I bought a couple of books yesterday and started reading last night for the first time in several months. Unfortunately I’m not off to a good start with Second Time Around by "international best seller" Mary Higgins Clark. The plot starts in shaky fashion with irate shareholders protesting the collapse of a company. Nothing unusual about that, except Clark portrays them as having invested for altruistic reasons to support a cancer cure. On what planet would that happen? She blew me away though with this second-rate description of New York’s weather in April: "The sun was shining and the sky was intensely blue. The few clouds overhead were like puffs of white cushions". Imagine how dull that sentence would have been if the sky had been plain blue instead of "intensely" blue. What’s the difference anyway?