Re-Reading Cornwell's "Saxon Chronicles" since I just picked up teh latest one. So, The Last Kingdom.
--A
What are you reading in general?
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Linna Heartbooger
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Finished "Lila."
Currently reading:
"The Fishermen" by Chigozie Obioma (It's real dark. A Cain-and-Abel story.)
Heart of Darkness and other stories - Conrad (reading the one about "Karain")
"To Kill a Mockingbird" - Harper Lee
Dabbling in:
"The Writer's Reader" (a collection of stuff famous writers wrote)
"Writing from Within, A Guide to Creativity and Life Story Writing" - Bernard Selling
"Reading Like a Writer" - Francine Prose
"A Tale of Two Cities" - Dickens
two non-fiction books on Jonathan Edwards and the Enlightenment
Yes, social media MURDERATES my intellect!
*notes that 'murderates' is not really a word. maybe using a non-word like that is the kind of attention-getting tactic I learned from social media*
Currently reading:
"The Fishermen" by Chigozie Obioma (It's real dark. A Cain-and-Abel story.)
Heart of Darkness and other stories - Conrad (reading the one about "Karain")
"To Kill a Mockingbird" - Harper Lee
Dabbling in:
"The Writer's Reader" (a collection of stuff famous writers wrote)
"Writing from Within, A Guide to Creativity and Life Story Writing" - Bernard Selling
"Reading Like a Writer" - Francine Prose
"A Tale of Two Cities" - Dickens
two non-fiction books on Jonathan Edwards and the Enlightenment
caamora wrote:Thanks, Av! I've been in an intellectual dirty for so long that I hadn't realized I was in one. Then I read Fist's post in the Loresraat and realized that I've been dumbed down by social media. I need to come back to where the conversation is lively and interesting.
Yes, social media MURDERATES my intellect!
*notes that 'murderates' is not really a word. maybe using a non-word like that is the kind of attention-getting tactic I learned from social media*
"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"
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I wrote 'intellectual dirth ' and the damn auto-correct dumbed it down to 'dirty.' I'm getting dumbed down everywhere! Lol.
Murderates works for me, hehehe.Yes, social media MURDERATES my intellect!
*notes that 'murderates' is not really a word. maybe using a non-word like that is the kind of attention-getting tactic I learned from social media
The King has one more move.
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Linna Heartbooger
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but this is why humans are better than computers.
The computer auto-corrects it with the wrong word.
The human knows what you meant, considers that saying "it's dearth," might cause awkwardness...
...but figures you want to know the right answer anyway!
(The day I first got to the point where I first realized a family member would probably be comfortable letting me include spelling corrections in e-mails was delightful.)
The computer auto-corrects it with the wrong word.
The human knows what you meant, considers that saying "it's dearth," might cause awkwardness...
...but figures you want to know the right answer anyway!
(The day I first got to the point where I first realized a family member would probably be comfortable letting me include spelling corrections in e-mails was delightful.)
"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"
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Autumn by a Karl Ove Knausgaard
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
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Eventually I will get it, but I just got Salman Rushdie's new book, The Golden House.
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
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Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook by a Mark Bray
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Along with my usual 2 or 3 nonfiction books. The King James Version of the Bible, Chazown by Craig Groeschel, Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. -Philo of Alexandria
ahhhh... if only all our creativity in wickedness could be fixed by "Corrupt a Wish." - Linna Heartlistener
ahhhh... if only all our creativity in wickedness could be fixed by "Corrupt a Wish." - Linna Heartlistener