Books

from my cell phone This is the second half of the post and the first half is here. I read this book because I heard that this book is based … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Fiction & Reality (Continued) →

from my cell phone Quote Of The Day #62 Ira never graduated from high school and he worked in a factory after WWII. However he had a gift in talking … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Fiction & Reality →

Image by Kira from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #61 “Everything undeniably true struck me as transparently false as soon as I wrote it down, and the greater the effort … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: The Ghost Writes →

from my phone Quote Of The Day #60 “History never repeats itself; man always does” “People do some crazy things about money, but no one is crazy. People from different … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Saving Or Spending →

Image by Capucine from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #59 I think I must have missed half of the jokes or parody or satires in this book since there are … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Slang And Satire →

Quote Of The Day # 58 “…Recite a text and then the young monks have the job of memorizing them. Simply absorb the teaching while memorizing in the classic Indian … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Lively Debate →

Image by Tiểu Bảo Trương from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #57 Irena moved to Paris after Prague Spring. She and her husband struggled to raise their two daughters. About … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: The Feeling Of Belonging To Nowhere →

Image by Pavan Prasad from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #56 Josie grew up in a small town near Chicago. Her family was chaotic and her parents were not very … Continue reading Quote Of the Day: Josie’s Story →

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #55 Our parents were, with few exceptions, the first-generation offspring of poor turn-of-century immigrants from Galicia and Polish Russia, raised … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Diversity And Conflicts →

Image by Monika from Pixabay Two girls, Banford and March, about thirty years old, bought a little farm together. In those days (about one hundred years ago when the story … Continue reading The Foxy Plan →

Image by StockSnap from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #54 One thing I like about the book in my last post here is that there are many descriptions of immigrants … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: The Descriptions Of Immigrants →

Image by StockSnap from Pixabay The Swede was a star athlete in his high school’s football, basketball, and baseball team. He could go on to be a member of the … Continue reading The Swede’s Perfect Life →

The local grocery stores have free newspapers that one can pick up after one’s shopping. The most popular one is this newspaper “El Españolito”, which one can only get on … Continue reading Make It More Interesting →

Image by Pexels from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #53 Arthur was in love with Sybil. He was about to propose. Then he went to a party and met a … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Predestined →

Image by Maurygraf from Pixabay Quote of the day #52 I usually read history books that I can relate a little bit, but this book is on sale on Audible … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Long Time Ago →

Image by Pexels from Pixabay Maggie was a beautiful and capable woman. Since she grew up in a poor and dysfunctional family, she got married very young just to get … Continue reading For Better Or Worse →

Image by Tayyab Bashir from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #52 About 10 years ago, I read Gloria Steinem’s “Moving Beyond Words” and it was a very good read. I … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: On The Road →

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 Quote Of The Day #51 Professor Coleman Silk, in his seventies, used a derogatory word to describe two absent students in his class. The students complained, the … 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 →