The more you share, the more your bowl will be plentiful.

 Which character from The Expanse are you? Apparently, I am Anderson Dawes. Ernest, practical and dependable.

You and Anderson Dawes have similar personalities because tenacity is a keyword in your life. You won't give up no matter the adversity, nor will you belittle or feel sorry for yourself. On the contrary, you will show strong resilience, break your chains, and keep moving forward.

Groove me, baby

 When you're getting on in years, like me, you realize that young people have an entire language of their own and you have no idea what they might be talking about. I wonder if it was like that in the 1960s, if the older generation was confused at the hippie speak we often used. Looking up some of the words and phrases from back then gave me this list.

 

• Ace – Cool
• Beef – Argument or disagreement.
• Bippy
• Boogie board:  short surfboard.
• Bread – Money.
• Bug out: To leave.
• Cat – A guy.
• Church key – A can opener 
• Crash: Sleep.
• Dig it: Understand
• Digs – Home.
• Far out: Awesome.
• Five finger discount: Stolen.
• Fuzz – The police.
• A gas: Having a fun time.
• Gimme some skin: To ask someone to slap or shake your hand
• Grody
• Groovy
• Hacked or hacked off – Mad.
• Heavy: A serious or intense subject.
• Hodad – A non-surfer who just hangs around the beach but is never in the water.
• Kicks: Something done for pleasure.
• Lay it on me: Tell me.
• Make tracks – To leave.
• Mop-top: Someone with a Beatle haircut.
• Old lady: Girlfriend/wife.
• Old man: Boyfriend/husband
• Outta sight
• Pad: home.
• Pedal pushers – knee high pants worn by girls.
• Pig: Police officer.
• Right on: Okay
• Slug bug: Volkswagen Beetle.
• Sock it to me: Let me have it.
• Solid: I understand.
• Split: To leave.
• Square – Not cool
• The man: Any establishment authority figure
• Threads: Clothes.
• Trippin’ – An unusual experience
• Way out

As the song & dance begins

 At the start of every year a whole new batch of material ends up in the public domain. This year we have works from 1929 including the following books: 

•     Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Lost Empire
•     William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
•     Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms
•     Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own
•     Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon
•     John Steinbeck - Cup of Gold
•     Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
•     Agatha Christie - Seven Dials Mystery
•     Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet
•     Ellery Queen - The Roman Hat Mystery
•     Ludwig Wittgenstein - Some Remarks on Logical Form
•     Sinclair Lewis - Dodsworth

Read people, read!

 The best books I read this year, in no specific order and not all published this year : 

• My beloved monster - Caleb Carr
• Memoirs of Stockholm Sven - Nathaniel Ian Miller
• The husbands - Holly Gramazio
• Sipsworth - Simon Van Booy
• Time shelter - Georgi Gospodinov
• Becoming Mrs. Lewis - Patti Callahan

Hairdos separated at birth?

 Cindy Wilson from the B52's 

and Patsy Stone from Ab Fab.

Separated at birth?

 Kitten Academy's Brumby and Spanish artist Salvador Dali. 

Celebrity bookshelves

These days, with celebrities video chatting on talk shows, we have seen many of them in front of their personal bookshelves and squinted to see what titles they've read. So Which celebrity shares your literary tastes? This is mine and while I admit I'm not sure who he is because I'm getting old, the description of books are what I read.

You'd share a bookshelf with Jonathan Van Ness!

Self-care and lifestyle, yes please! But your shelves would also be filled with grounded, gritty realism, epics, and histories of everything remotely interesting to either of you.