Animal Farm - George Orwell

Locked On - Tom Clancy



Love locks on the Tumski bridge over the Oder River at Wroclaw, Poland.

Imperial Palace - Arnold Bennett



Lotus Mahal - the Queen's residence at Hampi

nudge nudge (nobody has read any books lately? They don't have to be from this year lol)

Jakeroo, if you're not posting images yourself, you don't really have the right to berate other people - that's just sniping, please stop.

Not sniping at all. Not berating anyone. Just trying to encourage participation. I adore all the photo threads. Please don't make your own assumptions regarding me. Thanks.

Besides, maybe as the moderator, YOU should post something in order to give them all a kick start, instead of berating me for no apparent reason : )

And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini



Mount Hasan, an inactive stratovolcano in central Anatolia, Turkey.

'The Metamorphosis' - Franz Kafka

"Fire in the Night" - Stephen McGinty


There was an iron pour event in Durham NC last November which we attended.
You can see the iron being poured in the mold, and the furnace in the background.

"My Ship is so Small" -- Ann Davison



A sailboat which was moored in Terryglass harbor when we visited in 2012.

'On Chesil Beach' - Ian McEwan

"Kitchen Confidential" - Anthony Bourdain (in memorium)

"The Teahouse of the August Moon" - Vern Sneider

(This teahouse is in the Duke Gardens, Durham, NC)

Cactus Flower - a play by Abe Burrows



Cactus flowers at the Phoenix botanical gardens.

"Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll



Here's the White Rabbit, looking a bit green around the edges. (Living sculpture from the Atlanta Botanical Gardens.)

Ooh, look at that! It wasn't until I saw the people that I realised how large that rabbit is... but why has he got the Mad Hatter's hat?

I'm not sure why he's got the Hatter's Hat. Maybe the sculptors were a touch mad themselves? (And, on second thought, maybe he's the March Hare, not the White Rabbit?)

They were all at that tea party... but the hat definitely belonged to the Mad Hatter. It was the fumes, you know, the fumes from the mercury used in the felting process, it drove a lot of hatters mad. A friend of mine at university got mercury poisoning from a faulty fume cupboard although no hats were involved. He had to spend six months living in Switzerland where the altitude and clean air forced the poisons out of his bloodstream more quickly - we said he had done it for the vacation! But he was never allowed to work with mercury again, it's nasty stuff.