#fotofriday. Wishing everyone a great weekend. Got about a hundred pages to go on Windup Girl. Cautiously optimistic that I can finish in a couple days
I was in San Antonio this week and had to at least go see the Alamo. Surprisingly they wouldn‘t tell me where the basement is. 😄
Hock Seng makes himself smile in return, thinking that she does not know how little anyone cares to separate the wheat from the chaff, when all anyone wants to do is burn a field
#firstsentence. When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow
And as a bonus cause it sums up us all...Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing
Goes without saying this is a brilliant novel, plus audio is read by Sissy Spacek
#firstsentence No! I don‘t want the mangosteen
New thing I‘m starting. Just posting the first sentence when I start a new book. Maybe it will catch on, or maybe everyone will hate it. 🙃
Happy #fotofriday! Took this on the way back from a quick walk the other day.
Hope you all have a great weekend
Happy #fotofriday. This image was taken at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota. Some may say it‘s a little bit creepy. Thoughts? (The image is a little cropped, the full image is in my LT 75 challenge group thread)
That‘s why we‘re here Laura. White people are going to settle all this country, and we get the best land because we get here first and take our pick - Laura Ingalls : Little House on the Prairie
A prairie on the Osage lands in Kansas. Pa Ingalls was a squatter that helped force the Osage into Oklahoma.
The great thing about scrutinizing bureaucracy when you‘re a journalist, you see, is that the first people to break the laws of bureaucracy are always the bureaucrats themselves- p302
Truer words were never spoken
Happy #fotofriday folks. A better copy of this image can be seen on my LT thread in the 75 book challenge group
Still reading Ove. Hope you all have a great weekend
I know I‘m late to the game with this, but better late than never...
Her laughter catches him off guard. As if it‘s carbonated and someone has poured it too fast and it‘s bubbling over in all directions. It doesn‘t fit at all with the grey cement and right-angled garden paving stones. It‘s an untidy, mischievous laugh that refuses to go along with rules and prescriptions.
so-soComing from a broken home in Chicago, Diamond wanted to write a biography of John Hughes. He wasn‘t successful. What he did write, however was a compelling memoir of the attempt.
so-soA story that explores the aftermath of an EMP burst over the US. Told from the perspective of a former military officer, now college professor in a small rural North Carolina town. Doesn‘t pull any punches, very believable. Still getting used to the rankings here. Probably somewhere in between Pick and So-So
pickA quiet but powerful story of longing and desire, with a dash of Murakami narrative twists. I‘m not worthy to figure out the underlying metaphors. More eventually on LT
Happy #fotofriday Folks. This is a favorite image of mine that I took several years ago at a local aquarium.
On the reading front, still in Sputnik. Should be done this weekend.
“The more I think about it, the more I‘d like to take a rain check on the topic of me. What I‘d like to know more about is the objective reality of things outside myself. How important the world outside is to me, how I maintain a sense of equilibrium by coming to terms with it. That‘s how I‘d grasp a clearer sense of who I am.”
Happy Foto Friday. #fotofriday. Still reading BSG, should be able to finish tomorrow. For my 75 group friends, I‘ll post the larger image later today or tomorrow.
A small book haul at a used book store (Mojo Books & Music), in Tampa
1. LibraryThing and the 75 book challenge is my primary home. I also use a paper journal to record my yearly reads. I do post my reads to GR just as a backup
2. No preference, but the occasional forays into 2nd person has been interesting
3. I‘m new to Litsy so it really won‘t affect me. Come on over to LT.
4. Again, I‘m new so I don‘t have any one to tag 🙃
#trivialthursday
#vacationreading. “Oily flies fed on curry-colored cowpats. New leaves oozed from twigs in the hedges. Seeds thicken the air, like sweet gravy. “ Love the imaged this invokes.
On LT I do a #Fotofriday post on my thread in the 75 book challenge group. I thought I would start sharing it here as well. Book-wise I‘m going to start the Mitchell after I finish Underground Airline
I left Saint Anselm‘s and walked back to the car, not even checking for my new friends on the porch. All around me, all inside me, was a feeling of unease, of incipience. A murky sky, holding the possibility but not the promise of rain.
