- New Word: GamesImage 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
- Quote Of The Day: A Secret RevealedFrom 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
- Quote Of The Day: Wake Up, You Are In …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 …
- Quote Of The Day: The Last ResortFrom 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: Love And FriendshipQuote 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: Weekend ReadingQuote 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
- The School Bully (Flash Fiction Part 2)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)
- Somewhere And NowherePaul 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: Complicated and UnexpectedQuote 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: Contradicting ViewsQuote 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: Know YourselfQuote 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: Campus ControversiesQuote 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 DayQuote 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: Not ScaryQuote 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: Better Than MiddlemarchQuote 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: Life In The 18th CenturyQuote 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
- Quote Of The Day #38Image 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
- Quote Of The Day #37Image 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
- Quote Of The Day #36Image 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
- February FestivitiesImage 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
- Quote Of The Day #35Image 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
- Quote Of The Day 34Image 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
- Irrational ManImage 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
- December ReadingImage 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
- November UnfinishedImage 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
- Quote Of The Day #33Image 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
- Veterans Day FavoriteImage 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
- Shelf LifeImage 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
- Quote Of The Day #32Finally, 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
- Quote Of The Day #31Finally 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
- Quote Of The Day #30Image 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
- Quote Of The Day #29Photo 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
- Quote Of The Day #28Image 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
- Quote Of The Day #27Image 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
- Quote Of The Day #26Image 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
- Ode To BookwormsImage 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
- Quote Of The Day #25Image 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
- Quote Of The Day #24Image 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
- Quote Of The Day #23Image 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
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- Quote Of The Day #19Quotes 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
- Quote Of The Day #18Image 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
- New Word #38: Recently Learnedshiv: 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
- The Great EscapeI 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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- Quote Of The Day #16I 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
- Resilient But DividedWhen 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
- Life And ExistenceI’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
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