1. Tal: Happy birthday, I wish you NOTHING but the best for the coming year, good health, good friends, good days and good nights.
2. Yes the Lady took her own life. I'd just finished reading a chapter in a book about WWII and had the horrors of war in my head when I "misspoke", as it were.
3. I love me a good murder mystery as well. I get Amazon Reads books every month for $1.99 each, on new releases by obscure authors. Mostly I've been selecting historic fiction that takes me all around the world, from North and South Korea, to Ireland, Alaska, the African slave trade, and currently, the Holocaust in Poland during WWII (Clara's War, by Clara Kramer). I still like Chaucer though. And Shakespeare. There's NOTHING like a good book to take you away from your troubles. Except perhaps music. Music has charms to soothe the savage breast. But I read that in a book too
