Reading Through History

[Julie]

We've had our office close early due to things like a blackout or a huge snowstorm but not nice weather. Lucky you!

[Sasha]

Yeah, my job is pretty cushy sometimes. :)

[Kristopher]

It sounds cool, Alex. It's on my TBR read, now. At this rate, it'll be a couple years before I get to it, though.

Kristopher

[Sasha]

Know how you feel, man. I wish I lived like 1500 years ago, when you could become a monk, read for ten years, and be like "Okay, now I'm done. I've read everything." Move on to making beer.

[Kristopher]

That's a brilliant idea, Alex. One of my top-ten favorite books is "The Walking Drum" by Louis L'amour, set in the early middle ages and at one point in the book, the main character, Kerbouchard works as a copyist, copying books and making his own copies of ones he really enjoys. I do wish I'd lived back then. Of course, I want to live in the romanticized version of the middle ages, the one where you're *not* going to get the plague, you're *not* going to be surrounded by people who've never bathed, etc, etc. Sigh...maybe another life. I just noticed that you're in Jamaica Plain. I'm up in Manchester, north of Beverly...we're practically neighbors.

Kristopher

[Sasha]

Ha! Manchester! I went to high school in Beverly. You know, like Manchester for poor people.

Yeah, I don't want to live in the real middle ages. If I wanted plague and unbathed, illiterate people, I'd move to Lynn.

[Kristopher]

Hehehe…there are a few people up here who aren't fabulously wealthy. My fiancée and I always say that we're not rich enough to call it "Manchester by-the-sea."

[Sasha]

I remember when Manchester voted to change their name to Manchester-by-the-sea. We had plans to egg some houses, but we ended up listening to Cure albums and writing crap poetry.

[Kristopher]

The Cure and bad poetry do seem to go hand-in-hand…

[Timothy]

OI! Alex,
I live near Lynn!! King's Lynn that is, in the UK!! Some parts of the town are a bit grubby I'll grant you, and there must always be the chance of the odd rat getting off one of the Russian frieghters in the docks bringing something 'orrid with it.
It's the illiterate bit that gets me!! I've just had my third book published, a guide to growing your own fruit and veg, I normally write thrillers, check out 'The Day the Ravens Died'. The end result was probably worse than the great plague of London.
Why can't you pick your own town names, you must know Manchester, the 'real' one, and there is a Beverly in Yorkshire.Very confusing!!
all the best Paul Rix [oldgeezer:]

[Sasha]

We got off track for a while there, but I'm on to Don Quixote (1605 - 1615) and Madeleine is reading Annana (Egypt, um, a wicked long time ago). Don Quixote is terrific but it gets into a bit of a lull toward the end of the first book (of two).

After Don Quixote, and a few sidetracks thanks to group reads here, I hope to backtrack to Faerie Queene (1590) and then move on to the biggest dog on my list: Paradise Lost (1670). I hear it's difficult, and I hear it's worth it.