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What are we reading? 11th May 2022
Paul wrote: "giveusaclue wrote: "I have now finished reading 
and have to confess to being disappointed. The story starts wit..."
Thanks for that Paul.
giveusaclue wrote: "scarletnoir wrote: "giveusaclue wrote: "Sorry, I'm not a trained reviewer. 😢"Haha! Well, neither am I, and it wasn't meant as a criticism but as an encouragement to you to provide a little explan..."
I don't recall there being much description in Reacher, apart maybe from summaries of weaponry and why a particular gun (or whatever) is suited to the task in hand... but the series did run out of steam somewhat, and it was no surprise when Lee Child passed the baton to his brother (I won't bother with those, as series continued by others rarely if ever succeed, IMO.)
As for Reichs, I read a few quite a while back - they were OK, and especially on the technical details of forensic anthropology - not surprising, given that she is one and a very experienced one at that. The plots were often far-fetched. I haven't read any of the later ones - it's hard for authors to maintain interest in series characters.
Berkley wrote: "The odd thing is that the Middle Ages were generally a much more violent, brutal era than the 20th-21st century, at least for Europe. So from that POV there's no obvious reason a medieval mystery should be cozier than a contemporary one."I daresay you're right - but the 'cozy' comment was originally by Clue - I was quoting - so you should have responded to them!
Berkley wrote: "'First there was a thread, then another thread of much the same colour. But next to those, there seemed to be something different - no, sorry, trick of the light, it was another thread. I carried on searching ...'"Haha! Very good!
I assume you made that up... but of course you will have realised that my comment is intended as hyperbole. If it is a real quote, I'd be fascinated to know the source!
Gpfr wrote: "I found myself getting rather confused with the names - there's a list of characters at the beginning, but I was reading it as an e-book and it's not so easy to consult as in a physical book."I know what you mean - if there are many characters, it can be difficult to keep track, especially (I find) if the names are from an unfamiliar culture... however, age may also play a part. I had no problem in coping with Dostoyevsky's many characters - and the many different versions of their names as used in Russia - when I was young, but suspect it would be a much harder task now.
e-books sometimes have a so-called 'X-ray' function, which allows you to find all references to a character in the text - so you can check to see when they were introduced and what they did before. Unfortunately, this only seems to be available on better-selling books; it would be beneficial if it was available on all e-books.
Tam wrote: "I am aching still, from too much gardening on Friday!... The fly-mo's nut and bolt shot off, well must truly have, momentarily, 'flown' away... I guess it's quite satisfying for an object to actual..."Lovely post, Tam - I hope all is going well - love the dragon photo!
BTW - you can only 'lose your nuts' if you had them in the first place... er, I hope I may be forgiven for that slightly 0ff-colour joke!
Georges by Alexandre Dumas has started well, the prose of a master leaps out at you as he describes Isle De France(Mauritius) in the year 1810 and the British attacks on the islandThe battles that led to British control are underway and racial politics are already central to the novel with the father of the title character refused militia service in the defence of Port Louis by the white civilian militia. I almost felt a parallel here with Dumas and his own father, who was a dual heritage Haitien and served in the French Revolutionary Army
Thanks to Andy for recommending Red Milk by Sjon, just finished it and it was a stylistically interesting slim novel, with that hypnotic theme of the dangerous lure of extreme thinkingI hadnt heard of Savitri Devi before, so that was educational and Icelandic fiction always has a place in my heart, such a small population, so much good writing.
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The only ones I've read are the 2 by Erika Fatland which Andy and I both found good.
Herodotus – Book Six. The Athenians come to the fore. When not fighting other Greeks, they help the Ionians in their revolt against Persian rule. Finally, Darius sends his generals to invade mainland Greece.
Marathon: the wings of the smaller Greek army close in and overwhelm the Persian centre, but no messenger runs to Athens to announce victory. According to Herodotus, before the battle Pheidippides ran to Sparta to ask for aid, and after the battle the entire army ran back to Athens, arriving just in time to thwart the Persians who had reboarded their ships and rounded Cape Sounion.
The tone is mainly sombre. Misfortune continues to befall those who defy the gods. There is still room for stories, though, and some cheerful asides.
The density of the factual material is impressive. Herodotus could not possibly have retained all this in his head. When eventually I get to the end, I will have to explore what is known, or speculated, about his filing system.
Another thing I will be interested in is what the Greeks did about dates. In all this vast account there is not one date, which makes for a certain bagginess.
I have switched from the 1858 Armstrong translation to the 2013 Tom Holland translation, which is very good. There are no archaisms, it has an easy flow, and apart from a. few modernisms (pick up on, head off to, give a boost to) it is in a traditional style. It also has two hundred pages of useful supporting material – a glossary of names, a full set of notes, a dozen very necessary maps, and an index of place names, five hundred of them, keyed to the maps. Altogether an excellent production, if rather too weighty to carry about.
Marathon: the wings of the smaller Greek army close in and overwhelm the Persian centre, but no messenger runs to Athens to announce victory. According to Herodotus, before the battle Pheidippides ran to Sparta to ask for aid, and after the battle the entire army ran back to Athens, arriving just in time to thwart the Persians who had reboarded their ships and rounded Cape Sounion.
The tone is mainly sombre. Misfortune continues to befall those who defy the gods. There is still room for stories, though, and some cheerful asides.
The density of the factual material is impressive. Herodotus could not possibly have retained all this in his head. When eventually I get to the end, I will have to explore what is known, or speculated, about his filing system.
Another thing I will be interested in is what the Greeks did about dates. In all this vast account there is not one date, which makes for a certain bagginess.
I have switched from the 1858 Armstrong translation to the 2013 Tom Holland translation, which is very good. There are no archaisms, it has an easy flow, and apart from a. few modernisms (pick up on, head off to, give a boost to) it is in a traditional style. It also has two hundred pages of useful supporting material – a glossary of names, a full set of notes, a dozen very necessary maps, and an index of place names, five hundred of them, keyed to the maps. Altogether an excellent production, if rather too weighty to carry about.
Russell wrote: "Herodotus – Book Six. The Athenians come to the fore. When not fighting other Greeks, they help the Ionians in their revolt against Persian rule. Finally, Darius sends his generals to invade mainla..."are you reading this in e-form Russell or the Penguin Classics version or something else? Herodutus and other histories the first few centuries fascinate me. Last year i was dabbling into islamic history of the slavic regions of Russia and Ukraine, when they were a patchwork of pagan cultures
i wonder what % of us are e-readers, i would suggest its 60% e-reader/40% physical books
i have never touched an e-reader and never read a book digitally
Progressing with Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, though a character called Capaldi keeps bringing to mind Peter Capaldi. Not the Doctor Who version, more his wonderful Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It, or his earliest incarnation doing that “girly” run in Local Hero.
AB76 wrote: "Russell wrote: "Herodotus – Book Six... are you reading this in e-form Russell or the Penguin Classics version or something else?"
Not an e-reader (which I use maybe once a year, for e.g. light novels). I started with the Armstrong translation in a nice neat HB Everyman copy, which has pretty good notes and a sort of explanatory index but no maps at all, and have moved to a handsome though heavy HB copy from Viking in the Holland translation which the library got for me. It would be a fine addition to a home library.
Not an e-reader (which I use maybe once a year, for e.g. light novels). I started with the Armstrong translation in a nice neat HB Everyman copy, which has pretty good notes and a sort of explanatory index but no maps at all, and have moved to a handsome though heavy HB copy from Viking in the Holland translation which the library got for me. It would be a fine addition to a home library.
Russell wrote: "AB76 wrote: "Russell wrote: "Herodotus – Book Six... are you reading this in e-form Russell or the Penguin Classics version or something else?"Not an e-reader (which I use maybe once a year, for ..."
i like the idea of that, a heavy HB copy....plus using library services too!
Okay, UKers, I have a question. I have finally finished George V: Never a Dull Moment and have been left wondering what happened to all those birds he shot? Given that he kept score, and it seems that there were at least 100 killed each time he shot which he did as often as he could, did anyone ever eat these birds? Or were they then just shoveled over somewhere?Other than that, I've taken away a couple of items - British aristocracy were lousy at bringing up kids, so much so that Edward VIII's abdication ought not to have been surprising, and the second is about stuttering. George VI was left-handed before being forced to change as was my older sister. My sister stuttered when she got excited, so on the strength of these two people, I wonder if there is a correlation.
scarletnoir wrote (#107):BTW - you can only 'lose your nuts' if you had them in the first place... Now that made me think: What if you ARE nuts to start with? Could you lose (some of) your nuts? And what would be the result if you could?
Tam wrote(#100): "I am aching still, from too much gardening on Friday!... The fly-mo's nut and bolt shot off, well must truly have, momentarily, 'flown' away... I guess it's quite satisfying for an object to actual..."Tam wrote: "I am aching still, from too much gardening on Friday!... The fly-mo's nut and bolt shot off, well must truly have, momentarily, 'flown' away... I guess it's quite satisfying for an object to actual..."
:-)
As for the selfie: still undecided who is more fetching, the dragon or her keeper.
Enjoy tonights celebrations!
I've just listened to Louise Erdrich being interviewed on Front Row about her Women's Prize shortlisted book. I liked her. I've never read anything by Erdrich, one of those authors who is on what could be described roughly as my 'well, of course I would read them if I only had more time' list.
MK wrote: "Okay, UKers, I have a question. I have finally finished George V: Never a Dull Moment and have been left wondering what happened to all those birds he shot? .."They do all get eaten. The beaters get given those that are 'badly shot' ie lead pellets in the breast or whose innards have been pierced and contaminated the flesh, and they go round giving them to their friends. Butchers in the area always had braces of birds hanging up (no longer allowed I believe, not 'in the feather' as we say). Many's the time I've plucked, drawn and pot-roasted a pheasant, not to say pulled out feather covered shot from its anatomy.
I'll stop there in case we have a few vegans amongst us.
@Anne. Shame I missed the Louise Erdrich interview. Will have to catch it on Listen Again. Have read, and enjoyed most of her novels, more on that tmrw. Think I mentioned previously that have seen her at that there Bookfest, and remember her as a gentle, interesting, and interested, soul.
scarletnoir wrote: "I assume you made that up... but of course you will have realised that my comment is intended as hyperbole. If it is a real quote, I'd be fascinated to know the source!"No, just a silly joke that I probably should have thought twice about before clicking the Post button.
AB76 wrote: "Russell wrote: "Not an e-reader (which I use maybe once a year, for e.g. light novels). I started with the Armstrong translation in a nice neat HB Everyman copy, which has pretty good notes and a sort of explanatory index but no maps at all, and have moved to a handsome though heavy HB copy from Viking in the Holland translation which the library got for me. It would be a fine addition to a home library."i like the idea of that, a heavy HB copy....plus using library services too!
The ultimate heavy, bulky edition meant for home use would be the The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories, which has the most thorough and detailed supplementary material I've seen - perhaps more than most readers would find desirable. They've done a few in this format: Thucydides, Xenophon, Arrian, ... I'm waiting for them to come out with their long-promised Polybius but it's been years and still no sign of it.
MK wrote: "Other than that, I've taken away a couple of items - British aristocracy were lousy at bringing up kids, so much so that Edward VIII's abdication ought not to have been surprising, and the second is about stuttering. George VI was left-handed before being forced to change as was my older sister. My sister stuttered when she got excited, so on the strength of these two people, I wonder if there is a correlation."
Interesting question. I have no idea but it seems to me that any sort of ongoing stress suffered over time during a child's formative years might potentially cause all kinds of problems later in life.
Berkley wrote: "...The ultimate heavy, bulky edition meant for home use would be the The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories..."
A new one to me, thanks. I'll check it out.
A new one to me, thanks. I'll check it out.
Georg wrote: "scarletnoir wrote (#107):BTW - you can only 'lose your nuts' if you had them in the first place... Now that made me think: What if you ARE nuts to start with? Could you lose (some of) your nuts? ..."
I am not 100% certain that you understood my slang usage of 'nuts'...
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...
AB76 wrote: "Russell wrote: "i wonder what % of us are e-readers, i would suggest its 60% e-reader/40% physical books"I read both, depending.
If the book is by an author I particularly like, or sometimes if it is a 'serious' book or even has an interesting cover - then paper. If part of reading for entertainment rather than anything else (genre crime books, say), then an e-book is the wise choice - especially as all the bookshelves are full, many double-stacked, and my wife carries out a campaign of harassment every so often for me to choose a few that can be banished to Oxfam!
One useful feature of e-books - it's possible to order a free sample, which in some cases has saved me money when it becomes clear that the work in question will not be to my taste.
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"I read both, depending..."
I also read both. Physical books, like scarletnoir, if it's an author I really like. Also just something that catches my eye in a bookshop - or, for example, if it's a book with photographs in ...
I was at first very anti- e-reader, then on a trip with a friend who had one, I began to see some advantages. So I started reading e-books mainly for travelling, and then for commuting (I had a lot of stuff to carry around as well as what I was reading). Then there's the question of space, my flat is full of books - and also of price ... I wouldn't give up my e-reader now, but I definitely won't get rid of my physical books.
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Don't know if anyone's had a look at this link - some of the recommendations look really interesting
scarletnoir wrote: "Georg wrote: "scarletnoir wrote (#107):BTW - you can only 'lose your nuts' if you had them in the first place... Now that made me think: What if you ARE nuts to start with? Could you lose (some o..."
Aaargh! Well, it is at least a small consolation that the penny dropped this time without needing to look it up.
scarletnoir wrote: "Tam wrote: "I am aching still, from too much gardening on Friday!... The fly-mo's nut and bolt shot off, well must truly have, momentarily, 'flown' away... I guess it's quite satisfying for an obje..."Ha! I must have just had a 'trans' moment where I suddenly thought that I had changed sex or something... Anyway the 'nuts' idea has just bolted off somewhere else...
Georg wrote: "Aaargh! Well, it is at least a small consolation that the penny dropped this time without needing to look it up."Haha!
Well, if it's any consolation, when I was looking for a link to the usage intended, I was surprised to see an even ruder and cruder definition, which I suspect may be more common in the USA - I have certainly never heard or seen the word used in that sense in the UK. So you are not alone in an incomplete knowledge of slang use in English...
(My current reading, If He Hollers Let Him Go is excellent but full of, possibly dated, US slang and technical terms relating to shipyard work, many of which mean little to me, so I have to use my imagination and judgement, such as they are...)
Gpfr wrote: "I started reading e-books mainly for travelling... Then there's the question of space, my flat is full of books - and also of price ... I wouldn't give up my e-reader now, but I definitely won't get rid of my physical books.That about sums it up for me as well.
I have mentioned before that I read on the e-reader mostly now because it is easier on my hands. I do read physical books when it comes to borrowing from the library or the occasional older one that I buy from Abebooks. As others have said, e-readers are ideal for travelling, commuting or holidays.
@ Anne, thanks for your lovely introduction to this thread, as always. I'm just up after a night shift and I'm thrilled to have the next 10 days off. Most of my work free time of late had been dedicated to the consumption of TV based distractions - mostly in the crime genre (rewatch of The Wire and first watch of Spiral, Dexter New Blood and Bosch (the latter Mr Fuzzywuzz and I have been calling Bish Bash Bosch). I've also just bought the box set of True Detective).
What I watch mirrors what I read, which is largely crime fiction, although I am trying to stretch those tendrils a little into other areas.
So starting with crime was
, a story set in New Orleans in 1919, loosely based on a true story involving murders committed by The Axeman. Ray Celestin creates a rich view of New Orleans (I love a book which includes a map at the start) and great characters of those who are investigating the crimes. I loved this so much I bought his second book
.I'm very much enjoying reading Michael Connelly books.
didn't disappoint. The book starts off with the premise that everyone lies and the story evolves to prove just that. I think that lawyer Mickey Haller working from the back of one of his many Lincoln cars is a bit daft mind, but I love how Connelly has included Harry Bosch in the lawyer series of books.I'm almost finished reading
which is like a crossover between Cujo and Misery but enjoyable all the same. There is very little of the supernatural in this tale - this is more a psychological type horror in which Jessie Burlingame, who is trapped handcuffed to her bed, alone becomes mentally tortured by the multiple voices in her head, reliving past traumatic events. I thought this was a rather excellent paragraph for Gerald's Game:
I'm talking about condescension - a man-versus-woman thing - but I'm also talking about something a hell of a lot bigger and a hell of a lot more frightening, as well. He (Brandon Milheron, Jessie's friend) didn't understand, you see, and that has nothing to do with any differences between the sexes; that's the curse of being human, and the surest proof that all of us are really alone. Terrible things happened in that house Ruth, I didn't know just how terrible until later, and he didn't understand that. I told him the things I did in order to keep that terror from eating me alive, and he nodded and he smiled and he sympathised, and I think it ended up doing me some good but he was the best of them, and he never got within shouting distance of the truth...of how the terror just seemed to keep growing until it became this big black haunted house inside my head. It's still there, too, standing with its door open, inviting me to come back inside anytime I want, and I never do want to go back, but sometimes I find myself going back, anyway, and the minute I step inside, the door slams shut behind me and locks itself.
I think this sums up fear quite nicely - just the thought of being truly alone with one's fears is quite horrific.
I might like to add here that reading really does bring out my inner sloth. TWICE in the last week I've stayed in bed until lunchtime and it has been fabulous.Regarding paper versus electronic versions of books - I'm almost certainly in the camp of the organic version. However, as my eyesight is tweaking to accommodate middle age, e-readers might become important later on.
Catalonia based literature has been a part of my reading in last 2 years with catalan language novels (Rodereda,Bonet) and journals (Pla)My current modern novel is by Juan Marse, a catalan who writes in Spanish called The Snares of Memory its an intellectual, playful novel of the act of writing a novel about a murder in the 1940s.
Am looking foward to returning to Josep Pla (when i finish Rambles in Eirinn), and his memoir of youth in Barcelona in 1919, the first half of his Gray Notebook was a superb account of life in rural Catalonia, as the flu epidemic forces him to suspend his law studies at Barcelona University.
giveusaclue wrote: "I have mentioned before that I read on the e-reader mostly now because it is easier on my hands. I do read physical books when it comes to borrowing from the library or the occasional older one tha..."makes sense.....if e-readers are more comfortable and easier to read, probably cheaper too
AB76 wrote: "Thanks to Andy for recommending Red Milk by Sjon, just finished it and it was a stylistically interesting slim novel, with that hypnotic theme of the dangerous lure of extreme thinkingI hadnt he..."
Good you enjoyed it AB.
I’m an admirer of his work generally. Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was, which concerns the Spanish Flu pandemic, is very good as well.
Recently he’s done quite a bit of screen writing.
He adapted a saga for The Northman, directed by Dave Eggers. I don’t think it’s quite my thing, but I probably will watch it.
And, the incredibly strange Icelandic film Lamb, which was very good, and very off-the-wall.
Fuzzywuzz wrote: "@ Anne, thanks for your lovely introduction to this thread, as always. I'm just up after a night shift and I'm thrilled to have the next 10 days off. Most of my work free time of late had been de..."
Those Celestin’s are part of the City Blues Quartet FW. I’ve not long ago finished the 3rd, but someone here, pardon me for not recalling who, had finished all four. They just keep getting better…
I’ve had 3 great days of reading with The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.
Hard to review a book so loved by so many, but here goes..
Southern writing can be bleak, but McCullers plunges new depths of desolation here in the vivid images she creates of loneliness, insanity, mob violence and terror.
She simply does despair so very well. It seems to come more natural to her than her contemporaries.
There’s a perverse tenderness to the threads that attempt to emerge out of the cloud of loneliness; that of adolescent aspiration, crude religion, a godlike deaf mute with a sense of reason sought by many as a way out.
But in the end, everyone will lose.
Like John Singer, the mute, McCullers demonstrates an astonishing humanity in consideration of black characters; she writes with ease and a sense of justice that transcends politics.
More so even than her other work, this is a strange and very powerful book, which stands apart from anything I have ever read, distinguished by its uncompromising sincerity.
Here’s a few of the many passages that I thought were worth noting down..
(from which its possible to see that McCullers creates all this bleakness, with just a smidgen of humour)
Biff the barman..
What he had said to Alice was true - he did like freaks. He had a special friendly feeling for sick people and cripples.
Whenever somebody with a harelip or TB came into the place he would set him up to beer. Or if the customer were a hunchback or a bad cripple, then it would be whisky in the house. There was one fellow who had had his peter and his left leg blown off in a boiler explosion, and whenever he came to town there was a free pint waiting for him.
Mick (the appealing 12 year old).. .
Mick drew the big black letters very slowly. At the top she wrote EDISON, and under that she drew the names of DICK TRACY and MUSSOLINI. Then in each corner with the largest letters of all and outlined in red, she wrote her initials - M.K. When that was done she crossed over to the opposite wall and wrote a very bad word - PUSSY, and beneath that she put her initials too.
Portia.. (the maid, to Mick)
’But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you.
This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied. You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to bear hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined. Won’t nothing help you then.’
Mick, just before her party..
She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One of the other.
Six different ways she tried out her hair. The cowlicks were a little trouble, so she wet her bangs and made three spit curls.
Last of all she stuck the rhinestones on her hair and put on plenty of lipstick and paint. When she finished she lifted up her chin and half-closed eyes like a movie star. Slowly she turned her face from one side to the other. It was beautiful she looked - just beautiful.
She didn’t feel herself at all. She was somebody different from Mick Kelly entirely. Two hours to pass before the party would begin, and she was ashamed for any of her family to see her dressed so far ahead of time. She went into the bathroom again and locked the door. She couldn’t mess up her dress by sitting down, so she stood in the middle of the floor. She felt so different from the old Mick Kelly that she knew this would be better than anything else in her whole life.
The kids talking..
‘I wonder has Harry still got his gold piece,’ Spareribs said.
‘What gold piece?’
‘When a Jew boy is born they put a gold piece in the bank for him. That’s what Jews do.’
‘Shucks. You got it mixed up,’ she said (Mick). ‘It’s Catholics you’re thinking about. Catholics buy a pistol for a baby soon as it’s born. Some day the Catholics mean to start a war and kill everybody else.’
‘Nuns give me a funny feeling,’ Spareribs said. ‘It scares me when I see one on the street.’
Andy wrote: "AB76 wrote: "Thanks to Andy for recommending Red Milk by Sjon, just finished it and it was a stylistically interesting slim novel, with that hypnotic theme of the dangerous lure of extreme thinking..."his afterword about the creation of the novel was interesting too, i have made a note of his other novels, they are on my list!
giveusaclue wrote: "I have mentioned before that I read on the e-reader mostly now because it is easier on my hands..."One other advantage which I should have mentioned - as my mother's eyesight deteriorated in her 90s, she switched to an e-reader as the font size can be enlarged... that worked fine for a couple of years, until she had to go over to audiobooks. Following a cataract op, she'll go to the opticians this morning though I rather doubt even powerful specs will make reading possible as she also suffers from macular degeneration. We'll see... she'll be 100 on Friday.
Andy wrote: "Those Celestin’s are part of the City Blues Quartet FW. I’ve not long ago finished the 3rd, but someone here, pardon me for not recalling who, had finished all four. They just keep getting better…"That would be me, I think... each book is set in a different city and in a different decade:
The Axeman's Jazz - New Orleans (1919)
Dead Man's Blues - Chicago (1928)
The Mobster's Lament - New York (1947) and
Sunset Swing - Los Angeles (late 1960s)
A highly recommended series.
scarletnoir wrote: "giveusaclue wrote: "I have mentioned before that I read on the e-reader mostly now because it is easier on my hands..."One other advantage which I should have mentioned - as my mother's eyesight ..."
happy birthday on friday yo your ma.....100...respect!
our oldest client at the day centre is 98, he is in almost perfect physical condition, walks as fast as me but sadly dementia causes some issues
scarletnoir wrote: "giveusaclue wrote: "I have mentioned before that I read on the e-reader mostly now because it is easier on my hands..."One other advantage which I should have mentioned - as my mother's eyesight ..."
Sorry about your mum's eyesight, that is everybody's dread. Congrats on her 100th though.
Art query, i have found some excellent digitised art journals from fin de siecle Catalonia My new profile pic is an etching of a sultry catalan lass, which reminds me of the work of Casas. There is no credit on the drawing, does anyone know if this is a Casas work of art?
scarletnoir wrote: "We'll see... she'll be 100 on Friday."When my nanna turned turned 100, I said 'now Nanna, they say in cricket that when you bring up your ton, you have to go on and make it a big ton'.
scarletnoir wrote: "Andy wrote: "Those Celestin’s are part of the City Blues Quartet FW. I’ve not long ago finished the 3rd, but someone here, pardon me for not recalling who, had finished all four. They just keep get..."Andy mentioned someone who talks about those books and I thought it was you, right enough.
Happy birthday to your mum on Friday!
Andy - I enjoyed those Carson McCullers quotes.
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