Tomaso Egan,
On September 22, 2012 I wrote a short
blog about this Sheridan Civil War book that I had read about in a Boston
Sunday Globe, Terrible Swift Sword. I am very sure that I mailed the
article to you. Maybe this is what sparked your idea for a Christmas gift
for me. I am not sure.
I knew that this would be a great book to
read, but for some reason I never moved on it. I have 66 books ready to be
ordered from my $5-$6 Connecticut bookstore. Then, during our visit to your
Wildwood Crest home in October, you told me your take on using a Kindle and
buying books. Later a visit to our travel agent’s house on the Cape further
confirmed that it was a really good idea. Janis said I could buy a Kindle for
cost at Amazon, and that the books only cost $1.00 or so. She said she has
never paid more than that. The deal was sealed and Sandy ordered two Kindles
for us for Christmas.
I am planning on taking Sheridan to Mexico
this February. You always get me the perfect book.
Thank you very much, Bird On the Head.
-Tocino
Chris got me the Lincoln Team of
Rivals book for Christmas. The Boston Globe has it as #1 in non-fiction
right now -- because of the new movie, I am sure. Chris's face dropped to my
reaction when he gave it to me. He said, "Is it not a good book?” I said, “On the contrary it is a fabulous book,
but I already own it, and devoured it one summer in the casita. I am definitely
saving it for Abel to read.”
Tomorrow I will go to Barnes & Noble and
hopefully exchange it for some Kindle books for vacation. Kindle & Bacon.
Somehow the words don't go together, do they?
Side note # 43
Today Kezia's Daedalus Books catalog came. I
needed something to read so I grabbed it. Years ago my friend Charles from New
Mexico talked me into reading his favorite book of all time, One Hundred Years
Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I read it on the playa on Isla Mujeres
and hated it. Mea culpa (my fault). Well it is FICTION. I gave it a second try,
years later on Isla also. It was just lying there for the taking in reception at
Maria del Mar "Cabanas." YCMTSU. Many, many people had
read and handled this particular book. I loved it. Well not the story as much
as the writing and the words.
Years later in a rented house in the Bahamas
one very hot night I checked out the vacation house library and found another
book by him called Living To Tell The Tale and it just blew me
away.
Today in Kezia's Daedalus I came upon yet
another by him that I have been searching for called, believe it or not, Memories Of My Melancholy Whores. But it is going to cost me
$2.95. I read somewhere that he is still alive and living in Cartagena,
Columbia.
This could be the longest thank you that I
have ever written. Did I even say thank you?
1 comment:
I couldn't agree with you more about the beauty of the writing in García Márquez' 100 Years. But we are both talking about the English translation. I have always believed Gregory Rebassa, the translator, deserves as much credit as the author here.
Interestingly enough, Spanish writers who are also skilled writers and speakers of English recognized the talents of Rebassa when 100 Years came out in English, and ended up making Rebassa's career. His queue of jobs was so immediately filled up that there was no room for García Márquez' later works.
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