It's Back

Yes, yes, I'm always going on about owls and nobody knows why. Now that we have that settled, would you be surprised to learn that the 125th selection of the Million Dollar Book Club - SHAKESPEARE'S SISTERS by Ramie Targoff - has an owl in it? No, you would not. The diarist Anne Clifford - one of the eponymous, if figurative, sisters in question - writes "I may truly say I am like an owl in the desert." Longtime "blog" and/or Bible fans will recognize the psalm that she is only very slightly paraphrasing. Why, we've seen it quoted in so many books, including THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY. So many books we've lost count! Well, two or three. Four, counting the Bible. And who wouldn't count the Bible? You? Don't make me laugh.