[sun surfer]

Ah, a lot of posts to go through, that's always good to see. I've been pretty busy this past week and probably will be until next month so sorry if I'm a little cursory but things should slow down for me more in November. From a quick read through it looks like we're circling around doing something along the line of drawing on nations' cultures for November? It sounds good.

Just a heads up, I won't be here around the 1st so the nominations thread won't be posted until either later in the day on the 1st or sometime on the 2nd. Shouldn't be a big deal as that's happened before but I wanted to let you know.

And speaking of lit club-related reading, since I'm not listening to an audiobook for the club this month (I'm reading the ebook), I started the quite lengthy Lonesome Dove. So far I'm about halfway through (about 20 hours in) and thoroughly enjoying it so thanks for the original nomination, AnotherCat. It's a little like Middlemarch in that it goes back and forth through a large range of characters in a small town, and a little like The Stand in that it follows a large group of people all moseying along towards (what I'm guessing will be) an eventual coalescing of them all together at a destination.

Because I'll be pretty busy the next week I don't think I'll finish it until into November. One thing I bet was left out of the decades old miniseries is the constant talk about penises, lol. The word penis is never said, nor is any curse word for it, but the euphemisms are abundant - carrots, sticks, poles, etc. It's almost strange how open this book is in talking about sex and genitalia, but how prim it is in its language (the only strong sexual language used so far, I think anyway, is 'whore' and 'whoring', which actually is used a lot). I don't even think the word 'sex' has beed used (I think it's always something like 'lie down with' or 'a poke').