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I remember reading Little Women as a youngster. If I remember correctly one of the main characters is Jo. Great character. I read Little Women after reading Little Men. Fond memories of summer reading between school years, thank goodness for the Garland County book mobile. They made the route every 2 weeks. I usually had all my books read in 2 or 3 days. Then I usually had them reread in the next 2 or 3 days. Then had the long week wait for the next run. The driver figured out that I was knocking them books out pretty fast. He doubled my allotment. Thx.
Loved reading. Gave me the opportunity to Travel all over the world and thru time to visit all the past civilizations, and the great events and people past and present.
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13 session Bible Study. I've completed 9 sessions. I've been completely humbled. Thought I was an average middle of the road student of the Bible. I'm not even close. Last lesson I had to rate myself on Obedience to God. O being totally disobedient to 10 being Jesus Christ. I rated myself a 2, that would be a D- , I guess. The next question was, How would God rate me. I didn't even answer the question. I plan on finishing the Bible Study and may take this study again next year to improve my score and obedience. Thought I would give report in mid course.
One last class on this Book study. 12 week study time. Their skipping Easter week and having the last class meeting the next week. Good, I may get the chance to finish on time with the guys I started with. Excellent read and study.
I've been enjoying "First 15". It's a daily devotional by Craig Denison. https://www.first15.org/
I stumbled upon the devotional a few weeks ago and have found it uplifting.
Just a short quote from today's...
It's become something I look forward to reading each day.
I stumbled upon the devotional a few weeks ago and have found it uplifting.
Just a short quote from today's...
It's become something I look forward to reading each day.
mikegalbicka
Back in the saddle again
daboo - That's good stuff! Thanks for sharing.
yeehastephen
Member
Picked up Empire of the Summer Moon by Sam Gwynne.
Cynthia Ann and Quanah Parker and Rise and Fall of the Comanche, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history.
Specially interesting because it happened in our backyard. We ride in relative safety now where early Americans feared to tread.
Cynthia Ann and Quanah Parker and Rise and Fall of the Comanche, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history.
Specially interesting because it happened in our backyard. We ride in relative safety now where early Americans feared to tread.
1957mpd
Knight-Errant
"A Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border" by Francisco Cantú - This recently published book by a former CBP Border Patrol agent and Fulbright scholar is a narrative of his experience and reflections upon the challenges on the southwest border. It is told with grace and honor.
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clowry
Active member
I just finished Nobody's Fool, then went on to Everybody's Fool, both by Richard Russo. Set 10 years apart in the same small town with the same cast of characters. Good reads, both.
Looking for something else to catch my attention, but most of my 'reading list' is unavailable on the library app at the moment.
Looking for something else to catch my attention, but most of my 'reading list' is unavailable on the library app at the moment.
mikegalbicka
Back in the saddle again
Ecclesiastes 3
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecc+3&version=NIV
You may know it from The Byrd’s, Turn Turn Turn
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fHvf20Y6eoM
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecc+3&version=NIV
You may know it from The Byrd’s, Turn Turn Turn
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fHvf20Y6eoM
lkraus
New member
The Studs Terkel Reader, by Studs Terkel, sort of a Best of Studs book, with excerpts from many of his books. Part of one interview, with hockey player Eric Nesterenko, struck a chord:
"I still like to skate. One day last year on a cold, clear, crisp afternoon, I saw this huge sheet of ice in the street. Goddamn, if I didn’t drive out there and put on my skates. I took off my camel-hair coat. I was just in a sort of jacket, on my skates. And I flew. Nobody was there. I was free as a bird. I was really happy. That goes back to when I was a kid. I’ll do that until I die, I hope. Oh, I was free!
The wind was blowing from the north. With the wind behind you, you’re in motion, you can wheel and dive and turn, you can lay yourself into impossible angles that you never could walking or running. You lay yourself at a forty-five degree angle, your elbows virtually touching the ice as you’re in a turn. Incredible! It’s beautiful! You’re breaking the bounds of gravity. I have a feeling this is the innate desire of man.
[His eyes are glowing.] I haven’t kept many photographs of myself, but I found one where I’m in full flight. I’m leaning into a turn. You pick up the centrifugal forces and you lay in it. For a few seconds, like a gyroscope, they support you. I’m in full flight and my head is turned. I’m concentrating on something and I’m grinning. That’s the way I like to picture myself. I’m something else there. I’m on another level of existence, just being in pure motion. Going wherever I want to go, whenever I want to go. That’s nice, you know. [Laughs softly.]
Somebody get that man a motorcycle!!!
"I still like to skate. One day last year on a cold, clear, crisp afternoon, I saw this huge sheet of ice in the street. Goddamn, if I didn’t drive out there and put on my skates. I took off my camel-hair coat. I was just in a sort of jacket, on my skates. And I flew. Nobody was there. I was free as a bird. I was really happy. That goes back to when I was a kid. I’ll do that until I die, I hope. Oh, I was free!
The wind was blowing from the north. With the wind behind you, you’re in motion, you can wheel and dive and turn, you can lay yourself into impossible angles that you never could walking or running. You lay yourself at a forty-five degree angle, your elbows virtually touching the ice as you’re in a turn. Incredible! It’s beautiful! You’re breaking the bounds of gravity. I have a feeling this is the innate desire of man.
[His eyes are glowing.] I haven’t kept many photographs of myself, but I found one where I’m in full flight. I’m leaning into a turn. You pick up the centrifugal forces and you lay in it. For a few seconds, like a gyroscope, they support you. I’m in full flight and my head is turned. I’m concentrating on something and I’m grinning. That’s the way I like to picture myself. I’m something else there. I’m on another level of existence, just being in pure motion. Going wherever I want to go, whenever I want to go. That’s nice, you know. [Laughs softly.]
Somebody get that man a motorcycle!!!
Waltersimpson
New member
I just finished The Last Go Around by Ken Kesey
