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liveweyerd · 10-18-2007, 08:28 PM

Teach,

Daggone it, I just took that book to my sis's for loan last weekend. And I know YOU would like and appreciate it so much more!!!!!!! She called this morning and said she found it a hard read but would finish it.
I found it compelling and you wouldn't be distracted by the history (LOL) as she is.
I do want her to read it because I do so agree with the conclusion of the work and would like to open her mind to that. For many reasons.
The title is Commonground and the last name of the author as I recall it is Lukas. It is a Pulitzer winner, so that would distinguish from others. It would be listed under social studies or political science, I would guess.

Do you know what one of my favorite remedies for the "poor me"'s is? Re-reading the Grapes of Wrath. LOL I love that book so dearly.

I am, not for the first time, utterly tired and sick of popular fiction and fad non-fiction.

I once had an great reference library but it is all in storage in Indiana. That is hard.
My hands and heart are hungry for literature. While my funds are non-exixtent and have OOPS! a big fine at the library. GULP. I think I'll call and find out if they ever have an amnesty day!!!!
Last week I read One Hundred Days in Solitute by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It won his Nobel, but I liked the two others of his I had read before better. As in "Love in the Time of Cholera"

If you have any favorites to suggest, I will note them in my wish list

I have not noted the two books I consider most important in their work and even in the utter eloquence of writing....but I will leave those for later, as I am satisfied with the flavor of this post.

I hope you are well, beautiful lady! And the tolerance of an educator...yeah, I noticed that!!!! LOL

Love,
Tena

shutterbug · 10-18-2007, 09:47 PM

Tena...what kind of books do you enjoy reading right now? I've got some old-school fiction works like Three Musketers and all that kind of crap that I want nothing to do with, but haven't had the heart to toss them out. I had to buy them for a literature class in college and i think i got through 1/2 of one, 1/3 through another and only a couple chapters into another....some still have the celophane wrapping on them!! I'd love to send them to you if you'd like to have them!

liveweyerd · 10-19-2007, 05:33 AM

Oh Please, Jenna!
I am so mad at me for giving away my world literature textbook!!!!
Love!
Tena

KatieRose · 10-19-2007, 05:53 AM

Tena,
How are you? Missed you.

shutterbug · 10-19-2007, 06:27 AM

yay! you got em sis!

GailJ · 10-19-2007, 06:31 AM

It's very good so see you back here Live, you sound like your doing very well. WishI could contribute to your wishlist but sadly I have ony just started reading again after not reading for years. My mum used to collect antique hardcover books, like you I have them but all still in storage. I used to enjoy reading poetry books written in the late 1800's to the 1940's, historical biographies of Royalty, from roman times right up to current day(so many conspiracies in liniages). Also loved the complete unabridged version of all of Edgar Allan Poes works, anything by Isacc Asimov, Was a Lord of the Rings fan too long before the movies came out.

liveweyerd · 10-19-2007, 01:11 PM

Big hugs, Katie! And some more!

Gail, you look so beautiful!

I prefer social sciences, humanities, WWI & II and Vietnam and well, lots of things.
But no fantasy or romance (unless it is a classic) Don't like Shakespeare. I liked the Studs Terkel interviews with veterans, it burned permanent images in my mind. And now I love talking with vets and they talk to me because I know a bit about what they are talking about and they appreciate that in our generation.

I know Jenna is re-reading the rules.

I was just telling hubs the other night, doesn't he know that a proper young lady, no matter how flirtatious with her parasol is obliged to slap a young man the first time he kisses her. LOL

AND, did you all know that Joe Kennedy bought the Pulitzer for John's Profile in Courage??????? The nominating committee wasn't even considering it!!!

I do have a copy of Thomas Moore's "Dark night of the soul" on the shelf, will look at it next, but if I react with depression, it goes back on the shelf. He is a famous and eclectic monk.

Always love to hear what any of you are reading and your reviews of it.

The book I was talking about is one of those that educate and change the way I view things forever, and in a subject I am all ready so interested in. And, timely, in my growing up years (tho' I was tucked away in Mayberry and knew nothing of the world). To simplify it is to say it studies racial issues, but it is so much more than that! It is a thorough study trying to get to the real issues and incorporates politics, history and follows the stories of families from different realities in this time. It is a realistic study, neither idealized or rhetorical.

Want to play word of the day too?
Mine for today is efficacious. (We need a really GOOD dictionary for this game!) LOL

Or share fun and interesting facts from something you read?

Tell what you like about your fancy in books, Gail? That's something I don't know anything about or understand.

KatieRose · 10-19-2007, 06:32 PM

I'm finally 37. Birthday was no big deal.

shutterbug · 10-19-2007, 06:45 PM

Is efficacious having something to do with a facade? I've heard my boss use efficacious at least once, but can't remember what it meant.

so what's the name of that book? The one this thread is about?

And surely you jest? i've never seriously slapped a person in the face! And what about the guys who ASK if they can kiss you? lol

Gail...is that really a picture of you??? It is a seriously beautiful photo!

The Rules are funny at times, but i believe they are right. Wednesday office boy said...yadda, yadda, tease, tease..."And then you'd have to let me sleep on your couch." Ummm who is he kidding? Yesterday i repaid his favor of that cup of coffee he got me months ago by getting him a glass of whater and when i told him not to get use to it he said, "That's what ALL my women do for me" Ha!! He wishes they did! And that was just a little too obvious that he was trying to say that if i wanted to be "one of his women then i'd need to start waiting on him and his wishes." Ummm...no.

liveweyerd · 10-19-2007, 06:52 PM

LMAO, Jenna! Does he really have a date? I thought he was pretty good that time at being obedient....as well as shaken?

Title is in post one.

Happy Birthday, Katie!

shutterbug · 10-19-2007, 07:08 PM

i don't think he really has any dates right now, but i could be wrong because he's been being a little overly confident and smirkish this week....like he's "all that and a bag of chips"

yes....obediant little boy he is...although...i didn't get those chocolates, and he's being very brickish about doing ANYTHING for me lately...even things he's SUPPOSE to do for the job like mail copies to people featured in stories when they ask. Instead, he had to give me a "lesson" on where the papers are. Duh. Where the envelopes are. Duh. and then ask if i knew how to address the envelope. I said simply, "no" and his intern assistent laughed and said, "neither does he! He always just throws them at me and tells me to do it!" His boss walked in to "ream" him a little and when she was done we all laughed a bit and since he had gathered up all the mail stuff to send the copies...i simply said. "So I think you can handle the rest of that by yourself now." And walked out with a smile

Just for fun i followed up with an e-mail thanking him for always being so good at explaining things to me and asked if he would come over and teach me how to use a screw driver while he put my new futon together.

I got simply a "haha!" response to that one

poor boy....he's going to be a mess next week when he realizes i won't be there!

shutterbug · 10-19-2007, 07:10 PM

Grapes of Wrath?

liveweyerd · 10-19-2007, 07:28 PM

Commonground

shutterbug · 10-19-2007, 07:33 PM

oh...that's a new one to me.
off to sis's
love you

10-18-2007, 08:28 PM	#1 (permalink)
liveweyerd Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 8,275 Blog Entries: 5	HistoryTeach and friends Teach, Daggone it, I just took that book to my sis's for loan last weekend. And I know YOU would like and appreciate it so much more!!!!!!! She called this morning and said she found it a hard read but would finish it. I found it compelling and you wouldn't be distracted by the history (LOL) as she is. I do want her to read it because I do so agree with the conclusion of the work and would like to open her mind to that. For many reasons. The title is Commonground and the last name of the author as I recall it is Lukas. It is a Pulitzer winner, so that would distinguish from others. It would be listed under social studies or political science, I would guess. Do you know what one of my favorite remedies for the "poor me"'s is? Re-reading the Grapes of Wrath. LOL I love that book so dearly. I am, not for the first time, utterly tired and sick of popular fiction and fad non-fiction. I once had an great reference library but it is all in storage in Indiana. That is hard. My hands and heart are hungry for literature. While my funds are non-exixtent and have OOPS! a big fine at the library. GULP. I think I'll call and find out if they ever have an amnesty day!!!! Last week I read One Hundred Days in Solitute by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It won his Nobel, but I liked the two others of his I had read before better. As in "Love in the Time of Cholera" If you have any favorites to suggest, I will note them in my wish list I have not noted the two books I consider most important in their work and even in the utter eloquence of writing....but I will leave those for later, as I am satisfied with the flavor of this post. I hope you are well, beautiful lady! And the tolerance of an educator...yeah, I noticed that!!!! LOL Love, Tena __________________ Each small candle lights a corner of the dark....Roger Waters

10-18-2007, 09:47 PM	#2 (permalink)
shutterbug A picture's worth a 1000 words Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: With any luck, I'm lost in a view finder Posts: 2,957	Tena...what kind of books do you enjoy reading right now? I've got some old-school fiction works like Three Musketers and all that kind of crap that I want nothing to do with, but haven't had the heart to toss them out. I had to buy them for a literature class in college and i think i got through 1/2 of one, 1/3 through another and only a couple chapters into another....some still have the celophane wrapping on them!! I'd love to send them to you if you'd like to have them! __________________ I'M FINE!! Fanatically Insecure Neuratic & Emotional Bipolar/Depression support: 1-800-950-NAMI(6264).

10-19-2007, 05:33 AM	#3 (permalink)
liveweyerd Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 8,275 Blog Entries: 5	Oh Please, Jenna! I am so mad at me for giving away my world literature textbook!!!! Love! Tena __________________ Each small candle lights a corner of the dark....Roger Waters

10-19-2007, 06:27 AM	#5 (permalink)
shutterbug A picture's worth a 1000 words Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: With any luck, I'm lost in a view finder Posts: 2,957	yay! you got em sis! __________________ I'M FINE!! Fanatically Insecure Neuratic & Emotional Bipolar/Depression support: 1-800-950-NAMI(6264).

10-19-2007, 01:11 PM	#7 (permalink)
liveweyerd Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 8,275 Blog Entries: 5	Big hugs, Katie! And some more! Gail, you look so beautiful! I prefer social sciences, humanities, WWI & II and Vietnam and well, lots of things. But no fantasy or romance (unless it is a classic) Don't like Shakespeare. I liked the Studs Terkel interviews with veterans, it burned permanent images in my mind. And now I love talking with vets and they talk to me because I know a bit about what they are talking about and they appreciate that in our generation. I know Jenna is re-reading the rules. I was just telling hubs the other night, doesn't he know that a proper young lady, no matter how flirtatious with her parasol is obliged to slap a young man the first time he kisses her. LOL AND, did you all know that Joe Kennedy bought the Pulitzer for John's Profile in Courage??????? The nominating committee wasn't even considering it!!! I do have a copy of Thomas Moore's "Dark night of the soul" on the shelf, will look at it next, but if I react with depression, it goes back on the shelf. He is a famous and eclectic monk. Always love to hear what any of you are reading and your reviews of it. The book I was talking about is one of those that educate and change the way I view things forever, and in a subject I am all ready so interested in. And, timely, in my growing up years (tho' I was tucked away in Mayberry and knew nothing of the world). To simplify it is to say it studies racial issues, but it is so much more than that! It is a thorough study trying to get to the real issues and incorporates politics, history and follows the stories of families from different realities in this time. It is a realistic study, neither idealized or rhetorical. Want to play word of the day too? Mine for today is efficacious. (We need a really GOOD dictionary for this game!) LOL Or share fun and interesting facts from something you read? Tell what you like about your fancy in books, Gail? That's something I don't know anything about or understand. __________________ Each small candle lights a corner of the dark....Roger Waters

10-19-2007, 05:53 AM	#4 (permalink)
KatieRose Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Indiana Posts: 168	Tena, How are you? Missed you.

10-19-2007, 06:31 AM	#6 (permalink)
GailJ Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Ontario Posts: 653	It's very good so see you back here Live, you sound like your doing very well. WishI could contribute to your wishlist but sadly I have ony just started reading again after not reading for years. My mum used to collect antique hardcover books, like you I have them but all still in storage. I used to enjoy reading poetry books written in the late 1800's to the 1940's, historical biographies of Royalty, from roman times right up to current day(so many conspiracies in liniages). Also loved the complete unabridged version of all of Edgar Allan Poes works, anything by Isacc Asimov, Was a Lord of the Rings fan too long before the movies came out.

10-19-2007, 06:32 PM	#8 (permalink)
KatieRose Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Indiana Posts: 168	I'm finally 37. Birthday was no big deal.

10-19-2007, 06:45 PM	#9 (permalink)
shutterbug A picture's worth a 1000 words Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: With any luck, I'm lost in a view finder Posts: 2,957	Is efficacious having something to do with a facade? I've heard my boss use efficacious at least once, but can't remember what it meant. so what's the name of that book? The one this thread is about? And surely you jest? i've never seriously slapped a person in the face! And what about the guys who ASK if they can kiss you? lol Gail...is that really a picture of you??? It is a seriously beautiful photo! The Rules are funny at times, but i believe they are right. Wednesday office boy said...yadda, yadda, tease, tease..."And then you'd have to let me sleep on your couch." Ummm who is he kidding? Yesterday i repaid his favor of that cup of coffee he got me months ago by getting him a glass of whater and when i told him not to get use to it he said, "That's what ALL my women do for me" Ha!! He wishes they did! And that was just a little too obvious that he was trying to say that if i wanted to be "one of his women then i'd need to start waiting on him and his wishes." Ummm...no. __________________ I'M FINE!! Fanatically Insecure Neuratic & Emotional Bipolar/Depression support: 1-800-950-NAMI(6264).

10-19-2007, 06:52 PM	#10 (permalink)
liveweyerd Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 8,275 Blog Entries: 5	LMAO, Jenna! Does he really have a date? I thought he was pretty good that time at being obedient....as well as shaken? Title is in post one. Happy Birthday, Katie! __________________ Each small candle lights a corner of the dark....Roger Waters

10-19-2007, 07:08 PM	#11 (permalink)
shutterbug A picture's worth a 1000 words Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: With any luck, I'm lost in a view finder Posts: 2,957	i don't think he really has any dates right now, but i could be wrong because he's been being a little overly confident and smirkish this week....like he's "all that and a bag of chips" yes....obediant little boy he is...although...i didn't get those chocolates, and he's being very brickish about doing ANYTHING for me lately...even things he's SUPPOSE to do for the job like mail copies to people featured in stories when they ask. Instead, he had to give me a "lesson" on where the papers are. Duh. Where the envelopes are. Duh. and then ask if i knew how to address the envelope. I said simply, "no" and his intern assistent laughed and said, "neither does he! He always just throws them at me and tells me to do it!" His boss walked in to "ream" him a little and when she was done we all laughed a bit and since he had gathered up all the mail stuff to send the copies...i simply said. "So I think you can handle the rest of that by yourself now." And walked out with a smile Just for fun i followed up with an e-mail thanking him for always being so good at explaining things to me and asked if he would come over and teach me how to use a screw driver while he put my new futon together. I got simply a "haha!" response to that one poor boy....he's going to be a mess next week when he realizes i won't be there! __________________ I'M FINE!! Fanatically Insecure Neuratic & Emotional Bipolar/Depression support: 1-800-950-NAMI(6264).

10-19-2007, 07:10 PM	#12 (permalink)
shutterbug A picture's worth a 1000 words Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: With any luck, I'm lost in a view finder Posts: 2,957	Grapes of Wrath? __________________ I'M FINE!! Fanatically Insecure Neuratic & Emotional Bipolar/Depression support: 1-800-950-NAMI(6264).

10-19-2007, 07:28 PM	#13 (permalink)
liveweyerd Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 8,275 Blog Entries: 5	Commonground __________________ Each small candle lights a corner of the dark....Roger Waters

10-19-2007, 07:33 PM	#14 (permalink)
shutterbug A picture's worth a 1000 words Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: With any luck, I'm lost in a view finder Posts: 2,957	oh...that's a new one to me. off to sis's love you __________________ I'M FINE!! Fanatically Insecure Neuratic & Emotional Bipolar/Depression support: 1-800-950-NAMI(6264).

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