"Honk If You Love Peace and Quiet"

"How long have you been out there""  Linda asked.
Christine and I were sitting at the dinner table in Linda's elegant city home, the food eaten, the forks and knives together on the plates, a finger of wine left in our glasses...
"We were sure you wouldn't last, you know," said Linda.  "We thought you'd be back in the city within the year."
"Maybe we'll spend our old age here,"  I said, "once the work gets too heavy.  You know, reverse the trend."
"No regrets?  You don't miss being able to drop into a jazz bar on the spur of the moment?"

~ Michael Kluckner, Wise Acres/ Free-Range Reflections on the Rural Route.  Raincoast Books, 2000.

www.bradsmithbooks.com

Author, Brad Smith, coming to The Neat L'l Bookshop on SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.

Brad Smith's Virgil Cain series led critics to compare his novels to those of Elmore Leonard's.
Don't miss the third book, Shoot the Dog.

*The author signing the second in the Virgil Cain series, Crow's Landing, at Flyers Cafe in Dunnville.

Grand River Cayuga

"YESTERDAY IS HISTORY.  TOMORROW IS MYSTERY.  TODAY IS A GIFT."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)  U.S. First Lady, humanitarian and diplomat, niece of Theodore Roosevelt, wife of Franklin Roosevelt.  Involved in a wide range of liberal causes, including civil and women's rights, she became a delegate to the United Nations after her husband's death in 1945, and, as chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights, played a major role in drafting the Declaration of Human Rights (1948)*

*Oxford Canadian Dictionary

Reconstructed Globe Theatre, London

Shakespeare's formal education ended at age 15.  He plunged into London's theater scene as an actor and writer in the late 1580s, and by 1611 he had written the most highly regarded collection of plays in history, including A Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Hamlet, Othello, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Many of our modern words and phrases can be attributed to the English Bard's pen, including "To be or not to be ~ that is the question," "Out damned spot!" "All the world's a stage," "Friends, Romans, countrymen," "Beware the ides of March," and "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."

Today in The Neat L'l Bookshop Neil Paul will share with us his attendance this summer at Othello.  Everyone welcome.  1:00 p.m. or whenever you can drop in!

Source:  Treasury of Wit & Wisdom, Reader's Digest, 2006. 

"Sing all a green willow;
Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee,
Sing willow, willow, willow:
The fresh streams ran by her, and murmur'd her
moans;
Her salt tears fell from her, and soften'd the stones;~
Sing willow, willow, willow:
Sing all a green willow must be my garland."

~ Shakespeare's Othello, 1603 (?) [41].

Reminder:  The Neat L'l Bookshop Third Thursday, 19 SEPT. 1:00 p.m.  Neil Paul reading and discussion of Othello.

From Othello ~

"Her father lov'd me; oft invited me;
Still question'd me the story of my life
From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes
That I have pass'd.
I ran it through, even from my boyish days
To the very moment that he bade me tell it;
Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
Of moving accidents by flood and field,
Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach,
Of being taken by the insoloent foe
And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence
And portance in my travel's history;
Wherein of antres vast and desarts idle,
Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven,
It was my hint to speak, such was the process..."

~ Wm Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

The Neat L'l Bookshop is pleased to host an afternoon with Neil Paul and Third Thursday friends.  Topic:  Shakespeare's Othello.  Neil attended Othello this summer.  He brings to us his experience and readings of Shakespeare.  THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1:00 p.m.  Everyone welcome.

"Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,
     That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks;
Small have continual plodders ever won,
     Save base authority from others' books.
These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights
     That give a name to every fixed star,
Have no more profit of their shuning nights
     Than those that walk and wot not what they are." 84

"Assist me some extemporal god of rime, for I am sure
I shall turn sonneter.  Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio."
[192]

"He hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book;
he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk
ink." IV.ii [25]

~ Shakespeare, Wm. (1564 - 1616) Love's Labour Lost