Saturday, March 12, 2016

Breakfast Buffet of Books Was a Lot to Digest This Morning!

I began my breakfast buffet of books a bit later than usual today--at 5:10 am--starting with the often trite 70 Things to Do When You Turn 70.  This time the essay was "The Thank You Prayer" by Lewis Richmond, who may have dumbed it down for us 70-year-olds.  I understand that his How-To book was a best seller.  Anyway, I'm already grateful, and I agree with Anne Lamott that there are basically two prayers:  Please, please, please!  and Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Then I went to Let's Talk about Love and an essay by James Franco--as fascinating as the other was trite.  I really had no idea who he was, but now I must know more about him than most people do!  Besides his several university degrees and his PhD, he managed to get on General Hospital as an insane artist, and lots of projects came from that stunt!  I'm curious about how he messed up the Oscars when he was co-host in 2008.

But before going to YouTube to check it all out, I read more of Camus' Algerian Chronicles, which are describing the starvation and near-slavery (when they could find work at all) of the Kabylie in 1939.  I had no idea!

Then I read in French for just a few minutes--Tonvoisin, which is harder than most French books for me to understand.    I do get the idea that "les cons de table sont des etres qui viennent d'ailleurs."  Of course it could never be me!


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