What are you reading?

It can.

Read a couple of Mark Twain books and get back to me on that....or maybe Harriet Beecher Stowe.

 

have done

 

Well, managed to slip on a talus slope and whack out my shoulder and left arm...so it is bedrest, so it's extremely light duty for three or four days....so this recent non-fiction book about spending summer on a remote island off Norway with eiderdown ducks.

 

i hope you are all better by the end of your bok kris!^^^

on the road - jack kerouac

found this on one of our daughters high school bookshelf. i'd heard of it, and seen it referenced many times, but had never read it.
i had no idea the sixties started in the forties.

 

Wow!

Think I have read on the road three, maybe four times. Last about nine (?) years ago when I was doing field work in the State of Washington. Between Kerouac and Ken Kesey they had the freaky road trip genre pretty well covered.

Would have loved to spend a couple of hours talking to either of them. Well, I did all my incredibly stupid bumming rides when I was 16/17 and lived to tell the tales.
kris

 

I'm currently on "forever hold' for The Shepherd's Life.
Placed a hold for The Place of Tides. (thanks!)

 

Tides had a dozen people ahead of me on the library hold list. Shepherd's had four. I spent the $ at local bookstore for Tides. Took about 30 or so pages to get into it...but very good so far.

My shoulder, not so good.

 

Page 239 in my edition of Place of Tides, says it all.

"Human life is full of projection...focus on...what is...not what you think about it."

kris

 

Are those ellipses in the original, or are you giving us something like the Vanna White veto?

 

It's a small fraction of about three pages near the end of the book. Those pages just seemed to ring so true.

Having said that, realize I am enduring a fair amount of pain and a few children, furry and non-furry, all without any "modern" medicinal help. But, Meyer's lemon tea does help.
kris

 

This is a tough read, and makes me think of the current admin:

 

Before reading that @bisco, go to a really nice steakhouse and throw money at their best efforts.

After reading it you may lose the chance to appreciate. I do not care if you eschew (instead of chew) sausages because they are not all that interesting in toto. But an excellent chunk of beef, well prepared - dang.

 

Dang!!!
This is a lot of red meat to take in for one day's "what are you reading?"
(Fish are FRIENDS, NOT food!)
I'm reminded of a very recent VPOTUS.......

Could not agree more completely!
As far as Sinclair?

It makes ME think of the current admin too - but ONLY because they want to abolish the ed.gov.
Upton was required reading in my primary school, and any cursory glance at his.....'work' might remind one of a New York mayoral race mashed up with a 60 Minutes piece featuring rocket motors, or military records.

Meanwhile?
HAVE the Steak!
Medium.

BE reminded that our system makes good use of FOOLS and LIARS.
......meaning the steak will almost certainly be yummy, safe, and nutritious!

 

only because of people like sinclair and government agencies