What are you reading Chapter 4

[WG Plum]

 

[WG Plum]

Wayne was a weird dude.

 

[roccobass]

 

[Eli_Kyiv]

Geddy Lee - My Effin' Life

 

[Jeff Scott]

 

[roccobass]

 

[Standalone]

I'm teaching Frederick Douglass' "Narrative" to my Juniors and M.T. Andsrson's prescient dystopian YA novel from 2002 "Feed" to my 9th graders.

 

[FilterFunk]

I really enjoyed reading this quaint little book. It was originally published in 1938, and features songs that were written long before the monstrosity we know as the music industry, so the songwriters were not thinking about getting rich with their compositions. They were writing from the heart. The stories are informative and a joy to read.

This is the one I'm currently reading. "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is my favorite animated Christmas special, and I like reading about how it all came together.

 

[MAJOR METAL]

I was a philosophy undergrad and I'm still trying to understand Aristotle!

 

[Eli_Kyiv]

Kent Hartman - Goodnight, L.A.

 

[slobake]

Got "The Alchemist" as a Christmas gift from my son and daughter-in-love. I am about 1/3 of the way through the book. So far, it is written in simple unpretentious language, don't know if that is because it is a translation from Portuguese. Enjoying the story and it is insightful and thought provoking. When I grow up maybe I could write like Paulo Coelho.

 

[definenredefine]

I was visiting an old friend in DC this past week, and he had a gift for me -

Pretty excited to read this...

 

[kleinenenten]

Celebrated a late Christmas today, and received my 20th translation/adaptation of Beowulf. Guess I'll need to add that to the list! Currently, I'm slowly getting through Aesop's Fables. The past 6 weeks or so we've had all sorts of illnesses and other things preventing me from focusing on much of anything outside the essentials, so short fables have been about all I can reliably read. Still, a fun little book, and interesting to hear the stories behind so many of our common sayings.

 

[WG Plum]

 

[slobake]

Finished reading "the Alchemist." Been thinking about it and at this point I would rate it meh. Some great ideas about pursuing our destinies and how we overcomplicate that. The writing reminded me of "The Little Prince" and seemed somewhat Hallmark greeting card ish.
It comes down to what is each person's treasure. That idea was explored better in "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse or even in U2's "Where the Streets Have No Name" and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For."
On a positive note the book is a good reminder to not give up on our dreams and to become who we were created to be. Like Bono I want to be "Where all the colors bleed into one."

 

[Bunk McNulty]

Aren't you glad you know how to read? I'm amazed at how many of my fellow Americans can't.

 

[WG Plum]

Over half are poorly literate. Not ideal, but yeah, I'm definitely glad I can read.

Finished Adrian Tchaikovsky's Eyes of the Void in a couple of days, very fun read and I'm looking forward to the next one.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Gibberish​

 

[slobake]

Gibberish​

??? Is that the name of a book you are reading?

 

[Tom Bomb]

That's all very nice but I can't read. You needn't bother.​