantlys, the Proudies, the Thornes, Luftons, and Dales, and even Johnny Eames and Adolphus Crosbie - play significant roles.

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It's a wonderful book. Appreciation of its full richness probably requires familiarity with the rest of the series, but I suspect it would do well enough as a standalone.

Birthday

Happy birthday, sunlizzard!

UUPS

My Universal Power Supply (and I thought it was "uninterruptable"...) just up and died on me. I've placed an order for a new one, but apparently it won't be processed until business hours Monday. Then it'll take a few more days for (the other) UPS to get it to me. I do have surge protection, but I'm going to be antsy for the next week or so...

I should have seen it coming. There've been two or three microinterruptions over the last couple of weeks, and I should have realized that had to mean trouble with the UPS.

The "Current music" listed actually was playing as I composed this.