Well excuse the hell outta me ...
Just before those, I read John McWhorter's Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue. If you enjoy histories of English, this one is different -- I'd even say better -- than others.
Well excuse the hell outta me ...
Just before those, I read John McWhorter's Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue. If you enjoy histories of English, this one is different -- I'd even say better -- than others.
That looks interesting. I may have to look into it. I like reading about how jacked up our dumb language is.
And I mostly just wanted to brag about how hipster BB&B was in regard to The Hunger Games. We liked it back before it was a movie. :icon_wink: Plus, this way I also get to brag about knowing someone who was in the movie.
Well that would help (just about anything), but the stories I read were just kind of uninteresting. Very flowery 19th century description, but without enough story to make it worth it. Similar to the worst Poe stuff.
But it was just a random collection of stories. I'm going to give the Princess and the Goblin a chance (my library system doesn't seem to have The Golden Key).
The Art of Intelligence lessons from a life in the CIA by Henry Crumpton.
I just started this the other night.
But I'm also back into Vanished Kingdoms and started The Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas and a random Dave Barry book, too. We'll see which one gets read first.
My new avatar references George Mann's A Song of Fire and Ice saga, which I've gotten way too into.
Darn you HBO!
i finished till we have faces and thought it was excellent. i don't know why it was so hard for me to get into it the first time.
just started george mcdondald's phantastes. i can definitely tell where lewis and tolkien drew from him. it's a pretty fast read for 19th century romantic lit. i may read the princess and the goblin later, but i'm thinking i need to work in some non-fiction in the meantime.
on another note, my son just started reading i robot. i'll make a nerd of him yet...
I need to learn...I'm reading a Linux book :S