Bought Today in the Book Store

[harmony_bites]

Sarah Lyall’s The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British, written by an American ex-pat who married a Brit and has lived in England fifteen years now. Here’s an excerpt from the first pages:

Comments

[angelmischa]

When was that published? Sounds like a rip-off of Kate Fox and Watching The English to me. LOL

[harmony_bites]

I found it just today in the "New Arrivals" section right in the front when I entered Barnes and Noble so I'm thinking brand new (I recall btw in skimming it that Kate Fox and Watching the English is mentioned.)

[renitaleandra]

Snerk. I might have to look that one up in my local bookstore.

[harmony_bites]

It's engagingly written and a lot of fun--I recommend it.

[lifeasanamazon]

#8 is about right, dear, but the rest is more or less a travesty. I don't think she knows us as well as she thinks she does.

I say toilet instead of loo or lavatory. And we do use deodorant, amazingly.

However, we do say 'sorry' a lot.

Sorry.

;)

You'd be better off with Kate Fox a million times over.

[harmony_bites]

Hee. In that case, I'll have to definitely check Kate out...

Somewhere out there, there has to be something that explains why you can seem so much the same, and yet often turn out so different...

[lifeasanamazon]

I'd definitely recommend Kate!

We are fooled by the vague similarity of our language...

;)

[angelmischa]

LOL Exactly! It sounds a bit to me like a cultural translation. Kate Fox's is full of Britishly making fun of herself because she's British. An American audience perhaps prefers an American Americanly poking fun at herself? (Although I bought Kate Fox's book in a US bookstore... a few years back...)

[gypsy_morph]

Your skywing has softshell. You need to go to actions and hide it until that message disappears or it will die.

[harmony_bites]

*sniffles* I know--saw that now when I looked. I quickly hid it.

Doing this egg thing is work. LOL

[gypsy_morph]

Don't worry. A few hours should take care of it. One of my gold hatchlings was sick, but three hours later, it was fine.

It can be work, but it is fun work, imo. :)

[harmony_bites]

Actually, I've had to already hide both eggs before--Renita warned me I had soft shell, I hid the eggs, the soft shell went away. Problem of TOO many clicks, which I didn't expect--I expected the reverse.

It can be work, but it is fun work, imo. :)

Hee. I'm dying to find out how they come out. Especially the egg "surrounded by fog"