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It's another beautiful day in the Pacific northwest. I live near the coast. Sure, it rains alot in the winter, but there is nothing better than the summer weather. I really love it here. I've been in the area about two years now, and I think it's my favorite of the many places I've lived during my recently nomadic existence. Which probably means it's about time for us to move again. ::sigh:: Hope not.
I recently finished my book club's latest selection, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, first in a series by Alexander McCall Smith. Most enjoyable. Funny, poignant, and very perceptive about human behavior. Plus, I learned a little bit about Botswana and African culture.
The prose is deceptively simple, but very effective. For example, here, the heroine, Precious Ramotswe talks about her country: "To live with this great dry interior, brown and hard, was the lot of the Botswana, and it was this that made them cautious, and careful in their husbandry. If you went there, out into the Kalahari, you might hear lions by night. For the lions were there still, on these wide landscapes, and they made their presence known in the darkness, in coughing grunts and growls. She had been there once as a young woman, when she had gone with her friend to visit a remote cattle post. It was as far into the Kalahari as cattle could go, and she had felt the utter loneliness of a place without people. This was Botswana distilled; the essence of her country."
Lovely stuff.
In other news, my take on the current fandom kerfuffle: Angel pretty. Spike pretty. Wes pretty. Gunn pretty. Lorne...funny, can sing, and is snappy dresser.
Fred lucky. :-)
I recently finished my book club's latest selection, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, first in a series by Alexander McCall Smith. Most enjoyable. Funny, poignant, and very perceptive about human behavior. Plus, I learned a little bit about Botswana and African culture.
The prose is deceptively simple, but very effective. For example, here, the heroine, Precious Ramotswe talks about her country: "To live with this great dry interior, brown and hard, was the lot of the Botswana, and it was this that made them cautious, and careful in their husbandry. If you went there, out into the Kalahari, you might hear lions by night. For the lions were there still, on these wide landscapes, and they made their presence known in the darkness, in coughing grunts and growls. She had been there once as a young woman, when she had gone with her friend to visit a remote cattle post. It was as far into the Kalahari as cattle could go, and she had felt the utter loneliness of a place without people. This was Botswana distilled; the essence of her country."
Lovely stuff.
In other news, my take on the current fandom kerfuffle: Angel pretty. Spike pretty. Wes pretty. Gunn pretty. Lorne...funny, can sing, and is snappy dresser.
Fred lucky. :-)