"Knowledge speaks, but Wisdon listens!" Jimi Hendrix
In addition to our daily crossword puzzles, the Tuesday newspaper has an additional quiz. Today's "test" was to finish "famous Quotes". Although we weren't real successful, I really liked some of the quotes so am going to add them to my "quote of the blog" list. The above....Jimi Hendrix...who knew he could be so deep???
I just finished reading "Moonlight in Odessa" by Janet Skeslien Charles....and we are not talking Odessa, Texas! This is her first novel and I am looking forward to more from her. It was really good...one of those "okay, what next!!" kind of books...not a mystery, just human interest story but gave a really good aspect of life in post communist Russia/Ukraine. The author had lived there for two years and her writing certainly reads authentic! A warning...guys, no automatic weapons/ bombings/ violence...so you might not care for it as much as we gals!
The book I just finished right before this one was "The Children's Book" by A.S. Byatt. She is a new author to me and I would read her again...not a first novel. This book takes place in England at the end of the 19th century into the 20th, around the time of the first World War. Very good also... descriptive of the time period...historical fiction...and full of quirky characters...but as with many British authors, a little to wordy at times...sometimes TMI!!! I am a pretty good scanner though so can move a story right along!
My last International thought is the Netflix we watched the other night..."Invictus". A movie about South Africa and Nelson Mandela when he first became president...how he got the country to get excited together over their National Rugby team...I highly recommend it! I still do not understand rugby...seems a little odd to me. I may have to check out the procedures on the 'net sometime!
Trinity Valley Guild Meeting Friday..am going to show my "Chinese Coin" quilt. No meeting in September as our quilt show is at that time.
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