Ruth’s Comments (group member since Feb 27, 2008)

Ruth’s comments from the Language & Grammar group.

I see the fruits, all the stuff we couldn’t do alone so have to do collectively—schools, parks, streets, freeways, curbs, streetlights, police, firefighters, public beaches and lifeguards, universities and colleges... But you know that.

My gripe is about house prices and the stupid regulation we have here in CA that they can’t raise your property taxes except a tiny bit until you sell, when the property gets reassessed. That leads to gross inequities. I pay maybe 6 times the property tax that my neighbor does on essentially the same house, simply because they’ve been in their house for 40 plus years and ive been here for 10.

What? The house prices or the taxes?

Hey, you guys, you want sticker shock? Try SoCal.

Grand Poobah

Rolling Thunder Review

Sleeping dogs

Tom Lehrer

The Lady of Shalott

On Golden Pond

Well, he wasn’t her ghost writer until after she married him.

Charlie Chaplin

Lay, lady lay...

Jane Eyre

Jean Harlow

Slip ‘n Slide

Brahms

knuckle sandwich

The author makes a good case. Beryl had almost no schooling and many people didn’t think she was capable of writing that well (especially if you look at her letters and such) and that it was not her voice. She was living in California when the book was written and was married to the screenwriter, Raoul Schumacher.

I've just finished The Lives of Beryl Markham by Errol Trzebinski. It was interesting, but quite a plod. Four hundred pages of what seemed like everything anyone has ever known about her. He is absolutely convinced that she did not write West With the Night, and he convinced me, too. She was a remarkable woman, although I don't think I would have liked her very much. Terrible decline at the end.

Hercule Poirot