BOOKS! - what are you reading?

[Maggot]

How bout a grape?

[BigMark]

It must be an old testament then.

[MirahM]

Spread the pages until the spine flexes, letters become words, words become sentences and sentences become alternative universes.

I will taste the words with my tongue and swallow them down.

[BigMark]

The universal language of the ages, I make fire and bring you meat.

[Duchess]

I'm reading Where The Crawdads Sing. I know the movie is available, but I'd rather read than watch.

[MirahM]

That looks interesting! I didn't see the movie.

I am reading, "In our own words" by Elizabeth Watson Perry. It is women's stories who lived on the lake here in the late 1800's and early 1900's.

[Duchess]

I finished reading it & it was very good, now I want to see the movie. What she accomplished after what she had gone through in life was incredible and if I hadn't inadvertently found out how the story ended I would have been astounded. I recommend!

Another book I liked a lot was Swan Song by Robert McCammon. I read it a couple times and I don't normally do that with books, but enough time had passed that I had forgotten a lot except for the premise.

[Duchess]

 It is women's stories who lived on the lake here in the late 1800's and early 1900's.

Are there things that you can relate to even tho so many years have passed since then?

I'm thinking that life for women back then must have been so much harder than today in regards to all the modern conveniences we have.

[BigMark]

https://visitsouthidaho.com/adventure/ritter-island/


The property was purchased in 1918 by Minnie Miller, a Salt Lake City businesswoman who wanted to make the property a demonstration farm. Miller was a big game hunter, traveler and entrepreneur who appreciated the unique setting of the island and its proximity to the springs.

She set up what was then a state-of-the-art dairy with the intent to breed the world’s finest herd of Guernsey cattle. The house on Ritter Island—known to this day as the Rock House—was built in 1920, as was the barn. The primary purpose of the farm was to produce breeding cattle rather than commercial milk production. Farm workers were able to take the cream produced on the farm home with them in the evenings.

Miller welcomed visitors the island, and many people remember her practicing judging on the Guernseys, coming to her July ice cream socials and enjoying the beauty of the farm.

The Minnie Miller Farm became known for the finest Guernseys in the world, just as Miller wished. These cattle were featured in agricultural and popular magazines around the country during the time.

The farm featured a milking parlor in the barn, which can still be visited on the

[MirahM]

Someone sent me books today for our little reading library.
These are the titles:

How to train a wild elephant
A woman's story by Annie Ernaux
The Value of your soul
Cotton
Travels of Charlie in search of America
Ann Patchet's Bel Canto
The Gurnsey and literary and potato pot pie society

[BigMark]

I got some books from the animal rescue store (and some stacking tables)