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I am enjoying The Language of Balklava. Between reading this book and the fact that I started intentionally teaching the kids to cook this month, our trip to the grocery store was a comical event of mom and children running after fresh produce left and right. We have arrived at the checkout with our cart looking like a garden and DS was hugging a bag of wrapped up chicken (his chicken!).
Here are some of my favorites from The Language of Baklava
"The sidewalks are not like the orderly, straight-line sidewalks of our old neighborhood. Here, they wind around and roam this way and that, as if they've decided to go where they pleased."
"I have never seen a sleeping street before, never known what secret intimacy could rise from the pavement like steam."
I have two major distractions currently. 1) I'm almost done with the great closet purge of 2014 and I am struggling to finish it. I'm giving myself until the end of next week and then I'm done regardless. 2) I discovered two days ago that I can play my violin for as long as I want without pain. I can't put my instrument down. I'm having an affair with Bach.
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I remember reading 100 Years of Solitude over a decade ago. Loved it.
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I had to google 'fairy bread'. :ack2: is right.
Gross! So Gross!
Just finished Flames of Rome!
Now onto Pilgrim's Progress. Do you read the original or the revised for modern readers?
The version I read was free and I don't think it was revised much if it all. It was incredibly wordy. I'm not the most attentive reader and probably would have done better with a more modern version.
Happy Spring??
What is with this wackadoo weather? I am going off to the Midwest soon to visit family and I cannot figure out what in the heck to pack!
Our final blizzard last year was in May so pack everything. :lol: I felt the same way about packing to go south earlier in the winter so I clung to this packing guide and was fine: http://www.adventure-chic.com/packing-guide-for-warm-weather/
It's missing the winter coat and boots that took up a good chunk of my packing space.
Happy anniversary Stacia!
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Thanks. I've got a couple more days of drinking Hemingways. My aunt's best-friend from when they were 3 years old was the lady killed at the Jewish Community Center shooting a few days ago. My aunt is devastated over it. I've known Terri my whole life but wasn't close to her like my aunt was. Today is the visitation and tomorrow is the funeral. I'm so sad for her family and so angry. Just so incredibly bitterly angry over the senselessness of it. Terri had been visiting her mother (who is 92 years old and was my grandmother's best friend) at the nursing home when she was killed.
I am so sorry.
I can't keep up with you all and you are not helping my recent decision. I had a really odd stomach bug and so I decided to give up sugar and other things that probably are not good for me. Somehow a couple handfuls of chocolate covered pretzels flew into my mouth today and then I come on here and see chocolate. My resolution is fading.
The Language of Baklava is waiting for me. Kids are fighting bedtime and there's a blizzard in the dark giving us the perfect snow for making snowmen. Perhaps school will be canceled tomorrow.
See....I need chocolate....and wine.
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For my IRL interfaith book group, I read Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Peace is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life. He is always such a delight, and this one is no exception. Here is one of so many of his easy-peasy, interfaith infused, gentle calls for attentiveness:
"In my (Buddhist) tradition, we use the temple bells to remind us to come back to the present moment. Every time we hear the bell, we stop talking, stop our thinking, and return to ourselves, breathing in and out, and smiling... Since I have come to the West, I have not heard many Buddhist temple bells. But fortunately, there are church bells all over Europe.. Whenever I give a lecture in Switzerland, I always make use of the church bells to practice mindfulness. When the bell rings, I stop talking, and all of us listen to the full sound of the bell. We enjoy it so much. (I think it is better than the lecture!) When we hear the bell, we can pause and enjoy our breathing and get in touch with the wonders of life that are around us -- the flowers, the children, the beautiful sounds. Each time we get back in touch with ourselves, the conditions become favorable for us to encounter life in the present moment."
This is really beautiful. We don't have church bells where I live unfortunately. I was trying to think of what could be a reminder and came up with planes flying overhead and coyotes howling. It's just not the same as church bells.
#20 is cute
Fun idea! I could try to participate, but I do get a lot of the books I read from the library, lol. (I can still come up w/ some books to send, though.) Over the past year or two, I have sent a few books on to fellow BaWers (& they have shared a few w/ me too).
We need a flat librarian or something that could go along & then each person to get the box would have to take a photo of the flat librarian on their bookcases, or in their library, or out & about in town, etc.... :lol:
Hey, for overseas pals, we could send postcards saying hi. I say that because Rosie did the awesome postcard send-out from Hanging Rock if you read Picnic at Hanging Rock. (Which I most certainly read because I considered it to be uber cool to receive a postcard from the locale & the better bonus that it was from Rosie!)
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Most of my books are nook or library books as well now unless they are art books. But I can draw some nice postcards.
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We finished the taxes and had our annual hissy fit about paying so much. However very grateful the business is successful for another year and we can afford to pay it off without going into debt. Something I have to remind my hubby of each time. Have to file an extension since 2012 is still being audited, but still have to pay the full amount to avoid penalties. I need a stress break. Think I'll browse through Barnes and Noble tomorrow and treat myself. On ipad so ~cheeky grin~. I'm in the mood for something different. You get to choose ladies. Tell me what your favorite book so far this year had been and I will get one or two or three.......
Have you read Song of Achilles? The author spent a decade working on it and the effort shows.
I finished Gulliver's Travels today and by the end really liked it. I think Swift let loose at the end and was brazen about making his points.
You all convinced me to try The Language of Baklava so I am waiting for that to arrive at my library. Herodotus's Histories is on my library hold list now too. In the meantime, I started Gawain and the Green Knight and have Pride and Prejudice on standby. I keep eyeing C.S. Lewis's Surprised by Joy, but I am worried about overwhelming myself with too many library books that need to be read ASAP. I'm waiting on that one.
Cheers!
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Praying.
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"Here's a sobering article on internet surfing and skimming and its effects on sustained reading. My reading time has definitely declined in the last decade as the internet has so heavily entered into my life. But BaW group is certainly impacting my reading for the better "
I lost my phone for the majority of today and had a beautiful relaxing day with my little boy. He looked for worms and grubs under all my landscaping rock and I raked until my muscles ached. Then I read Gulliver's Travels and have made it to th "Mr Ed" talking horse part. I'm finding this last bit interesting when compared with some Circe lectures- especially the depiction of a severely segmented education and the demise of immortal people. I'm still not a Gulliver's girl but have come to appreciate it and may name the miniature kids garden Lilliput.
Excuse the typos please as I am on my found phone. I may "lose" it again tomorrow. ;)
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Quick note to Winter Wonderland: My then 8th grade son adored Gulliver's Travels because of its similarity to Monty Python. I have often recommended GT as the perfect 8th grade book, followed by the argumentative Republic (Plato) in 9th. These books resonate with developmental stages!
I can see this. I've been thinking that some of my old high school friends would love this but, then again, maybe they've grown up since then.
And this is the knitting project that always comes out during nanowrimo for some reason. So just in case anyone has not been exposed to this loveliness- the knitted turkey hat....
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There are a lot of accents and stereotypes perpetuated in the examples in The Fallacy Detective. They range from the dumb surfer, to mafia like accents and so forth. I'm ok with accents in a text when they are true to a story or add to a story. This made me cringe. I don't think the stereotypes were necessary.
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you all are scaring me....I just started Gulliver's Travels...and I really do want to finish it....but now I am scared that it will be like don quio...which I gave up on after the 1st part
I realized last night that Gulliver's Travels reminds me of the Monty Python skits. My imagination was taking the whole thing too seriously before.
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And here's an interesting article on the 2014 London Book Fair on looking beyond the book and to the internet. What do you think?
I've wondered if handmade/artsy books will become more popular with the internet and all the nooks and such. Buying a physical book maybe will be more of an investment, a treasure for a home library instead of a whim.
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#26 cracked me up as far as bookshelves go. I've been debating putting a towel hanging/bookshelf thing in the bathroom. Would that be gross? I know a lot of people have unofficial reading material in bathrooms but this would make it official.
Last night I started Gulliver's Travels again and it went better. Before I picked it up, I was musing whether my issues with it stem from being a woman and I really can't appreciate all the talk about peeing on things. Now I think it's just not a great book for me and I think, when I finish it, I will simply have to reward myself with some light fun reading material to celebrate spring.
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I finished For the Children's Sake today while the kids were playing on a "raft" in the unfrozen part of the lake. They were on a couple boards that were grounded in mud and I enjoyed reading in the sunshine while they played. The political statement at the end of the book surprised me. I can see why it was included but it seemed jarring to me. Also, I seem to have changed the phrase, "I am, I can, I ought, I will" to "I am, I want, I should, I will". It's not necessarily bad as we are talking about the difference between doing what we want to do vs. should do but I didn't realize we had changed it. Lol
So I'm back to Gulliver's Travels and am more inclined to keep at now that I know what I'm in for with this author. Happy end of the week everyone! -
You can use wet tea bags to push down on the sights as well. I can't remember if they are to help with swelling, pain or dry sockets but it can't hurt to have some tea bags on hand.
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Ds (4) just told me he wants to make a "strata-swirl tie dye shirt!" I wasn't planning on tie dying any time soon. LOL
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