I had a happy/peppy blog entry scheduled for today. I was going to write about finishing the bunny book, about how I struggled with the ending, trying to make sure I had some sort of closure rather than wrapping up the external conflict but leaving the internal festering. Then I rode the train back to my local train station and discovered that someone had cut the back out of my car top.

My car is a convertable and the back window is a sheet of plastic. It's pretty expensive (I've had to replace it before because it gets sunburned or splits with the cold), but this was the first time I've actually had it stolen. This is amazing to me. I mean, it's a sheet of plastic. I'd already had some kids poke holes in it, so it wasn't even very new or pristine. But it puts a really bad taste in my mouth. What kind of jerk hangs around in parking lots and rips off peoples' ragtops? I don't know what to do. This is twice in the past six months that my car has been violated in the DART parking lot. I don't feel like I can leave it there in the evening, but I don't have any great choices. I suppose I can start walking to the train rather than driving. No problem in the early evening, but coming home from Tae Kwon Do, it's generally after ten.

I finished reading MOON'S WEB by C. T. Adams and Cathy Clamp. I hoped to get a review of ILLEGAL by Paul Levine up today but that didn't happen. So, I owe you two reviews. Next up, THE CITY & THE CITY by China Mieville.

I'm going to make VEIL OF THE GODDESS by Rob Preece the www.BooksForABuck.com book of the day. The discovery of the True Cross under a bombed Iraqi mosque sets off a countdown for what just might become the end-times. And there's a shady group who's pushing to make sure nothing gets in the way of the final apocalypse. An action-packed thriller. Only $3.99. Learn more, read the excerpt or buy the book here: http://www.booksforabuck.com/mystery/mys_06/veil_goddess.html  (available in HTML, Adobe Acrobat PDF, eReader, Mobipocket, Microsoft Reader, Sony Reader and ePub formats). Here's the cover (cover design by Cat Baldwin):

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