Today’s guest blogger is William Kent Krueger --- “the Michael Connelly of the Midwest” --- whose latest novel,
Sarah Blake is the author of THE POSTMISTRESS
Beth Hoffman --- author of the New York Times bestseller and Bookreporter.com Bets On pick SAVING CEECEE HONEYCUTT
November 24, 2010
I am just back from Orlando where I attended the National Council of Teachers of English Conference at one of the Disney properties. The endless refrain there was “Have a magical day!” said with such cheeriness that I felt I was trapped in some sugar-coated dream. I loathe manufactured fun, thus when I called the other night asking about a lap pool on the property, I was cringing when they told me there was none, but there was a pool with a large slide located near the themed dig site. Lucky for me, I have zip sense of direction, and thus I found a different pool that did not have these over-the-top amenities; rather I was happy with lines for laps on the bottom, which I always thought of as one of the prerequisites for “a lap pool.
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