No fooling

Random quote of the day:


“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

—attributed to Mark Twain (but probably originating from Rev. C. H. Spurgeon)





Or as twainquotes.com puts it: "This quote has been attributed to Mark Twain, but it has never been verified as originating with Twain. This quote may have originated with Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92) who attributed it to an old proverb in a sermon delivered on Sunday morning, April 1, 1855. Spurgeon was a celebrated English fundamentalist Baptist preacher. His words were: 'A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.'"

(The irony of this one coming up on random for April Fool's has me rather gobsmacked.)





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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

March's Books

Finished in April:

1. Fantasy in Death by J. D. Robb
2. Meeting the Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland by Eddie Lenihan and Carolyn Eve Green

Eddie Lenihan is one of the last seanchai, the old time storytellers of Ireland, and he's been collecting stories for decades, setting onto paper the fading light of the oral tradition. This book is full of the music of Ireland, that lyrical voice of Celtic storymakers and true fairy lore: sometimes dark and threatening, sometimes funny, always walking the line between the mystical and the hardtack reality of "back in them times." I'd recommend it to anyone who loves a good story and the testimony of real people about a forgotten way of living. I've loved reading it. For excerpts,



3. A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vols. I-VI, by Edward Gibbon
5. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, vols. I-XI, by Sir James George Frazer
6. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Yale edition
7. Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
8. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
9. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
10. Ulysses by James Joyce


Begun in April:

1. Fantasy in Death by J. D. Robb - new
2. A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole - TBR
3. The Lost by J. D. Robb, Patricia Gaffney, Mary Blayney, and Ruth Ryan Langan - TBR
4. Unquiet Dreams by Mark del Franco - TBR
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vols. I-VI, by Edward Gibbon - TBR
6. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, vols. I-XI, by Sir James George Frazer - TBR
7. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Yale edition - TBR
8. Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson - TBR
9. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - TBR
10. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust - TBR
11. Ulysses by James Joyce - TBR


Continued Reading This Month:

1. Drood by Dan Simmons
2. Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
3. Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung
4. The Middle Kingdom: The Faerie World of Ireland by Dermot (Diarmuid) MacManus
5. Yesterday’s Sky by Steven Forrest