What are you reading in general?
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Linna Heartbooger
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I'm reading "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck ...for the first time.
And also "The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment" by Jeremiah Burroughs, 1645, on the Kindle.
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
I read his collected works a year or so ago, and was surprised at both how good some of them are, as well as how bad some are.sgt.null wrote:The annotated HP Lovecraft
Do you feel the annotations really add anything?
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Context. Depending on the author some annotations areRigel wrote:I read his collected works a year or so ago, and was surprised at both how good some of them are, as well as how bad some are.sgt.null wrote:The annotated HP Lovecraft
Do you feel the annotations really add anything?
Necessary. TS Eliot benefits greatly. Lovecraft as well.
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Linna Heartbooger
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Hmm.
I recently enjoyed "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman.
Also read "Dreams of Joy" by Lisa See.
It had this haunting scene where a woman came back to her old family home in Shanghai after decades.
The man who greets her at the door said, "We were waiting for you."
And she's thinking "we?" All the people who assemble around the doorway... are the boarders that her family had taken in... two young women who were dancers, and are now older and part of some work crew, the former-university-student who is now a professor. And it was the family's former cook who greeted her.
Everyone is telling her, "Everyone returns to Shanghai."
Also got out some non-fic and fic and I'm afraid I'm back to my old M.O. of starting books & not finishing them.
Next non-fic will be picking my way through Galileo's "Letter to the Duchess Christina" and one thing he wrote in a dialogue format.
Hopefully.
I recently enjoyed "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman.
Also read "Dreams of Joy" by Lisa See.
It had this haunting scene where a woman came back to her old family home in Shanghai after decades.
The man who greets her at the door said, "We were waiting for you."
And she's thinking "we?" All the people who assemble around the doorway... are the boarders that her family had taken in... two young women who were dancers, and are now older and part of some work crew, the former-university-student who is now a professor. And it was the family's former cook who greeted her.
Everyone is telling her, "Everyone returns to Shanghai."
Also got out some non-fic and fic and I'm afraid I'm back to my old M.O. of starting books & not finishing them.
Next non-fic will be picking my way through Galileo's "Letter to the Duchess Christina" and one thing he wrote in a dialogue format.
Hopefully.
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I have a hard time reading the last few years. My eyes get tired and I get sleepy. lol
When I do read it's re-reading books I've already enjoyed like Harry Potter or history stuff.
When I do read it's re-reading books I've already enjoyed like Harry Potter or history stuff.
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Aww, that stinks.High Lord Tolkien wrote:I have a hard time reading the last few years. My eyes get tired and I get sleepy. lol
I have the problem that I always think I should be able to read while lying on my side...
...but inevitably, one side of the book always is uncomfortable to hold up!
How do other people do it?!?!?
Anyway, I got some random productivity books out of the library.
(always a topic I take up in earnest as New Year's approaches.)
currently doing the most reading of "The Dip," but Seth Godin.
Also reading some YA fiction:
"Bright Island" by Mabel L. Robinson
That describes me when drinkingHigh Lord Tolkien wrote:My eyes get tired and I get sleepy. lol
Anyway, I'm close to being finished with Circe, and I just grabbed Women Talking after hearing it discussed on a podcast. When I finish those I'll go back to Heinlein's I Will Fear No Evil which I'm in the middle of.
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