Chronicles

I finished reading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. It was okay. Some of it was good and some of it could get a bit heavy-handed and clunky (though there was only one "story" that was really bad...I put it in quotes as it kind of straddles the line between story collection and novel, but overall I'd say it's a novel, and especially as some of the "stories" do not stand alone and are short bits of connecting tissue for the book as a whole...anyway, structurally that's something I like about it). Also after work in the evening, Mary Beth and I went on a walk around the neighborhood. Then late at night we sat out on the front stoop and were talking and ended up getting joined by Peanut. She was very cuddly (though one still has to be careful with one's hands!).