Ribh's D'Coopage

[rjohns39]

Good morning Bob.

Good morning Bob, have a great day

 

[BY Bob]

Good morning Bob, have a great day

Thanks Bob. You as well.

 

[Ribh]

I can totally see it and it is making me feel better about the play. Maybe that was Shakespeare's intent all along.

There's a whole section of academia who believe it is a comedy. I haven't read up but I've never been able to take it seriously. It is just so teen melodrama ~ & who but a teen would think a fake death was a good idea? Or so over~react?

 

[Ribh]

I have another friend that will read the ending of a book before she buys it. I never understood that. The worst ending to any novel I ever read was the ending to The Natural. I was so let down. The movie fixed that. If I had read the ending first I would have never read the book.

I guess I just feel that the author put a lot of effort into creating their work and I owe them the respect of reading it as they intended. Usually there is something enjoyable in a book even if it isn't a great one.

That's a Malamud I haven't read.

 

[Ribh]

I just got my new glasses yesterday. My eyes were so bad I could no longer read with my glasses on despite the bifocal. It took months in the days of Covid for them to be made.

I'm going to start reading something for pleasure again. I just need to choose something.

I'm due to have my eyes tested again. I've been putting it off even though I'm having trouble with my eyes because my script is already really strong.

 

[Ribh]

I just got my new glasses yesterday. My eyes were so bad I could no longer read with my glasses on despite the bifocal. It took months in the days of Covid for them to be made.

I'm going to start reading something for pleasure again. I just need to choose something.

What sort of things do you like to read, Bob? You seem to have very eclectic tastes but like Shad I really can't recommend Ulysses

 

[Ribh]

I love it,

Somehow I feel responsible for all this book talk. I owe you something chicken related.

How about a lost photo, that I recently found, of the greatest hen ever with Patsy and Lilly enjoying some baked corn on a January day. Will that make up for it?
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That is lovely, Bob! Wouldn't worry about the book talk. I am always happy to talk books.

 

[Grammy60]

Good morning

 

[Ribh]

Good morning

Hey, Sue. Hope you are doing well.

 

[MaryJanet]

Could I get a further description of what the "magical realism genre" is? I'm having trouble translating that.

I remember books in this genre as being situated in a realistic setting, but the ways in which the characters view the wotld is rational through a prism of dreamlike. For example they might see something physical in the heat or interpret shoulder blades as wing buds, but mostly they see the world and act within it rationally. There's a charming and warmhearted naivety under the surface - the characters' inner children perhaps or the manifestations of children that were never conceived.