Books

Image by Rick Brown from Pixabay New Word #111 I haven’t watched the South Korean TV show “Squid Game” on Netflix–maybe I will do so during the holiday season. According … Continue reading New Word: Games →

From My iPhone Professor Coleman Silk, in his seventies, used a derogatory word to describe two absent students in his class. The students complained, the school investigated, and the news … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: A Secret Revealed →

Image by geri cleveland from Pixabay Quote of the day #50 It’s a simple story. Peter is a writer who published a popular book before he’s 30. He meets Maureen, … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Wake Up, You Are In … →

From My IPhone Quote Of The Day #49 Wilkie Walker is a 60-year-old professor, writer, and naturalist. He thought he had cancer and didn’t want to go through the indignity … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: The Last Resort →

Quote Of The Day #48 Emmy lives happily with her husband Holman Turner and their five-year-old son Freddy near Convers College in Upstate New York, where Holman is an assistant … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Love And Friendship →

Quote Of The Day #47 I’ve tried to read a scary book like “Dead Zone”, “1922”, or “Full Dark, No Stars” by Stephen King, but I ended up reading “11/22/63”, … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Weekend Reading →

This is the 2nd part of the story. The first part is here. Nali thought about how to get those books from Sulang, but it was just a thought. An … Continue reading The School Bully (Flash Fiction Part 2) →

Paul and Katherine, the loving couple, fly from Boston to Los Angeles. Paul is a thirty-year-old historian who finds a wonderful job at a big corporation in the West Coast. … Continue reading Somewhere And Nowhere →

Quote Of The Day #46 Alan and Jane had a perfect marriage–he’s a professor, architect, and writer in a university in upstate New York while she’s a capable senior administrator … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Complicated and Unexpected →

Quote Of The Day #45 Why shouldn’t she, like Polly, have made at least one serious mistake in a rush of passion. In the absence of happiness, pleasure and power … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Contradicting Views →

Quote Of The Day #44 When her husband left eighteen months ago, Polly hadn’t expected her life to turn out like this. Miserable and angry though she was, she had … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Know Yourself →

Quote Of The Day #43 Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever. Sometimes I think wanting to be … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Campus Controversies →

Quote Of The Day #42 I read this author’s “The Loyal Son” about Ben Franklin and his son, and really like it. I have to say our local grocery store … Continue reading Quote Of The Day →

Quote Of The Day #41 I read three of Stephen King’s book before: “1922”, “The Dead Zone”, “Full Dark, No Stars”. And I like all of them. And this is … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Not Scary →

Quote Of The Day #40 “Scenes Of Clerical Life” by George Eliot I was surprised to find that this book is better than “Middlemarch”, which I read long time ago. … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Better Than Middlemarch →

Quote Of The Day #39 I’ve got this habit of picking up books from the local grocery store. They are very good sleep aids–reading several pages can put me to … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Life In The 18th Century →

Image by Jerzy Górecki from Pixabay I have an Audible plus membership and it gives free audio books. Even though I know I often don’t like these free books, I … Continue reading Quote Of The Day #38 →

Image by StockSnap from Pixabay “The Thing Around Your Neck” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the first book I read that’s written about immigrants’ life from an immigrant’s point of … Continue reading Quote Of The Day #37 →

Image by virin000 from Pixabay I was reading “The Collected Poetry Of Dorothy Parker”. These poems are too sad and despondent for my taste. I think probably the author can … Continue reading Quote Of The Day #36 →

Image by Lubov Lisitsa from Pixabay February is the month with the most festivities because it has four holidays. This happens almost every year, except when the Lunar New Year … Continue reading February Festivities →

Image by Erin East from Pixabay I stumbled upon a YouTube video, which is also a book “Political Philosophy” by Steven B. Smith. It’s posted by YaleCourse and it is … Continue reading Quote Of The Day #35 →

Image by Kristine Lejniece from Pixabay I found some quotes on “hope” that I think are very interesting. We can’t live without hope, but hope can sometimes lead us astray. … Continue reading Quote Of The Day 34 →

Image by Sarah Richter from Pixabay I just finished “Irrational Man” by William Barrett, with only an hour of appendix to go. I have to say I still don’t understand … Continue reading Irrational Man →

Image by FETHI BOUHAOUCHINE from Pixabay I’ve been reading these books for at least two months, but the progress is rather slow. Life has too many distractions and reading is … Continue reading December Reading →

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Unfinished Story I can’t come up with an ending for the “The King And The Thief” post of yesterday. And right now I don’t … Continue reading November Unfinished →

Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay Finally finished the book “Utilitarianism/On Liberty”. I already read “On Liberty” before, but this combined book was on sale on Audible. I just can’t … Continue reading Quote Of The Day #33 →

Image by azboomer from Pixabay I was too busy yesterday, Veterans Day, to finish this post. I often watch a documentary or a movie on wars for this day. All … Continue reading Veterans Day Favorite →

Image by Ylanite Koppens from Pixabay I am cleaning up my bookshelf and getting rid of books I have no intention of rereading, and books that I haven’t read and … Continue reading Shelf Life →

Finally, I am finishing reading this very entertaining and very pessimistic book. And the last 20% of the book is even more fun to read than the previous chapters. One … Continue reading Quote Of The Day #32 →

Finally I am at the last quarter of this book. Here Mencken is getting more pessimistic and more entertaining. We can’t take him too seriously and his ideas are often … Continue reading Quote Of The Day #31 →

Image by Yuri_B from Pixabay More Mencken. I don’t have much time to read every day and now I feel that I am stuck with this Mencken book forever. He … Continue reading Quote Of The Day #30 →

Photo by Suzy Hazelwood from Pexels I’ve been reading “Chrestomathy” for a month, but still I haven’t finished it. It is so interesting that I really don’t want to skip. … Continue reading Quote Of The Day #29 →

Image by Gerhard G. from Pixabay He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not only by the other animals and by the delusive face of nature herself, but also and more … Continue reading Quote Of The Day #28 →

Image by Laci Döme from Pixabay I dislike Nietzsche very strongly when he talks about women or marriage–he is quite mad and biased and unfair. However when he talks about … Continue reading Quote Of The Day #27 →

Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay I think these quotes should be called anti-quotes rather than quotes since they sound downright ridiculous. I like H. L. Mencken a lot but … Continue reading Quote Of The Day #26 →

Image by Pexels from Pixabay I’m often annoyed when bookworms are mocked or criticized in books. Around the world, little bookworms are often unfairly ostracized and isolated from their relatives … Continue reading Ode To Bookworms →

Image by Gerhard G. from Pixabay I vowed that I would never buy another book on sale at Audible.com, but here I was, once again, bought something just because of … Continue reading Quote Of The Day #25 →

Image by Pexels from Pixabay Talking with an old friend, I suddenly felt the urge to find some quotes about friendship. These are several I found from books. I tried … Continue reading Quote Of The Day #24 →

Image by Willgard Krause from Pixabay I don’t agree with what H. L. Mencken says, but still what he says is very entertaining. His ideas of relationship between men and … Continue reading Quote Of The Day #23 →

Quotes about love are my favorite. Good or bad, funny or boring, idealistic or cynical, common sense or crazy, sentimental or logical, passionate or insipid. I don’t mind what kind. … Continue reading Quote Of The Day #19 →

Image by Elena Tishkova from Pixabay “Orthodoxy” by G. K. Chesterton is on sale at Audible.com and you know me, who cannot resist a discount, which is the reason why … Continue reading Quote Of The Day #18 →

shiv: a knife or razor used as a weapon.kryptonite: an alien mineral that has the property of depriving Superman of his powers. (It’s only used in fantasy novels or movies.)These … Continue reading New Word #38: Recently Learned →

I should have read “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” long time ago, but I didn’t. Mostly because I was afraid that the description is so … Continue reading The Great Escape →

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I just read the essay “It Is Obscene” from https://www.chimamanda.com/ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, whose book “Americanah” I bought but haven’t read yet. And it is such a wonderful essay, … Continue reading Quote Of The Day #16 →

When I was young, there’s an old guy in our neighborhood who was rumored to have a colorful life–a farmer turned bandit, a bandit turned soldier turned small business owner. … Continue reading Resilient But Divided →

I’ve never known the difference between the word freedom and the word liberty–I think the two are interchangeable but most likely they are not. However I am too lazy to … Continue reading Life And Existence →