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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 07-10-2022 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]![]() (click on the image above to see the outside) Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, poach some eggs, and crack open a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning? PIC NOTE The Thomas Fischer Rare Book Library is located at the University of Toronto in Canada. It houses a massive repository of rare books and manuscripts. At the moment it looks like you would need to schedule a "research appointment" in order to visit the collection. THE PATH TO READING... Last week, CBD posed the following question: That might be a fun stand-alone thread: Who was the first author who piqued your interest? This made me wonder: How did I start down the path of becoming a lifelong reader? My mother taught me to read from a young age, so in that sense I suppose my destiny was always to become a lifelong reader. Among my earliest memories of reading is checking out Dr. Seuss books from the library. From there, I moved up to fare such as The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis and The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. However, I'd say the real catalyst to me becoming a reader would be my fascination with ghost stories. I read those before I ever started reading fantasy and science fiction. I also read a lot of Alfred Hitchcock anthologies of suspense stories when I was a kid, because those stories also fascinated me, even if they didn't have any supernatural elements (a lot of them did, though). Then things just sort of snowballed into my lifelong passion for reading. I think the key to becoming a lifelong reader, other than starting early, is to find a subject about which you are truly passionate. It doesn't have to be fiction. We have a lot of readers on this blog who are extremely fascinated by military history, for instance. Even technical manuals have their charm for some folks. Authors sometimes describe their own journeys to becoming a lifelong reader. This often gives quite a bit of context to their stories when you see who influenced them in their writing. For instance, just the other day, I was reading the foreward to Philip Jose Farmer's The World of Tiers series on my Kindle and came across this passage: I search my memory, scan the banks, for why I allotted certain levels of the tiered planet to certain people. Wht did I make the lowest level a paradise, albeit a stultifying one, for beings from ancient Greek mythology and from Homer? Because, I believe, I encountered Homer when I was three years old and never lost interest in him. When I was living in the second story of an apartment building in Indianapolis, the little girl I played with let me look through her parents' library on the ground floor. I came across The Iliad and The Odyssey, both profusely illustrated with black-and-white drawings based on painting from Greek vases. The titles meant nothing to me (I couldn't read, of course), but the girl's father told me they were pictures about the war at Troy and Ulysses' adventures after the war. I never forgot the illustrations or his words. What was YOUR first step into the wider world of reading? ![]() (Be honest: Who hasn't had this experience?) BOOKS BY MORONS Dana ("Secret Squirrel") Epperson sent me the following:
Comment: Always nice to know that there is still good, wholesome family entertainment available. Any Morons out there with kids or grandkids should definitely check these out! MORON RECOMMENDATIONS I just finished Red Horizens, Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief that I highly recommend, written by Ion Mihai Pacepa. He was the highest ranking defector, at that time, of a communist country and immigrated to the United States in '78. His story is fascinating. He was literally a right hand man, the highest of advisors, to Romania's dictator president Nicolae Ceausescu and his ghastly wife, Elena. Comment: The story of Ceausescu should be a warning to our elites. But of course it's not. They seem to be "all in" on going down that path... Also, I've been thinking about reading Uncle Tom's Cabin here lately. Heard the Warrant song on my streaming service and felt guilty for not actually reading that back in high school when I was supposed to. Mostly feel bad because I really liked and respected the teacher who assigned, but hey, I was a dumb teenager. Comment: Uncle Tom's Cabin is one those American classics that everyone should read...And I confess that I have not read it. Fortunately, that's easily rectified, thanks to the fact that this book is in the public domain and readily available online: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/203 Hello Book Thread Coordinator, Comment: It's thanks to Cecilia's doctoral thesis that we now know that stars are mainly composed of hydrogen and helium. This was an idea rejected at the time, but then proved correct later. Science Marches On, after all. In other words, she challenged the scientific consensus at the time (1920s) and ultimately won because observations agreed with her theories. Funny how that works... Lots of sitting around doing nothing. Re-reading Savage Grace by Natalie Robins and Steve Aronson about the murder of Barbara Baekeland by her son Antony, great-grandson of the inventor of Bakelite. Comment: Hmmm. Maybe we should have a contest to see which family is worse: The Baeklands or the Bidens... More Moron-recommended reading material can be found HERE! (274 Moron-recommended books so far!) WHAT I'VE BEEN READING THIS PAST WEEK:
That's about all I have for this week. Thank you for all of your kind words regarding my Sunday Morning Book Thread. This is a very special place. You are very special people (in all the best ways!). The kindness, generosity, and wisdom of the Moron Horde knows no bounds. Let's keep reading! If you have any suggestions for improvement, reading recommendations, or writing projects that you'd like to see on the Sunday Morning Book Thread, you can send them to perfessor dot squirrel at-sign gmail dot com. Your feedback is always appreciated! You can also take a virtual tour of OUR library at libib.com/u/perfessorsquirrel. Since I added sections for AoSHQ, I now consider it OUR library, rather than my own personal fiefdom... PREVIOUS SUNDAY MORNING BOOK THREAD - 07-03-22 (hat tip: vmom stabby stabby stabamillion) (NOTE: Do NOT comment on old threads!) ![]() | Recent Comments
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