Currently reading Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
Currently reading Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
"The Batman is Gotham City. I will watch him. Study him. And when I know him and why he does not kill, I will know this city. And then Gotham will be MINE!"-BANE
"We're monsters, buddy. Plain and simple. I don't dress it up with fancy names like mutant or post-human; men were born crueler than Apes and we were born crueler than men. It's just the natural order of things"-ULTIMATE SABRETOOTH
I liked it early on but it kind of drug the second half of the book. I'll probably do the rest but right now I've been trying to finish up a lot of my unlistened to audible books before picking up new ones. Because of sales I've picked up a lot of books over the last few years without using my credits. Then I'll decide which series I really want to finish or if I'd rather just use my credits to go and get an series I listened to years ago on CD's from the library but would like to listen to again (like the Dresden Files or Wheel of Time).
I finished the Ingrid Thoft thriller Loyalty.
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"I can't complain. I got to be Jim Morrison for the first half of my life, and Ward Cleaver for the second half." - Warren Zevon.
Since Winter -
The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics by Stephen Coss
Island on Fire: The extraordinary story of Laki, the volcano that turned eighteenth-century Europe dark by Jeff Kanipe
There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond by Meline Toumani
The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War by James Oakes
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 by James Oakes
The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights by William P. Jones
A Brief History of the Dynasties of China by Bamber Gascoigne
Once Upon A Revolution: An Egyptian Story by Thanassis Cambanis
As you can probably tell by the list I'm a history and political science buff besides being trained in Sociology.
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"So you've come to the end now alive but dead inside."
Just finished one of the Stranger Things novels. It wasn't awful, just decent
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“We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.”
Latest Kindle read: Killer's Wedge (1959) by Ed McBain, the eighth book from the 87th Precinct series by the late, great author.
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“We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.”
A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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Read that back in late October.
(Had to borrow it from a neighboring library, though, because an actual paper copy wasn't available through Barnes & Noble.)
First one was Cop Hater which originally came out back in 1956.
His last one in that series was published in 2005.
Querelle of Brest (1947) by Jean Genet
The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life In America by Charles Kaiser. Reading it as preparation for future instruction. Here in NJ, we'll have to start to teach LGBTQ history starting next year. Definitely feel it's a fascinating read, especially when it places events in historical context. Didn't realize pre Stonewall just how much of a gay culture there was. The interviews are nice as well. Since a lot of the interviews were taken in modern times, the stories are really thorough. What's cool is that some interviewees actually comment on articles or TV programs they produced regarding homosexuality.
My only complaint is that seems to focus a lot of gay men. Haven't finished it yet, but I see few lesbians, bisexuals, or transgenders mentioned. Also, there are few people of color. Still, I think this is a good starting point. Hope to learn more about this history in the future.
"I am a man of peace."
"A man of peace...who fights like ten tigers."
After not reading fiction for about 10 years, I tried the first Got book. It was easy written, very readable, but I lost interest half way, put it aside and forgot about it for a few weeks.
I believe that the modern times with shorter comics, using text messages instead of phoning, watching more tv shows instead of longer movies did shorten my attention span massively, up to the point where I cannot read a book anymore, because it takes too much time.
While reading, I think about the other stuff I want to read or watch. There is so much on the telly (streaming) and so many comic books, and life and work that I don't have the "time" to sit through a book anymore.
Except autobiographies, or books about history or documentaries.
I agree with this. I used to read voraciously to the tune of at least 4-5 books a month and sometimes more. My senior year of English in high school we had a book report assignment we had to read at least one book. I read 26 that semester. My teacher didn't believe me until she started quizzing me on them and I was able to give plot details of each of them.
Now some 20-30 years later I think I've actually read maybe 3 print books in the last year and each was a chore to get through as I just get distracted by things I'd rather be doing. I still listen to audio books constantly (my job is such that I usually get 4-6 hrs a shift of an audio book done) but other than comics and short attention span news articles on the net I don't read anything.