Tartarin: Sounds like a great new resource for you. Hope it succeeds!
Thanks for the info, Piffka. I really do need to make it over there one of these days. If the foot ferry still sails, I may just do that. Do you know if it does?
There is always foot passenger service on car ferries. They run throughout the day, but the downtown to Vashon ferry service is commuter-based and has limited times, M-F. The schedule, as it happens, is buried in that website up there.
I was looking for a book yesterday and was unhappy to see that it was out-of-print. abe.com had 3, all costing more than I like to pay... no read-only copies. Anybody ever read this by Sivins?
Medicine, Philosophy, and Religion in Ancient China, Variorum 1995
I am pawing around through a huge stack of books trying to decide what to read for my go-to-sleep book... Tristram Shandy is one I'll be bringing upstairs tonight. I've never read it, but recall many people liked it. I nixed the Song of Scipio last night as too dark. But I've just finished (finally) Cold Comfort Farm, so 'most everything seems dark.
Good point re pedestrians on all ferries; I did know that, but haven't ever ridden the foot ferry. Anyhow, if memory serves, the Vashon ferry isn't as easy to access as the others. Though now that I think again, a friend used to walk to the foot ferry from Pioneer Square. I better do some research...
I am plowing along with Song of Scipio. (have read a lot of Iain Pears' art mysteries). I am getting more interested, but I found it droppable for the first hundred pages as I put head to pillow.
I mentioned this somewhere on a2k but not here, I don't think. I loved this one -
http://www.twbookmark.com/books/12/0316748641/
Pasquale's Nose by Michael Rips. Mr. Rips seems uniquely un-selfinvolved for a writer who writes about living as a foreigner in a land far away.
Ooh -- that looks good, Osso. The cover reminds me of a movie I've seen lately and can recommend: "Heaven" with Cate Blanchett and Giovanni Ribisi. Even if you don't feel like following the plot, the camera work and the Italian landscape are well worth the rental!!
His nose comes into discussion about 2/3 the way through the book. I loved it, I loved it, I loved it...
Well, if you really loved it!
Guess I'll have to look around for it, a funny title. Did you ever get the book I sent back to you? (Did I send it back? Sudden remorse hits, boomeranging into poor memory. I was going to....)
Yes, yes, didn't I thank you??? Oh, no, I was going to....
I dunno, I can't remember! LOL... September was such a blur and October whooshed right by.
Small mention. I saw a reprint of Randall Jarrell's choice of short stories is now available -- paperback -- and got one. It's a nice, nice book. Recommend.
I'm having another happy go-round with
The Face is Familiar, Ogden Nash
I'm reading King Suckerman by George P. Pelecanos. That's a cool author. And I am learning all the seventies slang.
I'm reading Life of Pi by Yann Martel. My sister sent it to me for my birthday in October, and I've finally picked it up now that it's not such a busy weekend. I despise high school...
I'm reading a book about Scottish fishing boats in the 20th Century. Good detail, short on plot.
Welcome, Sententia (great name!)! Hey, soon it'll be college (slightly less crummy) and then LIFE -- so fabulous that you will stare in disbelief at all those people who look back on high school, sigh, and say, "Those were the good old days"!
Well, since you asked:
I have finally just read "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" by Al Franken as well as "Thieves in High Places - They've Stolen Our Country and it's Time to Take it Back" by Jim Hightower.
Now, I am beginning "Who Killed Daniel Pearl?" by Bernard-Henri Levy.
Finished my Cornwell. . . am starting "Hunger of Memory: the Autobiography of Richard Rodriguez". . . truly a gifted essayist. . .
You mean Richard Rodriguez from Pacifica radio? If that is who you mean, he used to be on the local pbs station a lot in LA and gave a lot of thoughtful comments. He was part of a really good (to me) group of folks around at that time.
