Eden features prominently in the first two seasons of Netflix’s excellent series The Crown, if you’re interested.
No, it isn’t, and I don’t remember it. Remind me?
I don’t get Netflix, so I’ll have to look for it on line or wait until it comes on FX or A&E. 
One day, Lulu was walking past the fellers’ clubhouse and …
It’s the second story down. Enjoy! 
I enjoyed it. I’ve never read Little Lulu before. “I’ll have to change the sheet.” “Why?” :smack:
Just started Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse.
Or get the DVD - well worth a look: https://www.amazon.com/Crown-Season-01-Vanessa-Kirby/dp/B075569ZX6/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1515597974&sr=1-1&keywords=crown+netflix
Thanks for the Lulu link. No, I’d never seen that strip before. Good stuff.
I finished reading Volume IV of the collected “Tales and Novels” of Maria Edgeworth (although I didn’t bother re-reading “Castle Rackrent”). Specifically, I wanted to read the short novel “Ennui” which is in The Guardian’s 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read.
“AN ESSAY ON IRISH BULLS”: This is a satirical essay written in a mock-scholarly tone on the subject of humour based on self-contradiction which is supposedly unique to the Irish. She gathers a bunch of examples from other cultures and shows that it isn’t particularly restricted to the Irish, but the Irish do have a love for colourful language. It’s interesting to see some of what passed for humour 200 years ago; most of the jokes were pretty dull, but a few got a chuckle out of me.
“AN ESSAY ON THE NOBLE SCIENCE OF SELF-JUSTIFICATION”: Another essay in the same mock-scholarly tone advising women on how to win any argument with a man, extolling the virtues of crying, changing the subject, provoking violence, etc. It probably wouldn’t win any feminist awards nowadays, but it was fairly amusing.
“ENNUI”: This is the story of a dissipated young nobleman who is bored with life until he visits his estates in Ireland and meets various picturesque Irish characters. There’s a plot twist and then a happy ending. I quite enjoyed it.
“THE DUN”: A parable about a fashionable young man who refuses to pay his debts and the knock-on effects that has on a poor family. It had some interesting points, but the moralism was a little heavy-handed.
Ah I read that cough 30+ years ago in high school. I remember enjoying it, even though it wasn’t an action sort of book.
I finished Area 51 by Bob Mayers this morning. Not bad, not great but the premise was interesting and the action kept my attention. The writing was pretty amateur in places and he was aiming for more “classic” SF were the emphasis was on the tech not the characters, but it was an enjoyable potato chip read. (However as a native Utahn, I’m underwhelmed at your air force cred if you think a base 30 miles from Salt Lake City “is just outside” SLC. :dubious: )
I especially liked Willy saying “Be careful! If you step on his head, don’t give your right name!” 
Heh. Yes, that was a good line.
Which reminds me of another Little Lulu story I read a loooong time ago. It was a kind of ghost story, I think, in which Lulu and Tubby find a spooky house out in the woods and explore it. Just a little scary, as I recall. Does that ring a bell, terentii?
Unfortunately, no. I remember a lot of stories, but not that one.
There was another one that creeped me out, though. (I must have been five or six at the time.) Somehow or other (this may have been part of a story she was telling to Alvin; I don’t remember), Lulu found herself on a flying schoolbus filled with hideous monsters. She couldn’t see them because it was a dark night, but when the Moon finally shone through the clouds, a loud YOW! came from inside the bus.
:eek:
I had forgotten that line. I laughed out loud when I read it! 
OK, thanks anyway. I may not even have it right.
Midway though Denis Johnson’s The laughing monsters and honestly it’s average. The great man [RIP] cleaning out his desk, as someone put it on goodreads.
That being said, I have his posthumous collection of short stories The largesse of the sea maiden on order, comes out in the UK in a week or two, and am expecting it to slay. Not too many writers in Johnson’s league in the shorter form.
Finished Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Interesting.
Started Robert B. Parker’s Little White Lies: A Spenser Novel, by Ace Atkins.
Last week I finished Ian Leslie’s Born Liars: Why We Can’t Live without Deceit. Further proof you shouldn’t believe anything people tell you, especially in the news.
I tried two or three Spenser novels a few years ago and found them dreadful. It may have been that I picked ones from early on the 1970s, as they were horribly dated – for example, frequent non-ironic flattering descriptions of leisure suits the characters were wearing.
And it’s only $2.99. I went ahead and bought it straight up without downloading the sample- the “woman in peril - woman with a dangerous secret” type books are my guilty pleasure despite their sometimes cheesiness.
I’m a sucker for a suspense novel. I just started reading Mary Stewart novels and am captivated.
Recent reads (I think I haven’t participated for months, but I’m too lazy to fill it all in. I “read” a total of 220 books in 2017, which is insanity and doesn’t even count books I bailed on early or forgot to put into Goodreads. There was SO MUCH comfort reading going on!)
Rapture Practice: A True Story About Growing Up Gay in an Evangelical Family, by Aaron Hartzler. Enjoyable memoir about… well the title says what it’s about. It’s a quick read and I enjoyed the glimpse into some pretty hardcore evangelism that maintains a pretty tolerant tone despite the insanity.
Nine Coaches Waiting, by Mary Stewart. An orphan is hired to be a governess for a Count in a remote mountaintop estate with strange goings on. So much fun. If you like old-fashioned suspense, this is pretty damned perfect.
Sloppy Firsts, by Megan McCafferty. The first in a series from the start of the 2000s. Lots of snarky highschool angst from the POV of a snarky angsty highschooler.
Second Helpings, by Megan McCafferty. Sequel to the previous and more of the same.
The Companion, by Ann Granger. Strong historical mystery.
I am trying to read Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury. It gets great reviews. I like lyricism and imagery and whatnot. I am bored stiff. This is just not remotely interesting to me. From the blurb, it should be in my wheelhouse, but damn.
:eek: That’s what I’m reading right now! This is the first time someone’s ever posted about the book I’m reading as I’m reading it, and for it to be a book written 61 years ago is very impressive.
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