Jane Goodall and Tolkien, and Photos from Swiss Travels!

hich books does Jane Goodall recommend?

I came across this interview in The New York Times: What Jane Goodall is reading

She answered the "who would you invite to dinner" question!

"You’re organizing a literary dinner party. Which three writers, dead or alive, do you invite?

'Shakespeare, Tolkien, Jane Austen or Charlotte Brontë. Or, oh — I want Keats, Byron, Rachel Carson, Dickens, Darwin — and, oh, I so want Churchill and, and, and — my dinner party will need a banqueting hall to fit them all in!'"

I last answered that question a year ago: "Emily Carr. Tolkien (though I'd be fainting with nervousness). And the third... Agatha Christie? Lord Rochester? Shakespeare? Chesterton? Pliny the Elder? John Buchan? Jean Little? Dostoyevsky? E Nesbit? The possibilities are endless..."

And now... All the rest of the photos from our travels this past summer:

Lac de Joux and La Brevine (the Siberia of Switzerland; a pocket valley where the temperature really drops in winter!). Also some slugs and snails... It doesn't show in the photos, but the paths were mostly mud. I had to look up "combier" in the beer ad; apparently it's a nickname for residents of the Lac de Joux area

We visited the Prangins Museum on Swiss National Day (1 August -- also Yorkshire Day!). There's a bottle of wine from 1800, books and furniture from then, too. And they also had a temporary exhibit of video games through the decades; I played Pong for the first time!

Then some ice cream...

...and then, Val de Travers -- where absinthe comes from! On the way down towards Lake Neuchatel, we passed the Toblerones, a long line of anti-tank fortifications put up during the Second World War.

Also on the way down, back home, we passed through the La Sarraz and Aubonne villages.

Who would you invite to a literary dinner?