chuckwolfe.bsky.social
I’m just zis guy, you know?
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To read fewer books in ‘25. In ‘23 I read 111, tried to read fewer in ‘24, but ended with 114 despite my efforts. I refrained from reading on 12/31 to keep under the 115 mark, finishing the book on the 1/1 instead. I love reading, but I need to start getting other things done as well.
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Yes!
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I’m a man of simple tastes. I prefer mine weak and full of booze. I also like mine ground up and kept in the freezer.
We’re just talking about coffee, right?
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As a reading teacher, I’ve often found it’s the slow readers who comprehend the most. Don’t give up!
Easy fantasy read with dragons & no spice from a well known author:
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Not a fear per se, but more of a disinclination to do so. For example, I had neither a want nor a need to read Nabokov’s Lolita until someone told me that nobody should, only then did I feel that I must.
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It’s reverse psychology for me. I didn’t want to look in the cookie jar until someone said “don’t look in the cookie jar”. Now I really want to peek in the cookie jar!
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So…is it just lecterns? Or does your blood boil when you hear people call initialisms acronyms as well?
“ATM” and “CIA” are not acronyms people! “Onym” = name/word
Root words help us understand our language as well as others!
“Lect” is to choose, gather, & read.
“Pod” = foot.
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Psst, I think most of you are confusing initialisms for acronyms. An acronym must spell a word. The root word “nym” means “name” or “word” like synonym & pseudonym. Things like “FBI” and “ATM” are not acronyms but initialisms.
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More than once I’ve waited months for a library book only to finally receive it and get a few chapters in before realizing I’ve already read this one and forgotten about it.
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And I’m listening via headphones in a very public place and I can just tell that everyone can sense me blushing on the inside. (Okay, maybe on the outside as well.)
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She’s such a control freak, yet so fucking subtle about it. Definitely in my top 5 WOT characters!
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My best friend asked me to stop talking to his wife (also my friend) about books because unlike his wife and me, he’s not a reader and when we get all giddy about a book, he feels left out. His wife and I are still working on his request to no avail.
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Watched the movie first, then read it and realized the movie was shit! I made a point to queue up and listen to every song Matheson mentions in the text while I read it.
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I’m weary to hop on board with this. Yes, the Hobbit was overkill, but LOTR trilogy wasn’t and it was originally supposed to be one epic novel. Though I like the newer trend of turning beefier novels into a series of shows instead of movies.
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Unless I plan on a rereading, I often donate or permanently lend my books to others. A book does no good collecting dust on my shelf as a decorative piece. They’re meant to be read over and over again. I’ve found that schools are great places to store books that you don’t plan on revisiting.
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Ugh! This isn’t MT, it’s Christian Nestell Bovee. Please stop falsely accrediting this to Twain. I love Twain, but he never uttered this quote.
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I was never into playing video games solo, so these two saw a lot of multiplayer play time!
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I politely disagree. I place the fault on the 49.9% of Americans who backed him up, accepted & regurgitated his nonsense, and paved the road for a megalomaniac to make decisions for an entire nation of peoples.
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So….you still get to keep both hands, right? I mean, I met a lady once with two hands and no arms. She was extremely dexterous. True story!
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Never!
Though admittedly I make homemade “oatmeal breakfast bars” that are basically chocolate chip cookie bars that replace flour with oatmeal and sugar with honey. At least they’re better for me than donuts or pancakes drowning in butter and sugary syrup. Or so I like to tell myself.
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Hardest to comprehend: In Watermelon Sugar
Hardest to stomach: Tender is the Flesh
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I always pick music that won’t distract me from my reading (I can’t get too into the music.) The first time I read Matheson’s I am legend, every time he mentioned a song, I’d cue it up. Now, whenever an author mentions a specific song or artist, I feel compelled to play it before continuing on.
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I could care less how one chooses to ingest a book.
Except for those who prefer the abridged versions. Those people are absolute monsters!
I had someone try to push Blinkist on me the other day and I threw up in my mouth a little once they explained to me the function of the app.
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I get keeping certain books off of school book shelves. For example, I teach 8th grade ELA and wouldn’t dream of putting my copy of Nabokov’s Lolita on my shelf or even Yarros’ Fourth Wing on there. However, if a student checked it out via the public library, I wouldn’t stop them from reading it.
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Christian Nestell Bovee. The quote is taken from his Thoughts, Feelings, & Fancies (1857).
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Exactly!
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I work with 10-15 year olds and hear “I hate reading” all too often.
Every time, I swear I feel a pain in my heart and then make it my mission to change their mind.
We need more people reading to kids, reading alongside kids, and listening to kids if they choose to read aloud.
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I’m thankful the Patriot act has since phased out, but Library records can still be accessed with a court order, so we’re only as safe as our courts keep us. Scarily, our courts haven’t doing the best job of protecting our freedoms as of late.
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Libraries still track, I’ve recently requested my reading log from my local library and was directed to a link on my library’s website that listed everything I’ve ever checked out. The passing of the Freedom Act helped with privacy in regards to the FBI, but can still be accessed with a subpoena.
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I’d have to side with Thoreau’s essay on Civil Disobedience when he says, “It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience."
Therefore, a corporation is neither good nor evil. Only humans can hold that torch.
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Nothing new. Libraries have always tracked people’s reading habits; however, in most jurisdictions, a court order would be needed before the government could look into said habits. At least for now It’s not open to public or large corporations. Who knows what our up and coming government will do.
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It’s actually a quote from another 19th century American author, Christian Nestell Bovee. The quote is taken from his Thoughts, Feelings, & Fancies (1857).
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Religions are a lot like wieners.
A bunch of people have one (like almost half) and it’s totally okay to be proud of it. You just can’t go around waving it in other people’s faces. That’s just rude and indecorous.