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Another thing I think about - how did we, as humans, start cooking our meat?

The animals just catch their prey and eat it - I wonder how we actually discovered it's better eaten after you cook it.

Maybe there was a fire in some storehouse, where meat was kept and the people realized it tasted a lot better?

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I wasn't here much today - had to catch up on Michael Redhill's historical fiction, Consolation.

We had the group discussion at the library tonight.

For those of you who don't know, Michael Redhill is a Toronto writer (even though he's presently residing in France).

And it was my youngest daughter's birthday - we cooked up some pork chops,, and dug into some cake - my diet blown for the week. Guess it's back to fruit, veggies, etc., for tomorrow.

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So now he's refusing to give over the documents Kurtz gave him.

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She seemed ready to listen without mental reservation, without suspicion, without a thought for herself. I concluded I would go and give her back her portrait and those letters myself.

Ahhhh! Are we going to have some romance here?

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The dusk was falling. I had to wait in a lofty drawing-room with three long windows from floor to ceiling that were like three luminous and bedraped columns.

I liked that description and the idea of having windows like that.

Well, I'm finished and I'm happy I persevered with the book.

Had it not been for finding that spot online where you can 'listen' and 'read' through the book, I wouldn't have bothered with it.

Here's the url where you can do that, if you feel like reading through it again this way.

just the way these men think they're the greatest thing since pop-up toasters

Do you mean we are NOT!



I think U2 said it best: A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle...

Carly wrote:

Well, I'm finished and I'm happy I persevered with the book.

Had it not been for finding that spot online where you can 'listen' and 'read' through the book, I wouldn't have bothered with it.

Here's the url where you can do that, if you feel like reading through it again this way.

This is a very good idea Carly, it would have helped me too if I'd known.

I checked the link you gave us earlier about project gutenberg, I love the way they organized with the voice reading and the page appearing on the screen.


If you find a similar link to "No Country for Old Men" please tell us.
It won't be at Gutenberg, it seems unlikely it would be anywhere for free for such a recent novel but who knows?