My TTOT Thanks list:
Number 1) Thanks for humor in fiction that invoke smiles. I re-read a classic which was almost entirely composed from dialogue. I relooked into the book because I may be going to watch that title on the big screen.
Number 2) Thanks for the help walking on the path. I picked up a few shiny pebbles along the way. This is a metaphor. I mean, a good pebble can be a better method to do something, or a shiny coin.
Number 3) Good to have a trip to town for repairing items and buying groceries in a different supermarket. We were disappointed the store only had a very small selection of edibles so we changed plan and headed for the bookstore instead. It was a small, decent haul.
Number 4) Good meeting with a person for a project.
Number 5) Thanks for the ups and downs, which make the “world” go round. Where there’s movement, there’s opportunity for a small positive change.
Number 6) One retailer offered a small discount for books. Money saved is money kept so I give thanks.
Number 7) Returned to my old neighborhood and supermarket haunt.
Number 8) We managed to partly trim a tall bushy plant outside the perimeter wall, without using a ladder. The next continuation would be using the ladder.
Number 9) We met one new supplier of product and one new supplier of general services so that’s two good contacts in the book.
Number 10) Thanks for all the bloggers and readers here. I know a few who are too busy to post TToT.
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#1: What is the name of the book that you read?
A lovely list, and hope your week is just as lovely.
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte. 🙂
I wasn’t expecting the “humour in fiction” book to be “Wuthering Heights” lol. Claustrophobic family psychodrama is how I think of it, but perhaps I need to reread it too… We live 20 minutes drive from Haworth where the Bronte sisters lived in the Rectory and the moors which inspired the book…
I imagine your house beset with piles of books everywhere – added to by this week’s “small, decent haul”…
The housekeeper Nelly Dean exaggerated sometimes. She threatened and staged her own theatrics to persuade her younger charges. Otherwise, she had no position to manipulate her wilful young mistress, and master. The other matter is how conveniently the characters drop dead like flies.
Have you visited the Haworth Bronte Parsonage Museum ? I have read a newspaper article of the tourism surrounding Haworth.
ok… I’m with Andrew on the Wuthering Heights, at least to initial reaction… but then again*
I do like the idea, i.e. a person presenting a fairly non-common perspective on a story/novel… it offers the opportunity for a change in reality a shift in perspective can do that and…and in this case a suggested shift in perspective of a commonly known element in the world
best stop now
oh yeah… new TToT linkz code will be arriving in your email, early this week!!
*Full Disclosure: the majority of my appreciation of the novel is courtesy of Pat Benatar (lol)**
** yeah, no! wait… was an excellent song!
It sounds like a good week, and I like your slant on the book. Maybe there are a few more I should re-read, see if I missed something.
Thank you Mimi!
The book was written like a masterclass on “show, not tell”. With the showing written in dialogue.
The family tree diagram showed the gist of the story. The third gen Catherine Linton marries the third gen Hareton Earnshaw. Everyone else died, save for the hired help. This type of plot will not fly in contemporary fiction.
I enjoy watching a movie after reading the book. Sounds like you had a great read.