I will be taking a break from The Internet for a while, owing to a steadily-growing fear that books might die Any Moment Now. (You may laugh but when they die on Thursday, you’ll be sorry you weren’t at their bedside.) Also, we lost the internet and phones for the whole morning (! with a healthy dose of widespread panic) and it was actually pretty nice.

In the meantime, please accept this simple occasionally-live offering of post-literary puppies. They are starting to get big and extra cute, but you still realize how small they are when one of their owners dwarfs them in the frame.