Turkey Day is here tomorrow. It doesn’t seem possible because a) it just can’t be the end of November, can it? and b) it’s France and they don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, so there aren’t any markings of the holiday anywhere. And of course no day after sales.
I wish the half dozen who read this a very Happy Thanksgiving though.
We went to the library today and I got some more books. I updated my little homepage with this (Editors Note: I used to keep a list of the books I was reading in the sidebar). I never did finish the Kesey book. It was very large and difficult to get into and my check-out time was running out so I just gave up. This is something I often do with books. Usually, it is a mood thing. Where I just can’t get in the mood for that particular book and put it aside, hoping I’ll come back to it.
I’ve once again picked up a Chandler. I’m quickly going through all the classic detective books. I looked for some Agathe Christie, but I could not find anything. The Shipping News is a book I picked up a few years ago, read 50 pages or so, and then had to turn it back in to the library. I liked what I read and I can’t remember now why I didn’t finish it. I’m often a very slow reader and I suspect I just didn’t have time to get through it with library deadlines. I know I know you get three weeks on the first check out and then you can recheck, but still…I often get distracted by other books, tv, movies, and life.
I’ve read good things about The Corrections, and frankly, my choices of books that both interest me and seem like something I would actually sit down and read is getting much smaller at the language library I’ve been going to. Luckily I have another big library at the university and a big public library to still go to.
I’m working on another list like the Cover Songs list just posted. This time it is the greatest film actors. Start making your own lists now.
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Happy Thanksgiving to you too. Which books did you check out? Also; I’ve neglected to tell you this but I can sympathize with your situation because we (my family) were missionaries in Europe for five years. Pretty much anytime we wanted a book we didn’t have we’d have to either borrow it from a friend’s well stocked library or see if someone could send it over from the US. I don’t recall ever visiting a library there though.
I updated my front page with my book choices. Look down and to the right. Cool deal about your family. How old were you at the time? What part of Europe were you in? My wife’s parent’s were missionaries in Sierra Leon, Africa for several years. She was born there and spent maybe a year there before they left for Georgia. So I know lots of stories about misisonaries and their families.
I was about seven. Wow, that was long time ago.