Let the tournament resume!!
Actually, the tournament (and the reading itself) was never interrupted. The matches have advanced far beyond what we have reported here on these, our official Ides pages. And as slow as we are to catch the competition curve and report the action as it happens and with some stab at vainglorious wit, the GREAT LARCENY has all but stopped us in our tracks. Until now. Now, we are back with a vengeance.
Because. Kids. Need. Books.
Speaking of which, if you haven't donated to this year's cause via this handy link, just give a little click and throw some shekels to Book Wagon. $20 or more will qualify you for copies of all the titles in the tournament. So hey, come on, don't force us into that public-radio-pledge-drive-broken-record mode that we all know yet don't really care for. Be a team player. You came this far. What's twenty bucks to support literacy. No question mark there; it's a rhetorical questions.
Finally, to those of you who have been following faithfully--the many who have donated, read, pitched in, and backed our Second Annual--thank you for your patience.
And to Salt Lake City's finest, thanks to you as well. Of course, no one from your ranks ever called us back to book an investigation log on our theft report. We never received what we thought until now was the obligatory follow up from one of our local protectors and servers. That's right. Zilch. Nada. But we thank you just the same. Because you, dear Salt Lake Police, are getting paid to do your jobs, and we are working at this, our job, for the love of literacy and nothing more. And you have proved once again, police department, that love of learning and literacy and literature--even in the face of all odds (err...or at least one, minor, everyday inconvenience)--shall prevail, even at the hands of derelict, overworked and underachieving would-be do gooders.
You make us look good.
**ALL MATCH AND BRACKET UPDATES, ROUND OF EIGHT JUDGES, AND ADDITIONAL ENTERTAINING INFORMATION POST LATER TODAY**
