@ayjay One of things that struck me when I first read Gilgamesh years ago was that all the tropes of the modern buddy movie are there. Two people (one flawed) who initially hate each other develop grudging resprect and have to team up against a ‘baddie’ with one paying a high self-sacrificial price.
@ayjay I read that with interest because I have the Andrew George (thoughts?) translation of Gilgamesh sitting in my reading queue. I went to order the Simon Armitage but it’s not out in the UK until October this year!
@junethomas It caught my eye because I was curious to see if the shop was still in business.
Some years ago there was a basement flat just off St Stephen’s Street that had this in the window. flic.kr/p/5JjKpB
@birming I’ve wondered that too. It seems more common in all ages but I don’t know whether I just missed it before.
@JoeHoffman I’m delighted to learn that. Have a great weekend.
@JoeHoffman It’s from a book called ‘The Elements of Baking by Katarina Cermelj. Also where the coffee mascarpone Swiss roll from a couple of weeks ago was from.
See posts passim
@junethomas Following you back now.
That was taken in Stockbridge through the door of the old gas lamp shop in St Stephen Street.
Doesn’t every town have shops selling gas lamps?! 😂
@birming I found it a film that I kept thinking about after it finished. Reminded me of some Terrence Mallick films.
@manton sent a reply. The problem seems to be that there are two books that cannot be removed from my list
@manton Yes. I have a couple of recent books appearing in both shelves.
@manton is there a problem with Epilogue not removing books from ‘Currently reading’ when they are marked as finished?
@jeremycherfas yes my wife was surprised by how difficult it is sending cards from Palermo. Then none of them arrived!
@manton Is the micro.blog / Epilogue search for new books ‘underperforming’ at the moment? I’m having problems searching for and adding new books.