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Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon has lots of big ideas, humor, and all without dialogue. Oh, and it's pretty obscurely known.

Shiversome statistics, even if they are thinly researched.

Yikes, no fun at all, SFG. They are pesky devils, aren't they? I was in the 1967 tornado outbreak in northern Illinois as we lived for a while in the little town of Grayslake. The sky turned dark green and the air smelled like rotten eggs. Never seen anything like it since but I could probably...

Oh my, so enviable. Something to aspire to! Thanks for listing the titles.

Once until almost 2am when I had to get up at 5am.

Oh yes, I'd like that, for one. That way I can copycat some of your choices, you tastemeister you. :p :p

Citizen eco-drive analog that is old and was found cheap. Second-hand a must for taking blood pressures ;)

A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin

Novella, what are you snacking on before bed? :) .....and can you, ahem, shoot me the recipe? I sleep like a baby, hardly moving, and don't dream or don't remember them! Let's see, confessions... Abecedarian, while you were watching Hee Haw, we were glued to Lawrence Welk!

Welcome to the forum Dayspring :) . I think you're onto something with your above inquiry! Have you watched Little Miss Sunshine? Those very questions are approached spectacularly in that film. Far as Will goes, The Taming of the Shrew is my favorite comedy, and King Lear or Othello my...

Welcome, Oana :) Lovely to see you here

The Seed Market by Rumi Here's another good one, SFG. I gave the invocation at my nursing school graduation and insisted on this rather than a prayer. I modified it and shortened it, but the overall effect was still good. Rumi's fun! The Seed Market Can you find another market...

Story Water by Rumi A story is like water that you heat for your bath. It takes messages between the fire and your skin. It lets them meet and it cleans you! Very few can sit down in the middle of the fire itself like a salamander or Abraham. We need...

oh yes, the local rag.

I think spanking should go the way of the dunce cap and other less than effective methods of instilling discipline in young people. It just doesn't work and seems to do more to reinforce a negative behavior. As SFG mentioned, consistency is the key. I was spanked only a few times and don't spank...

Thanks, guys. I didn't know any of that. I love the mental picture of the session keyboardist still in therapy! Can you imagine the glaze-over on his therapist's face every week? :eek:

Book club where you have to buy selections, no way. Book group where we get together once a month for lunch, have discussed so many wonderful titles, and solve all the world's problems, well of course. What's not to like? I invited myself into this group about 6 years ago and they are good...

Oh, agree there SFG. I don't subscribe, but have friends who do. Their write up after Kurt Cobain's death was the best piece of music journalism I've read. What in particular about the PF piece is it that you like? Tell me so I won't have to click and get lost in distracted reading!

:D , especially that cow whisperer! I don't eat much meat at all. What do you call someone who gets most of their protein from fish, peanut butter, and dairy? Not a fishhead? A dunderhead?

Standing Barefoot by Stephen Mooney No map is ever still. The outlines shred their dark edges Into sea-foam. We are standing here at night, Barefoot, and the world that is water Is breaking at our feet Into the pages of atlases, riffling The silence, a cold Whiteness blessing the bones...