North to Pennsylvania

I had an interesting conversation with a young man last evening. You have to remember that we're in North Carolina.

I said I had in-laws in Pennsylvania, and he said he had family in Rhode Island. Then he said that, of course, Pennsylvania is far north of Rhode Island.

We didn't get to continue the conversation, as he was at work. I knew that Rhode Island is north of Pennsylvania, so I looked it up. Actually, it's not as far as I thought. Providence, R.I., is about 270 miles northeast of Philadelphia.

Still, I was amazed at his lack of knowledge about geography. But maybe it's NOT amazing.

EMAIL: tgilli52@gmail.com or nc3022@yahoo.com  TWITTER: EDITORatWORK

More blog entries by Tom Gillispie

• Resume for a writer and editor

• An editor's views on powerful writing

• Advice for be and would-be novelists

• Links to TG's stories online

• Favorite quotes

• What I do when I'm editing

Anecdotes by Tom Gillispie

• Good Samaritan

• The PRESS cap and my friend Mike

• Watching TV

• No luck with Billy Sims

• Wipeout at Death Valley

• Days with rainbows

• A desperate writer working in the dark

• Yer outta there!

EDITOR@WORK blog entries

• You really DO need an editor

• Reminders for would-be novelists

• What I do when I'm editing

• What I charge (it's a deal) and what I edit

• Slogging through the Internet

• J-school: More eyes on your stories

• J-school: Go out and learn

• Rookie mistakes for magazine writers

Entries from The Dog Blog

• Katie cried

• Growl and pull

• ... said the spider to ...

• The Dog Diary (2015)

• The Dog Diary (2014)

• 13-plus years with my dog Lady

• OOH! OOH! The stereophonic huskies

• What Lady and Michael Jackson had in common

Blog entries from The Auto Racing Journal

• Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt Sr.

(a book of great stories about the Intimidator)

• Then Junior Said to Jeff...

(the book of great NASCAR stories)

• My best day as a sports writer

• Jeff Gordon's milk toast to Dale Earnhardt

• Wayne Auton: A life in racing

READING BOOKS online

JANE AUSTEN'S PRIDE & PREJUDICE ON YOUTUBE

I just went looking for books to read online, and I quickly found ReadCentral.com. I wasn't looking for Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Agatha Christie, H.G. Wells, Leo Tolstoy and Mark Twain, but they were great, and they're all there. They have a bunch of poems and quotes as well.

I found Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes books here. I'm a big fan.

I also found The Wind in the Willows, the 1908 children's novel by Kenneth Grahame. It's on Gutenberg.com.

I'm just starting Lost Horizon on Gutenburg.net.au; the James Hilton book is just as I remember it, of course.

I checked out Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, and, yes, it's available online.

Here's a link to a bunch of Agatha Christie novels.

Finally, I've just started an Agatha Christie book, The Secret Adversary, on Pagebypagebooks.com. It's Christie's first Tommy and Tuppence book.

Beware, though; some "free" sites still ask you for a credit card to get started.

Enough for now. More later. I think I'll read a bit more Lost Horizon.

EMAIL: tgilli52@gmail.com  TWITTER: EDITORatWORK

MORE BLOG ENTRIES BY TOM GILLISPIE

• Resume for a writer and editor

• An editor's views on powerful writing

• Advice for be and would-be novelists

• Links to TG's stories online

• Favorite quotes

• What I do when I'm editing

ANECDOTES BY TOM GILLISPIE

• Wipeout at Death Valley

• Days with rainbows

• A desperate writer working in the dark

• Yer OUTTA there!

EDITOR@WORK BLOG ENTRIES

• You really DO need an editor

• Reminders for would-be novelists

• What I do when I'm editing

• What I charge (it's a deal) and what I edit

• Slogging through the Internet

• J-school: More eyes on your stories

• J-school: Go out and learn

• Rookie mistakes for magazine writers

ENTRIES FROM THE DOG BLOG

• Katie cried

• Growl and pull

• 13-plus years with my dog Lady

• ... said the spider to ...

• The Dog Diary (2014)

• YIP! YIP! The stereo-sound huskies

• What Lady and Michael Jackson had in common

BLOG ENTRIES FROM THE AUTO RACING JOURNAL

• Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt Sr.

(a book of great stories about the Intimidator)

• Then Junior Said to Jeff...

(the book of great NASCAR stories)

• My best day as a sports writer

• Jeff Gordon's milk toast to Dale Earnhardt

• Wayne Auton: A life in racing