- Quote Of The Day: Walk Through A Wall (Continued)Image by photosforyou from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #71 This is the 2nd half of the post. The 1st half is here. I’ve had “The Complete Stories” by Bernard … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Walk Through A Wall (Continued)
- Quote Of The Day: Sleeping On The WingQuote Of The Day #70 Finally, I find a translated poem that I really like. If you are one of the millions and millions of non-native speakers, you will understand … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Sleeping On The Wing
- Quote Of The Day: Love And RomanceImage by Kati from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #69 I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Love And Romance
- Quote Of The Day: Knowing YourselfImage by John Hain from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #68 “Narcissistic and toxic relationships tend to hijack our brains, leaving our bodies to do the heavy lifting. Over the … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Knowing Yourself
- Numbed With ThrillsImage by Enrique Meseguer from Pixabay After two months, I am thrilled to exhaustion. Now no matter how many bodies there are, how bloody the scene is, how thrilling the … Continue reading Numbed With Thrills
- I Wish I Didn’t Say That (Continued)Image by Andreas Hoja from Pixabay This is the 2nd half of the story. The 1st half is here. Basically in the 1st half, I talked about my conversation with … Continue reading I Wish I Didn’t Say That (Continued)
- Quote Of The Day: Moon Is Not Cost EfficientQuote Of The Day #67 it was a waste to have a moon here,a moon is not cost efficient Inalienable nomads, global citizensunfettered limbswe are heartsick for the true world … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Moon Is Not Cost Efficient
- Quote Of The Day: The Perfect PerformanceImage by hoahoa111 from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #66 I have become a bore, I have been asked to forfeit my independent young feminist card. I don’t care. I … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: The Perfect Performance
- Quote Of The Day: Too Tender To Be toldImage by ADD from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #65 A perfect, paralyzing blissContented as despair I took my power in my handand went against the worldIt was not much … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Too Tender To Be told
- The Christmas ThrillersImage by Dean Lewis from Pixabay I haven’t read thrillers or detective stories for a long time. I think the last thriller I read was “Pirate Latitude” in 2009. That … Continue reading The Christmas Thrillers
- An Interesting Stretch Of RealityImage by Capucine from Pixabay I read Pooja’s review of “The Housemaid” by Freida Mcfadden and bought the book to read for myself. It’s an easy and fun read, which … Continue reading An Interesting Stretch Of Reality
- Quote Of The Day: Husband And WifeImage by Annette Meyer from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #64 Joe Castleman is flying from New York to Helsinki with his wife Joan to receive the Helsinki Award for … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Husband And Wife
- Quote Of The Day: Love And DatingImage by Neil Dodhia from Pixabay Quote Of The Day # 63 It has become so necessary to maintain power structures to benefit a selected few that it has become … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Love And Dating
- Quote Of The Day: Fiction & Reality (Continued)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)
- Quote Of The Day: Fiction & Realityfrom 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
- Quote Of The Day: The Ghost WritesImage 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
- Quote Of The Day: Saving Or Spendingfrom 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
- Quote Of The Day: Slang And SatireImage 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: Lively DebateQuote 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
- Quote Of The Day: The Feeling Of Belonging To NowhereImage 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
- Quote Of the Day: Josie’s StoryImage 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
- Quote Of The Day: Diversity And ConflictsImage 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
- The Foxy PlanImage 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
- Quote Of The Day: The Descriptions Of ImmigrantsImage 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
- The Swede’s Perfect LifeImage 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
- Make It More InterestingThe 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
- Quote Of The Day: PredestinedImage 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
- Quote Of The Day: Long Time AgoImage 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
- For Better Or WorseImage 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
- Quote Of The Day: On The RoadImage 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
- 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 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
- 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