Mary B. “: an Untold Story of Pride & Prejudice” by Katherine J. Chen.
I kind of liked it; admittedly I don’t read much Jane Austen fiction, so I don’t know how it stacks up. It wasn’t a great book; I wish Mary had been a more consistently drawn character, and that her nemeses were a little less blatantly mean to the point of silliness. But I did want to keep reading to see what would happen, and I did end up liking her.
X is all into this “crème di violette”…
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Kevin Simler
I really didn’t learn anything. We are primates who seek to elevate our status. Almost anything we do can be viewed in this light, if you squint hard enough. This really didn’t add to my life any “a-ha” moments, or “gotta tell someone this quote” moments, or “can’t wait to read what’s next moments” – nothing I really look for in a non-fiction book. It also can’t help but be a downer that the author actually comes out and says he only wrote the thing as a vanity project, i.e. to elevate his status. It kind of shows.
Here’s a shot with 2/7 shorn. 5/7 were completed by the end of the afternoon.
Next week: The Boys…
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
A man living in Berlin has just retired from academic life and has been widowed in recent years. Finding himself with a lot of time on his hands, and noticing a protest of African refugees taking place in his city’s square, he finds himself curious to learn the stories of these men. One by one, he asks them to simply tell him their stories, and they do. Naturally, the more he learns, the more he becomes involved in their lives. We too become wrapped up in their stories, and ultimately his.
There’s a tiny dot in the road, way up where it starts to turn to the left in the distance. That’s a fox. He had been in our driveway. I accidentally scared him away by starting to yell “Get outa here, cat!”
Welcome to our meat shop, where we are currently butchering cuts of meat for Beouf Bourgignon, and also butchering the French language!
Making this out of, of all things, a WW recipe. After eating one serving of it tonight, going to give the rest to a friend – Penny, who not only did two weeks of goat care during Sardegna, but continues to rise to the challenges of the mudroom process.
It’s where my back porch used to be.
Short & sweet. Lots of numbers talk may make you zone out. But it’s numbers that I’m glad someone out there is crunching. I found it to be extremely valuable information for deciding on charities to donate to. It seems it would also be a great resource for someone trying to decide on a career; alas, that’s a ship that has long since sailed for me. Very well researched with copious endnotes.
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