Busy Nights
Posted: Friday, 26 January 2007 |
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Awwww...I thought this was going to be a sort of Arabian Nights blog with Nic as Sheherezade. *sigh* The days are definitely getting longer. (And Ming will be patrolling Coll with his digicam.......)
Flying Cat from doing the pixellation polka
You have a book club? Can I go to it when I'm over on holiday. You could post the suggested reading list here. I can recomment 'A short history of tractors in Ukrainian'. Currently stuck waiting for a very delayed flight at GLA with only a John Grisham to keep me company.
Buzz from Glasgow
On Fetlar (population 60ish) we have 6 children under the age of 16. I don't think we have many more people under 30. Looks like there will be no mindless violence here then for a while.
Muness from Fetlar
Being stuck at slightly grubby not-at-all-enthralling GLA with only a John Grisham is as close to mental torture as one would wish to get.
Flying Cat from a brand new bookshelf
We've already done A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian. I liked it. I'll probably read it again, but it didn't meet with universal approval. I've already forgotten the next book, but the one after will be a Thomas Hardy, I need to find out which to make the Amazon order more efficient.
Nic from Coll
Among Muslims by Kathleen Jamie is excellent. And Findings by the same author - chust sublime! Is universl approval a prerequisite for a book club read?
Flying Cat from A literary corner
Do you read the Harry Potters?
Buzz from Glasgow
They're not really literature, more D.I.Y.
Flying Cat from A literary corner
We've never had universal approval, although East of Eden by Steinbeck was generally liked ( I found it quite put-downable and the characters weren't that real ). We've never had a book that nobody finished. You get quite defensive about your choice, even if you hadn't read it beforehand. Before East of Eden we did four or five books which weren't written in English (an Umberto Eco, Perfume and House of Spirits spring to mind) and I think they lost a lot in the translation (except the Umberto Eco, I'm still on page 62). We are doing Anita Shrieve next, but I've forgotten the title. Maybe we should set up a web cam and include bloggers, but it is important to remember the wine tasting is an integral part of book club.
Nic from Coll
If there's wine tasting I'm your man!!! Hope we don't have to consult on that too as ASDA has a much wider selection than the village store (sorry Shirley). I'm going to stop now 'cos I love talking about books and I'd be here all night!
Buzz from Glasgow
Wait a minute while I check.......oh look, 6 Anita Shreves all in a row. Someone here likes her. And look, Brookner and Desai too....that's a lot of Anitas!
Flying Cat from a brand new bookshelf
The book is Last Time they Met. You have a month to buy and read it. It will go nicely with a Shiraz.
Nic from Coll
Desai (Anita) is very good, particularly her earlier ones. Vikram Seth (Suitable Boy) is quite entertaining also. So is Anita (or is it aunt Agatha?) Christie - but a different style obviously. Let us have a plug for Tony Hillerman (three cheers for the Nuevo Mexican!!).
mjc from NM,USA
Didn't much like the last Shreve I read!
Buzz from Glasgow
The Last Time They Met is a classic Shreve. Odd but good. Didn't Shiraz do the dance of the seven veils in Arabian Nights? Or was it Salame?........my memory's not what it was.
Flying Cat from A literary corner
Open salami was the carnivores password to the cave.
Nic from Coll
Did they let the brat go in vurst? *sigh*
Flying Cat from Cheshire Grin
I can't quite believe how politically incorrect you islanders are. It's enough to make Ali Baba go in hiding.
mjc from NM,USA
We're not politically incorrect, just a bit behind the times, but at least we don't have to carry bunches of keys about. We may be ageist, sexist, full of our own importance and deny vegetables equal rights, but we also don't have burglars, graffiti and dog pooh bins. (yet).
Nic from Coll
FC: Shreve's The Last Time they Met has better be good. I am just ordering it.
mjc from NM,USA
Meeeeeeeep. I can't take all this responsibility mjc insists on heaping upon my delicat furry shoulders...what if he doesn't like the damn book? *whimper*
Flying Cat from under a duvet
Hey mjc, glad to know I'm not the only one who reads Hillerman, I really like Leaphorn but Chee leaves me a bit cold.
jas from still under mia's paw
Hillerman is very popular in the sw of the USA, and particularly in NM obviously. Earlier books the best. He's not in the best of health but he still spins a good yarn and the depiction of the locales is very well done. If you are ever this way, just holler on the web, and we'll find a way of getting together. Wife and I would be pleased to make you, and island bloggers who decide to venture this way, welcome. Yes, Chee is not exactly the brightest or warmest star in the firmament. Leaphorn is my favorite as well.
mjc from NM,USA
Nic: comment above about being politically incorrect was said tongue in cheek. Probably I should fine tune my utterances. # As to denying vegetables equal rights, I am not sure what you mean. Personally, I give vegetables equal rights on the dining table as the meat stuff.
mjc from NM,USA
Hi MJC, I promise I didn't take your comment seriously, I just wanted to get in the lack of dog pooh bins while we still don't have any. I'll try recommend Hillerman and Leaphorn to the book club. I'm still waiting for the book from Amazon, so many blog readers have ordered it they've run out, I should demand some commission.
Nic from Coll
Quite right NiconColl, no-one else takes mjc's comments seriously, so why should you... If there were no d.o.g.s there would be no need for poobins. An (almost) instant solution to the problem - cullie dogs!
Flying Cat from Cheshire Grin
Oh, poor me, and there I was thinking that only c.a.t.s (I can put dots with the best of them!!) had dedicated (home) poo bins in the islands. The ones for dogs are an aberration invented by people who have no sense of the richness/riches found in manure. Worse still, in NM, people put them in black plastic bags (which can be picked - with twisties - free of charge, by the dog poo bin) when they go walking in the National Forest (to use an example close to home) or on trails, put their dog's poop in the bag, AND leave the bag along the jogging trails in the city or those of the National Forest (the wilderness even in the desert is called Forest: don't ask me why). Rarely do the owners pick them up!! So, instead of decaying or dried up poop being recycled naturally, you have poop in plastic bags, fermenting and getting ready to explode. The latest in improvised explosive devices, and we did not even have to ask the Iranians for the blueprint. Lemme outahere.
mjc from NM,USA
Self-spreading dog-slurry! The latest big thing in manure at the desert hemerocallis club. Lots of very fine bracketing there mjc - Tws must be very proud! Our staff seldom have to excavate our tray as we need to keep our end up in Rolling Acres....
Flying Cat from GQT
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