Post-Dispatch & New York Times blogged by Will K.

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2 hours

I mostly read the newspaper, the Post Dispatch and the New York Times. I read about how summer school is letting out and no one can really tell how much it helps because the testing is scant, if it's there at all, although the story seemed preoccupied with places like Normandy, and Riverview Gardens, not mentioning Clayton or Ladue, which I found a rather interesting omission. Then I read about how the Cardinals are going to have a very difficult time replacing the injured Yadier Molina, and I read about the Israeli mortar strikes in Gaza, and about the surge of children coming into the United States from South America.

An Abundance of Katherines blogged by Will K.

I have 8 hours to report.

I read An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. The main character, Colin, only dates girls named Katherine, and he has dated 19, and they've all dumped him. After he is dumped by the last Katherine, dubbed Katherine XIX, he is so depressed that he decides to take his best friend, Hassan, and go on a road trip. He doesn't care where or when, he just wants to leave. So he drives and drives and he sees on a roadside sign "Headstone of Archduke of Austria-Hungary." They pulled over because Colin was obsessed with mattering. He wanted to be remembered for doing something, and he thought that he had to make some great discovery or make lots of money, but the idea that it might just come to him, like it came to the Austro-Hungarian Archduke, a fellow who did nothing his whole life, waiting to become monarch of his country, and would be remembered for a long time because he died and caused the first world war. He mattered by chance. This idea appealed to Colin, so they went to see it. When they got there, to a town called Gutshot, Tennessee, they took a tour and met a girl named Lindsey. Then the move into Lindsey's house with her mother and get a "job" recording people's stories of the old times in Gutshot. They meet Lindsey's friends and boyfriend, and they have all sorts of adventures, including pig hunting, and multiple trips to the local Taco Bell.