[stylist] My reading list

Wed Aug 9 08:09:39 UTC 2017

I have a rather ambitious reading list right now. I took the good reads challenge and decided that I would read 100 books this year. I think I am at number 59. I averaged it out at three books a week and that includes children's books
I did read war and peace this year. It took one month finish it. It was the audio copy at about 1382 pages. I'm sure I skipped parts but I like others enjoyed them war parts better than the piece parts although they kind of intersected at times. It was a rather ambitious project and that is for sure
I have read several different types of fiction this year: Christian fiction, romance, political, general, whatever. I generally don't enjoy sci-fi though I haven't given it much of a chance knows I might pick one up somewhere. I've also been reading biographies and books about animals. One thing I have decided to do while I have the time is read my classics hence war and peace. I do not usually read books twice. But I do not put a book down gently because I want to make it to my goal this year. I just finish reading hallelujah anyway rediscovering mercy Byam a month. That was an interesting book. I also finished take this cup the second book in the Jerusalem Chronicles. And I am working on the book about a very famous judge in American history which is quite long. I've been reading more books set during world war one lately. I just finished Pinocchio the original without the Disney additions. That is a really funny book. I have read all the Jerusalem Chronicles now and I like to take this cup the best. It certainly was creative but it had the best descriptions and the least week in characters. The third book behold the man I think is more aboutPilate than anyone and that may be the intention. I didn't see any kind of description about who the main character was  behold the man is the "TripIt it to Pilate when he brought up Jesus after the scourging before the crucifixion and that's OK the book is more aboutPilate. The Brock family and a couple has been writing books for about 20 years about different things and they are very good at what they do so  definitely worth the read.
I did read the sound and the fury and I thought that was really interesting. It's a lot easier to read than you think it's the first two or three chapters that are really difficult because they are written from Benji's perspective. Anyway, there are a lot of books on my list I need to read 40 more books by probably Christmas. If I plan it out I can't do that and finished my third novel. Yes in the middle of reading all these books I am working on my third knob and should have it done here pretty soon. Anyway, that is what me and the cats are doing these days. :-)

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> On Aug 8, 2017, at 9:59 PM, Camille Tate via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I have been writing since I was about 9 or 10 years old. I have also been an
> avid reader. I was reading the New York Times by the time I was 6, with a
> dictionary next to me. According to my family, at 9 months old, I took my
> cousin's Hooked on Phonics and would sit in the corner, trying to "read"! 
> 
> When I lost my vision at 29, I didn't write for a couple of years, while I
> tried to adjust to life as a blind person. Now, I write constantly, even if
> not in my favorite genre, romantic suspense. 
> 
> I love BAARD and am constantly on the hunt for new books and old favorites.
> I don't get to read as many as I'd like, but I go through at least two a
> week, which means I rarely sleep. LOL. 
> 
> I just finished The Guild Hunters, Volume 1 and 2 by Nalini Singh. Great
> urban fantasy fiction. 
> 
> Camille 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Shawn D via stylist
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> 
> Bill
> 
> When I started writing, I tried reading some of the classics.  I read "A
> Tale of Two Cities" (quite good), Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury"
> (couldn't get into it at all), and "War and Peace" (I found very uneaven,
> better in the war scenes than in the peace scenes).
> 
> Anyway, reed on.
> 
> Shawn
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> via stylist
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> Cc: Bill Outman <woutman at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [stylist] My reading list
> 
> I haven't been able to do as much on the writing front lately, but I have
> been making some progress on reading lately.  
> 
> 
> 
> First, let me share the list of books I either have completed reading or are
> in the process of reading since I got started using the BARD Mobile app on
> my iPhone, and then I'll give some explanation afterward.  In my list, *
> indicates I have finished reading the book for the first time.  
> 
> 
> 
> Digital NLS Books 
> 
> 
> 
> *"The Huntress" (biography of Alicia Patterson) 
> 
> *"The Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex: What You Must Know To Be Sexually
> Literate" (1990 edition) 
> 
> *"Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps
> and the Tenth Dimension", Michio Kaku 
> 
> *"Alice In Wonderland/Through The Looking-Glass,"Lewis Carroll 
> 
> *"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(w. explanatory notes & original manuscript
> material)", Mark Twain 
> 
> *"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Mark Twain 
> 
> "Gone With The Wind", Margaret Mitchell 
> 
> "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus", John Gray 
> 
> 
> 
> .         * indicates I have finished reading this book 
> 
> .         The first one on my list, The Huntress, was something I wasn't
> interested in when I first got it, as it was something my local talking book
> library helped me get just to practice getting a book and navigating the
> app.  It turned out, however, to be of interest to me given my northern
> Illinois roots, given the fact the subject of the biography, Alicia
> Patterson, was part of the family that once owned the Chicago Tribune, so
> the story filled in more history of the area I didn't fully know.  
> 
> 
> 
> The Kinsey book on sexuality has been essential reading for me, as there are
> aspects of the issue of sexuality that I didn't learn in my youth, partially
> as it wasn't properly taught to me in the schools for blind, in part due to
> administration's belief I couldn't handle it and other improper attitude
> issues that existed that I could go into more detail about later if anyone
> is interested.  Had the issue been faced correctly in my teens, it would
> have saved a lot of trouble concerning how I deal with relationships, and
> I'd be in a better place in my life now, rather than being being in my early
> 50s and still feeling I've experienced some arrested development.  
> 
> 
> 
> Perhaps on a certain level there was also the assumption I already
> understood the sexual issue adequately and was merely misbehaving purposely,
> as my academics were very strong, so the physics book on hyperspace by
> Michio Kaku is an example of something I can somewhat absorb, even though
> many might not dare go near such a thing.  Some of the descriptions about
> our ability, or more correctly, inability to perceive extra dimensions gave
> me more insight into my feelings about first being born totally blind, then
> having some vision due to operations on my eyes, and then facingtotal
> blindness again due to disease of the eyes.  He quotes one perception
> analogy about hyperspace that discusses blindness and perception and
> understanding of color.  The analogy only holds if the blind person had
> never had vision.  I can't fault him for not having full understanding of
> this, as it wasn't really the point he was trying to get across.
> Nonetheless the book was fascinating to me as such fields as physics and
> astronomy have always interested me.  
> 
> 
> 
> The reading of the Lewis Carroll double volume grew out of the Kaku book, as
> he cited some of the descriptions in it as apt for understanding the concept
> of multiple universes.  The initial rabbit hole scene somewhat resembles
> what it might be like to traverse an Einstein-Rosen wormhole bridge, if that
> is in fact possible.  
> 
> 
> 
> I then began thinking about how I have been lacking in my reading of the
> classics, especially fiction.  There have been a number of reasons for this.
> They include the fact my life hasn't been anything of a fairy tale existence
> facing disability from birth, despite growing up fairly middle class.  I
> also felt pressure due to my Christian beliefs about the morality of
> enjoying and partaking in certain types of culture, including literary
> fiction.  
> 
> 
> 
> I first started with Huckleberry Finn, and made note of its treatment of our
> history with religious and racial issues.  It is fascinating to get
> something told in the local vernacular.  One aspect of relationships
> described in Huck Finn was the case of the young lady taking the initiative
> to get Huck to fetch her Bible; it was a ruse to establish another meeting.
> Of course it was unusual in that time for a woman to be that forward.  
> 
> 
> 
> I then felt the need to read Tom Sawyer.  One of the most interesting things
> was finding inspiration for prayer, taking after the model described when
> the local church service was described.  We still have issues sometimes with
> the command performance aspects of faith that were described.  It was also
> interesting to look at how young romance was pursued at that time.  
> 
> 
> 
> I have just started Gone With The Wind, and am looking forward to a more
> in-depth treatment of romance.  As you can tell I haven't had much practical
> education on this, to my detriment.  
> 
> 
> 
> To that end, I also down loaded Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus in
> order to get some more practical information for today on this matter.  
> 
> 
> 
> So there you have it, my summer reading list to date.  
> 
> 
> 
> Bill Outman 
> 
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> 
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