Jalopy! Never seen that word commonly used anywhere else. How is it supposed to be pronounced?
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I say it ja-LOP-ee
Juh-law-pee is how I learned it, too.
Remember Jim's stepfather Jonesy? For some reason I always thought it was John-ess-y, until my sister corrected me years later. D'oh!
I remember Jim! *sigh*. You guys are making me want to drive over to my parents' house and get them right now.
How, how, how is the Da Vinci Code science fiction???
I have a question: thoughts on Patricia Reilly Griff? Just bought a couple mom had on her wishlist (Picture of Hollis Woods and Lily's Crossing.) Want to know if I should read them NOW before I give them to her. I'll probably get to read them eventually, but.... the box of xmas books for mom & dad? Is big. And has at least 4 I want to read in the next (checks calendar) 11 days. Shit.
I adore Picture of Hollis Woods. I would definitely read it. It might take you all of 45 minutes to an hour. It's incredibly quick.
Great (heh.) I'm going to be carrying a few plane/present books, I think. Got a 2 hour layover in Dallas...
In my family, it is perfectly legit to read the books before gifting them. There's also a tradition, when Xmas is in LC, in which you read everyone else's gifts first, before you leave. Then you read yours, but don't have to send them back for the other's to read, because they read them before they wrapped them! We're slightly insane.
This is completely logical. As is giving one's husband books he will enjoy but so will you. It's NOT a Homer Simpson gift if he likes it too. Nuh Uh.