Meh Clipisode - Two-Sentence Book Report
10Hey, Meh people: What are you reading these days?
Click the link below on a mobile device and record your take. Show us the book (or e-text, or magazine, or cereal box) that’s got your attention at the moment, and tell us what we need to know about it in two sentences. Or less, if warranted. Sometimes a thumbs-down gesture and Bronx cheer says it all.
Respond by Friday at noon Pacific!
https://clpso.de/i564f4f
- 18 comments, 21 replies
- Comment
Just about any paperback, short romance novels (my mom is reading them and I asked her why on earth do so as they are all alike - she said that she likes that they “end well”):
Plot (of all of them):
They hated each other.
Then they got married and lived happily ever after.
Which book cover doesn’t matter as they are all clones.
(tagging @OldCatLady as I picked this one for you)
PS I read two of them since mom was reading them. That was enough for a life time.
Had to look up a Bronx cheer. Never heard a raspberry called that.
Does reading subtitles on a TV screen count?
I’m reading my own obituary, I think it was published prematurely.
2 sentence summary: OnionSoup was a real jerk and always did everything half heartedly.
Obit: @OnionSoup is now cold. Sometimes he could be a real dip, but when he was hot he was pretty powerful. A real cut up, he could make you cry. Unlike his rich French relative, he didn’t have a lot of bread, but he wasn’t a real winer either. Following the service, there will be a reception in California.
@aetris @OnionSoup I heard he was kind of a crusty old man
@moonhat - He had many layers, but underneath @OnionSoup had a lot of appeal.
@aetris @OnionSoup even if he can be pretty cheesy.
Hemph - I’m actually just reading a couple bed-time books at the moment, have to start a favorite of my father’s but not feeling the inspiration. I may do the mobile check-in thing once I start that - Bodyguard of Lies by Anthony Cave Brown.
Because the female of the species likes to be read a fairy tale before bedtime, we’re currently going through Russian Fairy Tales by Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasye, a 19th-century Russian folklorist, illustrated by renowned Russian illustrator and stage designer Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin whose work I love as mentioned before. The stories are pretty standard folktales of youngest sons whose apparent bad luck turns good once they finally START FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS and beautiful girls whose good nature wins them the support of powerful patrons despite the spite of their wicked stepsisters.
As a chaser I’m desultorily re-reading stories from Manly Wade Wellman’s Selected Stories; currently picking through Fearful Rock and Other Precarious Locales. If you’re familiar with Wellman, goodness and true faith always win out over evil, often with a little light romance on the side. These stories have an unusual amount of skin for Wellman, and include Judge Pursiuvant and his sword-cane of St Dunstan, which I have to think was the model for Abraham Setrakian’s weapon of choice in The Strain (not that I’m changing the subject from books or anything!)
Oh, covers! I forgot:
REMEMBER:
This is NOT a judgement free zone, at least when it comes to books.
@PlacidPenguin Umm… and whose judgement rules supreme?
@Kidsandliz
Trick question?
@rtjhnstn Now that is funny!!!
@rtjhnstn Strangely intriguing… What’s it rated?
I tried to submit one but I think I royally screwed it up. I wonder if whoever receives those will let me know.
I don’t see one from a “@moonhat”, but wouldn’t know if you submitted under a different name.
@matthew oh I remember that I saw it showed my whole name, first and last (long and hyphenated), at the top of the screen?
@moonhat after you click the button to accept what you recorded, there’s a spot to put in your name while it uploads.
@moonhat If your magazine subscriptions are addressed to your cat, your submission went through (AND I KNOW YOUR NAME).
@matthew i guess I was confused and thought it required a real name. I’m a nimrod.
Does reading the Meh forum count?
@tinamarie1974 - Only if you can sum it up in two sentences
@tinamarie1974
meh is mediocre
mediocre is meh
@Cerridwyn what you said
this topic warms my librarian heart. #notacop
99% of product manuals for things sold by meh:
Pages of warnings and legalese, followed by terse incomprehensible gibberish and/or drawings. Could I make a living rewriting these manuals, or would the migraines kill me first?
@ciabelle Maybe, but definitely take the fun outta my day reading those manuals.
Pickle Pizza and No Way. Reading them to preschoolers. No way because one kid’s reflexive answer to anything is “No Way” and the other because that kid is addicted to pickles and likes pickle juice popsicles (good thing he does not not know about sonic’s pickle slushy) which he does not get many of because they are so salty.
No Way
Kid says “No way” to every request, even things she wants. In the end relents and says “Yes way”.
Pickle Pizza
Kid makes pickle pizza for granddad for father’s day because granddad loves pickles. Sisters hate it so now kid has to find new gift for grandpa. Nothing works out so he tells grandpa about the pizza and grandpa heats it up and loves it.
Kid now wants pickle pizza. Planning to cut up pickles and put them on regular pizza as book does not include a recipe. LOL
Both books are a big hit for different reasons.
I’m sure my phone takes videos, but I’ve never tried.
Gonna leave my report here, else I’ll feel left out. Feel free to ignore it.
Audio book is short - less than 2 hrs.
It will NOT make you feel better about our situation.
Phoebe Atwood Taylor’s Leonidas Witherall mysteries. Great characters, convoluted plots, very funny. Set in the 1930’s. I love these stories.
Just finished reading to my younger son, my favorite book of all time:
A psychic bunny convinces others to bug out of their warren just before it gets paved over. Adventure, bloody battles, mythology - Homer’s got NOTHING on this epic.
![Finding Gobi][1]
Posted a cliposide already but I am sick so my voice is terrible and you might not understand what I’m saying on it.
True story about a dog (later named Gobi) that showed up and ran with ultra marathon runner Dion Leonard in China Gobi desert. Dion has to leave the country, arranges for dog to be cared for until he can get Gobi out of the country but Gobi disappears and Dion returns to search and find Gobi.
[1]:
@AttyVette oh my gosh, does he find Gobi? Wait, don’t tell me. No, tell me.
@moonhat yes he did —he put a reward out for the dog and got her back.Gobi ran 80 miles in China desert with Dion and so Dion decided to keep her and take him home with him when he could get her out of the country.
btw, what’s with the header image? Ugh!