Resolving My Cheater Shame: Listening to Books Instead of Reading Them – by Kristen Tsetsi…
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When I told my husband, Ian, several weeks ago that I’d finished reading Andre Dubus III’s Townie, I corrected myself by hastily adding air quotes.
“I mean, finished listening to it,” I said, feeling like a poseur.
“Whatever,” he said. “Same thing.”
“You think?” The hope in my voice was embarrassing. I so wanted them to be the same, wanted to be authentically “well read.” Surely, though, the passive act of being read to by someone who’d decided for every listener where to inflect and what tone to apply to each line of dialogue wasn’t the same as determining those things for myself.
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Last Monday’s poll tells me that you folks would prefer to read weekly posts from The Paranormalist on Fridays.
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Rainbow Book Challenge: 2018
Happy Monday, folks! Coming at you today with a new reading challenge that I accidentally set for myself over the past weekend.
Let me break it down.
We decided to renovate our spare bedroom (and my book room) into an office/work space where I can lesson plan during the school year. To do this, I had to completely empty the room and, while I was putting everything back, I decided to organize my books in a different way. Previously, they were organized by author but I figured colour might be a little more exciting. And, the Rainbow Reading Challenge was born!
For the rest of the year, I plan on reading all my personal books on my shelf by colour. I am hoping that this will help to get some books off my TBR shelf (you know the ones that have been there FOREVER) and that it will help to take…
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English, origins and style #amwriting
One of my favorite subjects is how English is and will always be an ever-evolving and ever-disintegrating language. The history of the evolution of English is intriguing.
In recent years scholars have determined that if you want to make Shakespearean poetry and prose rhyme, it must be read with what is now a Scottish/Appalachianaccent, as that was the accent of Renaissance England, and pronounce words the way they are spelled. To hear for yourself, go out to NPR’s Shakespeare’s Accent: How Did The Bard Really Sound?I found it to be a treat.
Jonathan Swift, writer and Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, complained to the Earl of Oxford in 1712: “Our Language is extremely imperfect. Its daily Improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily Corruptions; and the Pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied Abuses and Absurdities.” He went so…
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