When we met at Linda's to discuss Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson (1900 Hurricane in Galveston), we were sad that John R who is from Galveston and expert on events historical was unable to provide his incite and phenomenal breadth of knowledge.

However, we enjoyed discussing many of the details of the book, and of course with food from "India's" how could one go wrong.

We all agreed that the writer was successful in keeping us engaged, and that is was an outrage that the weather service prohibited any warnings to Galveston, for purely political reasons.

Linda selected the new book, "The Last Picture Show" as our current selection a coming of age story in a small town called Thalia by Larry McMurtry. This book is the first of a trilogy about life in Thalia.

In Greek mythology, Thalia (Θαλία / Thalía, "Abundance") was one of the three Graces or Charites with her sisters Aglaea and Euphrosyne. They were the daughters of Zeus and either the Oceanid Eurynome or Eunomia, goddess of good order and lawful conduct. Thalia was the goddess of festivity and rich banquets. The Greek word thalia is an adjective applied to banquets, meaning rich, plentiful, luxuriant and abundant.^[1]

Amazon's "The Last Picture Show" listing

My apologies for not being good about maintaining this blog, but I get so much more input from the Facebook page that I've neglected it. However, I do realize that a lot of folks don't like to use Facebook, so this one's for you!

-=Louis Hemmi=-