I wasn’t feeling very well last week and I couldn’t bring myself to open up my computer. So I decided to spend my time on a jigsaw puzzle. I was so happy to find one of the “Coronation of Napoleon,” an 1807 painting by Napoleon’s official painter Jacques-Louis David. I became infatuated with all things Napoleon and Josephine after reading Sandra Gulland’s historical fiction trilogy that begins with The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. So good. I just finished David McCullough’s 1776, a fascinating look at one monumental year in American history. Did you know that the Revolutionary War actually dragged on until 1783? So today I went to the library to find something new but it was closed for Indigenous People’s Day (formerly known as Columbus Day). I didn’t have anything in mind, was just going to browse the shelves, but perhaps you have something you could recommend?