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August 21, 2022
Sunday Morning Book Thread - 08-21-2022 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading. Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material, even if it's nothing more than Liz Cheney's "concession" speech. As always, pants are required, especially if you are wearing these pants...(great for the end of summer) So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, tuck into that quiche, and crack open a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning? Today's pic came to me courtesy of KT (who provides most of the content on the Saturday threads until the afternoon Hobby Thread). KT sent me several different pics of the Livaria Lello bookstore in Porto, Portugal. It looks like it's quite a happening place. Lots of local events and lines out the door to get in. Salman Rushdie was scheduled to visit in early September, but I suspect that event is probably going to be canceled. The storefront is a rather modest, yet beautifully decorated façade. The interior is quite deep and contains its famous red staircase. EDUCATIONAL PRIMERS Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing sent me the following email, based on a comment he made in a thread: Perfessor, The excerpt above paints a very rosy picture of government and the citizen's role within the state. If everything worked as intended, this might be enough. There was a time when kids were taught at a very basic age to have a healthy respect of government institutions, as well as their rights and responsibilities as citizens of the United States of America. Educational primers as a genre have been around for a long, long time (centuries). According to this article, primers have been around since the 15th or 16th century. The intent seems to have been to develop children into good, moral, and responsible adults, according to the Judeo-Christian values prevalent in Europe at the time. Perhaps the most famous primers is The New England Primer, which was first published in the American Colonies. I love this quote from The Eclectic First Reader: "[g]reat pains have been taken to select Lessons in which the language is simple, and the subjects interesting and natural to childhood; as we have learned from actual experience, that a child's progress is more rapid when the subjects are agreeable, and he can understand the terms in which they are conveyed." (p. 5.) Although we usually associate primers with reading and vocabulary skills, they can be used for virtually any subject as a primer is just the foundational knowledge within a discipline. A chemistry book that introduces students to the periodic table is a primer, for instance, since understanding the periodic table is the bedrock upon which modern chemistry is built. A lurker sent me some images from McGuffey's Eclectic Reader, one of the most famous primers around: What would an AoSHQ Primer look like? What sort of content should be included? Should we write one? We could probably put together a kickass book of language skills, civics, science, and much, much more. FEATURED MORON REVIEW Since I don't have any Books by Morons this week, I thought I'd try something a little different. Moronette March Hare sent me the following review of a book mentioned by a Moron: One of the books mentioned by the Morons is O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life. Arlyn and Matthew Bruccoli used the original manuscripts, both typewritten and handwritten, that Thomas Wolfe submitted to Maxwell Perkins at Charles Scribner's Sons. Mr. Perkins worked with Mr. Wolfe to refashion the manuscript into Look Homeward, Angel. Mr. Perkins' edits changed the focus of the novel from an epic of the Gant Family to the life of Eugene Gant, the youngest son and the stand-in for Thomas Wolfe himself. If you would like to write a review of a Moron-written book or a Moron-recommended book, feel free to do so. I can't promise I'll post them all if I get a lot of them, but sometimes it's nice to have a review of one of these books that's a bit longer than the comments will normally allow. MORON RECOMMENDATIONS I started to re-read The Screwtape letters but had to put it back on the shelf. Like parts of Lewis' That Hideous Strength, the cynical evil it deals with is too close to our current situation. I read for many reasons but reinforcing the rage I feel about the cultural corruption and nihilism inundating us isn't one of them. I'll read them some other day. Comment: When it comes to understanding the nature of evil, C.S. Lewis was exceptionally perceptive. In work after work, he just nails tha banality of evil and how it can manifest here on earth. I read That Hideous Strength during the height of the pandemic (early 2021) and was freaked out by just how accurately it portrayed the mindset of the evil we are facing today, even though it was written many decades ago. Finally taking a break from all things China. I picked up two different editions of Small Arms of the World (9th and 12th) because they are very different in focus. Comment: I tend to categorize these types of books as "reference" material. And yes, they can be very fun to read because you can bounce around from entry to entry, almost like a "choose your own adventure" book. I am reading Don't Go to College: A Case for Revolution by Michael J. Robillard and Timothy J. Gordon. Comment: A couple of high school kids were part of the crew that put a new roof on my house this summer. They worked just as hard as the more seasoned members. I think they would both do better to learn the contracting trade than going to college these days unless they want to pursue an engineering degree (I work at a STEM institution). There's a book published back in '60 or '61 if memory serves -- The Priceless Gift, by Cornelius Hirschberg. The guy wanted a good college education, but circumstances kept him from being able to do that. So he decided to get that education through independent reading. He wanted to cover it all, literature, math, history, the sciences... He didn't know that only Isaac Asimov could cover that much ground, and not knowing it couldn't be done, he went and did it. The Priceless Gift told how he did it, how he approached the subjects, & what books he used (a lot of 'em still available). If I ran the world, it would be required reading in high school, but it's long out of print. Comment: The ability to read truly is a priceless gift we can give our children and grandchildren. In grad school, I read some anecdotes about illiterate (or nearly so) adults who were able to finally learn to read. They wept with joy when they discovered whole new worlds opened up to them. It's criminal (and evil) that so many students in school are being denied this priceless gift by groomers who only see their students as prey for their sexual deviancies. More Moron-recommended reading material can be found HERE! (357 Moron-recommended books so far!) WHAT I'VE BEEN READING THIS PAST WEEK: All of the books in the list below are part of my continuing effort to whittle down my TBR pile from my epic library book hauls earlier this year. Still got a long way to go!
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 - 08-14-22 (hat tip: vmom stabby stabby stabamillion) (NOTE: Do NOT comment on old threads!) | Recent Comments
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