On to Book 7! In between grading papers–or deciding the essays can wait yet another day because I really, really want to record–I’ve completed the first three chapters. (Maybe I should quit assigning so much homework so I can have more time for this important stuff . . .)

Get your eye-rolling ready, because Young Pere is the most naïve young man you’ll ever meet. (But Mahrree loves him, so we put up with him.)