Couch 106 - the couch that must not be named

It is a great one. Such a soap opera.

I could never really get into Mark Twain because of the dialect. The Color Purple did me in for that reason also.
But Faulkner's sentences soothe me because the sentences are how the people I grew up around talk.

That's always been my problem with it, alas - soap opera.

Give me "Jude the Obscure" any day.

One of my New Year's resolutions is to read Faulkner, because I haven't. Recommend one to start with?

Sense and Sensibility is what I reread a lot - makes me laugh out loud every time.

Re: Faulkner - I am partial to Light in August - but a good one to start with and relatively easier to follow would be The Reivers - and it won the Pulitzer.

I actually found Wuthering Heights pretty funny in spots. Very melodramatic which actually isn't usually what I like to read either, but it was so over-the-top in spots . . .

I have book club groups going on in my classes right now, and two groups are reading Wuthering Heights and they are enjoying it (and doing a great job of writing literary criticism at this moment over it). SD, another couple groups are wading through the dialect in Huck Finn (not my favorite but they seem to like it okay). Another couple groups are tackling As I Lay Dying and also enjoying it. Several other novels going on; keeps me on my toes.

One reason I love doing novels in small book groups is that it lets those 4 or 5 students kind of wrangle their way through the literature on their own and sparks great conversations. Much more effective than the whole class all reading the same book; too easy in a large group for individuals to sit back, disappear, and disengage. The small groups keep each other accountable.

One of the teachers I used to work with was a Faulkner expert (really) and was amazing to talk to about Faulkner. He even kind of looked like him (which was a little odd). Probably the best teacher I've ever known.

Love the new couch title. Too bad There is no one alive who's seen the dark lord's couch. . .

Ha!! . . . . .

On a more serious note. I don't know if you had heard about the tornadoes that hit here in the Dallas area the day after Christmas. You get a sense of the scope of the damage when you personally know of several people who lost their homes. My husband's co-worker lost his home. One of our teachers lost his home. One of our chorus members lost her home. One of the members of a friend's church lost his home. And we really don't live on that side of the city. It cut a very wide and very long path through a highly populated residential area though. I have a friend who volunteers to help in disasters and she posted photos of some of the odd things she has seen. A picture of a top floor bedroom where the entire roof was gone but the beams were still intact with the ceiling fan still hanging -- lightbulbs completely unbroken. Another picture of the side of a house and a woman's high heel shoe that had penetrated the wall. And then there are all the posts with lost dogs that need their owners to find them. It's all very heart breaking.

Let me try this-

::fumbling with tacks and tape::

I love QI and this clip has all my fav comedians in it. One of my perfect fantasy dinner party. I love Brian Blessed still sexy in his 70s.

There has to be. There's a Nicholas Cage couch after all...

It has a jumbo snake holder.

Oh, we'm come up from Somerset,
Where the cider apples grow,
We'm come to see your Majesty,
An' how the world do go.

Theres your jumbo snake holder

Somerset is nowhere near Cornwall. Cornwall is the pointy bit on the west coast. Next you'll be posting Wurzel videos....*shakes head * I don't know. it is all west country i suppose.

Oops!

Sorry didn't mean to come over as chastising just trying to be educational.

Poor racoon
https://mtc.cdn.vine.co/r/videos_h26...MYhQNF8xy9LK3u

Good morning.. Enjoying a hot cup of coffee before I wake the kiddos!

No biology test today - we were sent home with "ice free" or whatever you English lot call that - basically that the school decides the weather is too bad to make it to school/home safely and therefore cuts the day short or gives you the day off. We'll hear this evening whether there's school tomorrow.

And something funny happened. I have a pdoc appointment this afternoon and I called the front desk to change that into a phone appointment because of the weather. The lady on the phone said "Yeah, *name pdoc* was just at the front desk, asking if Breadfish had called already to change the appointment into a phone appointment because of the weather."
Great minds think alike.

Bread fish, here they call it a snow day, said with much excitement and joy. Also known as a severe weather day. We used ours up for the flood last year. Enjoy your free day!

Living in both CA and AZ growing up, my son lamented the fact that he never got snow days. I reminded him though, the bad part about getting snow days was we had to make them up at the end of the school year, so our summer started later. He never had to do that!