| Today is a shout out to my good blogging (and real life) buddy, Vanilla. His blog is String Too Short to Tie, and he often spins well-told tales from his rich family history. Imagine my surprise when I had an hour to kill last week, not at home, and pulled from a bookshelf a small volume, entitled String Too Short to Be Saved, by Donald Hall. He returns home to a New England farm, and finds in the attic of a relative's house a box filled with tiny scraps of string. The lid was neatly labeled "string too short to be saved." The book is a wonderful collection of essays of life in the early 20th Century on hardscrabble farms, and tales of the ofttimes strange, and always frugal people he remembers from his childhood. I highly recommend this book. I also HIGHLY recommend to Vanilla (David) that he collect his own tales into a volume. They are at least as good. Excellent reading, both. |
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5 comments:
The title of the book intrigues me. Saving the bits of string sounds like something I would do :)
How perfect! Funny how you found that book that so perfect ties (no pun intended) in with David's story-telling blog. He does have some wonderful stories, doesn't he?
Sounds like a charming read ... and I love the title ... *and* the story of the labeled boxes that inspired the book. I'll be checking out Vanilla's blog too. :)
Thank you so much, Sharkey! Last summer my sister-in-law found a copy of Hall's book while on vacation. She bought it and brought it to me. Good reading.
Vanilla does an excellent job on his blog despite the shortage of string.
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