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Spellcheck doesn't work on homophones [petal/pedal] or when the word is a real one, but context-incorrect [genus/genius], does it? That's why so many local news stories are full of wrong word mistakes - they're spelled right, but not the word that's wanted. Well, he does say he made a...

Yes, they were crocheted, made because I was riveted by the complex antique patterns and felt they were just do-able. Now - now they are cosseted in tissue, boxed from our last move. When they turn up, I'll re-block, mount and frame them, unless the blocking has held up, which would be nothing...

A truly fabulous doily. Well, two of them.

Ok, first fix the links: Fresh Air Book Waves Naked scientists I'll skip the last link since it's not that great anyway. And I just found one that appears really great. It's: Open Culture Audio Thanks for the ideas, I'll check them out for sure, even though they seem a little more...

This one about art looks interesting. Sorry about the prior links. I'll have to fix them later in a new post.

I've had my new ipod for a few weeks now and I have found Fresh Air, Book Waves, and well - oh, yeah, Naked Scientists . There are a few of these downloadable programs, but I want more. And some of them are hard to get a proper MP3 or other downloadable file format for them. So... does anyone...

Any chance of switching horses midstream? Sorry.

The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy The Master Butchers Singing Club - Louise Erdrich All the Pretty Horses The Crossing Cities of the Plain - Cormac Mccarthy Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell

Or perhaps you could finagle a little Stockholm Syndrome and he'd stay forever and ever without need to resort to the sledgehammer. Sorry, very bad taste, that.:p

We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates The Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy The Da Vinci Code - some guy I hate to rag on an author I haven't read yet, Dan Brown, but I did read an excerpt from that one when the movie came out, on their own...

Welcome hymartin. Hope you find some useful information here - reviews, online books, whatever catches your interest. Good luck to you, see you around the boards.

Hi winkread. There's a subforum called Book Search & Suggestions under the Books and Novels forum where you can post a detailed description of your mystery book and whoever can help, most likely will. Welcome.

When I read the bit about the wife scrubbing the sink and so on, it felt like a clipped foreshadowing of something she had planned rather than character development. I think that's what feels like a letdown with this fragment - that we should be reading about dismemberment or something, even...

I too thought of the old cartoon, but lacked the presence of mind to paraphrase a welcome from it. ..it's hip hip hip and away I go.

Welcome, Underdawg. Have fun here and see you around the boards.:) Unfortunately this doesn't work in any language. That's how translators earn their bread - ya can't just go word by word and have it retain any meaning. It's a beautiful dream though, you know? One interesting reading...

I first read Kurt Vonnegut as a twelve, thirteen year old back in the early seventies - around the same time as I picked up LOTR. They were formative to me as a reader and I appreciate them in that respect. I saw him in person at a reading in the early eighties in a crowded hall and he didn't...

Hi. My late grandad used to live in a town at the foot of Mt. St. Helens. Tiny little place. See ya round here.:cool:

My ickle hinfinks like to be the one to go so they can choose their own syrupy drink. Or juice depending on the child and the mood. My day is cut out for me, including a stint assisting with last minute science fair exhibits at my son's school. But for now - I'm off to pick up my first ever...

Welcome, Michelleje. See ya 'round the boards.

Aww...I'm sure you've got plenty else going. The Trapp Family Singers - Maria August von Trapp 2.5/5 No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy 4/5 Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri 3/5 Child of God - Cormac McCarthy 3.5/5 Homeland - Barbara Kingsolver 3/5 The Wave - Walter Mosely...