What BOOK are you reading right now?

The White Goddess by Robert Graves. It is gob-smacking.

Long a fave of mine, she was. Actually still is as I haven't changed my mind. I miss her being alive, y'know. Haven't read that one, know I will like it if I run into it.

I found it in my favourite $1 bin at BMV (Books Music Video) - I always find treasures there. Have found 2 Laurie Colwin's there in the past month.

ooooh!

Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii. It's a compendium of all the travelogue type dispatches he sent from Honolulu back to the mainland when he was working for the Sacramento (Calif.) daily paper in 1866. The collection contains the earliest writings of Twain ever published during his own lifetime. I had read some before in anthologies, but this complete dossier is really fun. (Published by the University of Hawaii Press, edited by A. Grove Day. P-back available.)

exactly what I said

I just found a copy of



1888

in the used book bin

here is the online digitized version

https://archive.org/details/marktwainslibra01kembgoog

Thnx for that, Bethie.

thanks. I am still in the 3rd chapter though.

I just ran into this piece (while looking up split mung dal recipes and running across an NYT one, thus seeing this link) -
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/dining/laurie-colwin-a-confidante-in-the-kitchen.html?_r=0

Found this on pinterest and thought of you guys.

We are only networking, hinge. Literary types do discuss the books they are reading and thus reveal something about themselves to each other. Which a CV or a Profile doesn't necessarily do.

What does you posting that sneering sarcasm reveal about you?

We know as well as anybody that we are a little affected but there are books which do have the effect you copied from somebody or other.

We also know that people are envious of us for various reasons. Especially dingo skinners with corks hanging off their greasy hats like Chips Rafferty only without the singing voice.

Aroint thee!! Thou rump fed ronyon.

Huh?

I see hinge as having a round understanding of the lot of us and not as sneering.

It was another version of the Death of Little Nell jibe osso.

and that was spendis way of calling you a witch osso. I once played Duncan and hadda know alost all the damn lines.

Oh, great. Fitting then that I've no idea what either of you are talking about.

spendi quoted Macbeth and dropped a line or two

Try reading Macbeth. It's by some Limey dude named Shakespeare.

I haven't read it since 1958. Oh well.

you know, Ive only ever heard the origin of the word Limey in regards to English an it had something to do with Limes in their drinks?

Im sure someone so identified can provide accurate etymology