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Wonderful.
Stories with ideas you don't just consider for a moment, but return to again and again.
What if you could remember your future? What if belief is not just a psychological violence but a physical one as well?
If I knew this, I'd forgotten it, so I was happy to discover that the story “Story of Your Life,” was the basis for the film “Arrival.” Probably my favorite film of the last few years. Imagine a language that requires knowledge of the future in order to be properly contextualized.
Loved it.
Better late than never getting to it. A masterpiece. I wish I had read it sooner.
“But even when we had the books on hand, a long time ago, we didn't use what we got out of them. We went right on insulting the dead. We went right on spitting in the graves of all the poor ones who died before us.”
I'm beginning to feel a bit like a “former person” myself these days. So grateful for this book's example of how gentility can be more than an assumed affect.
It turns out histrionic swooning causes pregnancy. I did not know that before I read this book.
My father once made a gift of this book to me, and I still remember being transformed by the beauty of it.
I lost the original copy he gave me, but I was able to replace it today.
Last week I re-read Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. It fits in with a recent inclination to read personal accounts by gifted observers of the natural world. Writing by Thoreau, Annie Dillard, John McPhee (Encounters With the Archdruid is a wonderful book) has gotten me through another lonely winter.
Excellent. Like taking an independent study course with with the prof whose classes are always full.
For those with limited reading time, another short but wonderful book about cultural identity and living ‘closer to the bone,' is Margaret Craven's I Heard the Owl Call My Name (1967.)
I read it a couple of weeks ago on the plane returning from California. The more I read, the tinier the plane's cabin became. British Columbia here I come.
A great book for novices but worth the read for aficionados as well. I enjoy discovering what others find interesting about the things I love.
Gioia's knowledge of jazz is boundless, but it's his love and enthusiasm for the music that shines through here.
Most of the books on my GR read list receive high rankings because if I am not enjoying a book I simply stop reading it.
I enjoyed reading this book. I learned from reading this book. I was motivated and inspired by reading this book.
I have just finished reading and enjoying The Sun Temple by novelist Brian Spaeth.
Cannabis induced gradients of experience and perception surrounding walking excursions to The Battery. An ebb and flow of a euphoric paranoia that will let you share a re-imagining of what might have seemed a familiar place.
Of appeal to a niche audience at this point. I'm in that niche.
Many of the performers mentioned in this book were still alive when became a jazz lover and I was fortunate to get to hear them. I enjoyed the addition of context to my memories of them performing late in their careers.
These poems indict us and our culture, but are at the same time so sympathetic to our plight they still come across as restorative.
It seems one can be curmudgeonly and yet deeply thoughtful in the same set of stanzas.
An extremely rewarding read. Weston's walk was an incredible achievement and reading about it is fascinating, but the real reward of this book is the wealth of information about the relationship between the geography of our built environment, the automobile, and our own two feet.
Doesn't include much info on using _components/_partials (project organization,) but highly informative on the mechanics and functionality of SASS. Clearly organized and full of excellent, practical examples.
