{"id":220,"date":"2018-01-04T22:31:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T06:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evaseyler.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2019-03-13T22:32:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T05:32:09","slug":"the-monarch-of-the-glen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evaseyler.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/04\/the-monarch-of-the-glen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monarch of the Glen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2VZxm3h\"><strong><em>The Monarch of the Glen<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is absolutely **ridiculous**.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-171\" src=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3672.jpg?w=720\" sizes=\"(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3672.jpg 258w, https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3672.jpg?w=99 99w\" data-attachment-id=\"171\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/04\/the-monarch-of-the-glen\/img_3672\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3672.jpg?w=720\" data-orig-size=\"258,391\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_3672\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3672.jpg?w=720?w=198\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3672.jpg?w=720?w=258\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It came to my attention courtesy of Elizabeth Wein, who saw a stage production involving a hot shirtless dude* somersaulting onto stage in a a kilt, so I acquired a used copy and read it over the phone with my reading-books-over-the-phone bestie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/lifestyle\/culture\/theatre\/theatre-review-monarch-of-the-glen-pitlochry-festival-theatre-1-4601104\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-168 size-large alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3670.jpg?w=720&amp;h=302\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3670.jpg?w=720&amp;h=302 720w, https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3670.jpg?w=150&amp;h=63 150w, https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3670.jpg?w=300&amp;h=126 300w, https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3670.jpg?w=768&amp;h=322 768w, https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3670.jpg?w=1024&amp;h=429 1024w, https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3670.jpg 1063w\" data-attachment-id=\"168\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/04\/the-monarch-of-the-glen\/img_3670\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3670.jpg?w=720&amp;h=302\" data-orig-size=\"1063,445\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_3670\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3670.jpg?w=720&amp;h=302?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3670.jpg?w=720&amp;h=302?w=720\" \/><\/a>(click on the pic to go to the full article)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I laughed many times at this farce of a book while simultaneously wanting to chuck it out the window. (Basically the same feelings I have about the majority of 1930s screwball comedies.) MacKenzie has a way with descriptors that is wonderful. Sometimes I found the sentence structure confusing. These are a few of the lines I loved best.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-169\" src=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3664-1.jpg?w=720&amp;h=380\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3664-1.jpg?w=720&amp;h=380 720w, https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3664-1.jpg?w=1440&amp;h=760 1440w, https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3664-1.jpg?w=150&amp;h=79 150w, https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3664-1.jpg?w=300&amp;h=158 300w, https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3664-1.jpg?w=768&amp;h=405 768w, https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3664-1.jpg?w=1024&amp;h=540 1024w\" data-attachment-id=\"169\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/04\/the-monarch-of-the-glen\/img_3664-1\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3664-1.jpg?w=720&amp;h=380\" data-orig-size=\"1800,950\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_3664-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3664-1.jpg?w=720&amp;h=380?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3664-1.jpg?w=720&amp;h=380?w=720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(okay, I admit it, I just liked \u201cedible fungus club\u201d and may have spontaneously burst into singing FORTY-TWO POUNDS OF EDIBLE FUNGUS whilst reading)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m not English,\u201d said the red and yellow kilt hotly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(The entire first scene where the two Scottish Nationalists spend a lot of time bickering about tartans is rather priceless, but I am going to make you read the book yourself if you want to giggle over it too.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Good English milk gone sour, that\u2019s what Americans are.<\/p>\n<p>Massive figures in kilts and vests whose muscles stood out like bumps in the mattresses of remote Highland inns were tossing the caber and throwing the hammer.<\/p>\n<p>In the fashionably unemotional voice of a barrister reading a love-letter in a breach of promise suit Kilwhillie read.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(THIS DID NOT MAKE ME THINK OF <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Chc2z2\"><strong><em>THE PEARL THIEF<\/em><\/strong><\/a> **AT ALL**.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Seventeen hikers and twelve hikeresses were expected to join the party.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re not going to marry my kilt. You\u2019re going to marry what\u2019s inside the kilt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>____<\/p>\n<p>*James Rottger, @JamesRottger on Twitter. Behold the dishiness:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-170\" src=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3671.jpg?w=236&amp;h=300\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3671.jpg?w=236&amp;h=300 236w, https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3671.jpg?w=472&amp;h=600 472w, https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3671.jpg?w=118&amp;h=150 118w\" data-attachment-id=\"170\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/04\/the-monarch-of-the-glen\/img_3671\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3671.jpg?w=236&amp;h=300\" data-orig-size=\"1201,1524\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_3671\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3671.jpg?w=236&amp;h=300?w=236\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/evareadsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_3671.jpg?w=236&amp;h=300?w=720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>-Eva<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monarch of the Glen is absolutely **ridiculous**. It came to my attention courtesy of Elizabeth Wein, who saw a stage production involving a hot shirtless dude* somersaulting onto stage in a a kilt, so I acquired a used copy and read it over the phone with my reading-books-over-the-phone bestie. (click on the pic to go to the full article) Anyway, I laughed many times at this farce of a book while simultaneously wanting to chuck it out the window. (Basically the same feelings I have about the majority of 1930s screwball comedies.) MacKenzie has a way with descriptors that is wonderful. Sometimes I found the sentence structure confusing. These are a few of the lines I loved best. (okay, I admit it, I just liked \u201cedible fungus club\u201d and may have spontaneously burst into singing FORTY-TWO POUNDS OF EDIBLE FUNGUS whilst reading) \u201cI\u2019m not English,\u201d said the red and yellow kilt hotly. (The entire first scene where the two Scottish Nationalists spend a lot of time bickering about tartans is rather priceless, but I am going to make you read the book yourself if you want to giggle over it too.) Good English milk gone sour, that\u2019s what Americans are. Massive figures in kilts and vests whose muscles stood out like bumps in the mattresses of remote Highland inns were tossing the caber and throwing the hammer. In the fashionably unemotional voice of a barrister reading a love-letter in a breach of promise suit Kilwhillie read. (THIS DID NOT MAKE ME THINK OF THE PEARL THIEF **AT ALL**.) Seventeen hikers and twelve hikeresses were expected to join the party. You\u2019re not going to marry my kilt. You\u2019re going to marry what\u2019s inside the kilt. ____ *James Rottger, @JamesRottger on Twitter. 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It came to my attention courtesy of Elizabeth Wein, who saw a stage production involving a hot shirtless dude* somersaulting onto stage in a a kilt, so I acquired a used copy and read it over the phone with my reading-books-over-the-phone bestie. (click on the pic to go to the full article) Anyway, I laughed many times at this farce of a book while simultaneously wanting to chuck it out the window. (Basically the same feelings I have about the majority of 1930s screwball comedies.) MacKenzie has a way with descriptors that is wonderful. Sometimes I found the sentence structure confusing. These are a few of the lines I loved best. (okay, I admit it, I just liked \u201cedible fungus club\u201d and may have spontaneously burst into singing FORTY-TWO POUNDS OF EDIBLE FUNGUS whilst reading) \u201cI\u2019m not English,\u201d said the red and yellow kilt hotly. (The entire first scene where the two Scottish Nationalists spend a lot of time bickering about tartans is rather priceless, but I am going to make you read the book yourself if you want to giggle over it too.) Good English milk gone sour, that\u2019s what Americans are. Massive figures in kilts and vests whose muscles stood out like bumps in the mattresses of remote Highland inns were tossing the caber and throwing the hammer. In the fashionably unemotional voice of a barrister reading a love-letter in a breach of promise suit Kilwhillie read. (THIS DID NOT MAKE ME THINK OF THE PEARL THIEF **AT ALL**.) Seventeen hikers and twelve hikeresses were expected to join the party. You\u2019re not going to marry my kilt. You\u2019re going to marry what\u2019s inside the kilt. ____ *James Rottger, @JamesRottger on Twitter. 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