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[eleneariel]

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So this is the secret of feeling productive: getting up early enough to make from-scratch baked goods on a morning I have to be out of the house by 7:30. And mmm, it surely does smell delicious.
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I own Heaney's Beowulf!!! It came in the mail yesterday. Now I just wish I had all of ruthette's notes; I'm tempted to ask you to send it back someday so I could copy them over, Ruth. *grin*
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These days I do most of my reading over meals or bedtime snacks. It's ironic, then, that the two books I'm reading the most are Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters and the Omnivore's Dilemma, neither of which are particularly suited to reading-over-food.
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Comments

[melyndie.livejournal.com]

Yay! I love Heaney's Beowulf! Congrats!

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

Isn't it just amazing? I was blown away when I first read it a few months ago.

[melyndie.livejournal.com]

Thankfully, his is the first I read, so I've always had that view of Beowulf. Heaney IS Beowulf. I collect different versions of B, but his is definitely the best!

[ruthette.livejournal.com]

Aieeeeee! Congratulations on your purchase of Beowulf! I've finished teaching it for the year (have moved from Medieval Age to the Elizabethan Age) so I'll send it back with your books in the next box.

Expect arrival next week. (Never did finish reading the book about the KJV, although I did enjoy the first half immensely. Have no idea why I lost momentum and interest so entirely... but I'll probably never finish it now.)

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

Aw, you didn't really have to do that, but I will really appreciate it. :) I love your teaching notes.

And I'll mail it back again with a couple other books, if you are willing -- I have two or three I believe you wanted to read. :)

(Say, ever heard of Cold Comfort Farm? For some reason it popped into my head that it might be a Ruth Book, but I really have no idea if you'd like it. It's a parody of melodramatic novels of the likes of D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy, written in the early '30s, and made me laugh exceedingly much.)

[ruthette.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I bought a used copy of These Old Shades (Heyer) so I'm no longer looking for it.

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you found it!

[princess-mia.livejournal.com]

What does your icon say?
The books would make snack/meal time interesting.;)

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

Well, it's Terry Pratchett's version of the Scots dialect, so it's kind of like, "Yo, what up, Nac Mac Feegle?" Lol. Actually, "Wha hae" comes from the Robert Burns Scottish patriotic song/poem "Scots Wha Hae." Technically I think it means "Scots Who Have."