What are you reading?

Speaking of hitchhiking; John Waters wrote a book about thumbing his way across the USA.

For an "on the road" book, I personally prefer Kerouac.

But, I did enjoy it. Sort of.

Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America by John Waters | Goodreads

 

I think it has more to do with the fact that Catholic schools aren't free rather than the flavor of the religion or whether or not some penguin is whapping your knuckles or having you kneel on rice.

In my family we have educators in public and private (Christian) schools.
I think that education outcome differences lie mostly in the fact that private schools have the option of "asking" disruptive students to seek other education opportunities.
It's not a completely fair or unbiased world and there are statistical outliers.
In my beloved home state of Indiana some of the very old and expensive Catholic schools are....um.....'bending the rules' where certain athletically gifted students or wealthy relatives are involved.
Usually, the more 'disadvantaged' students in a private schools locally are either funded co-funded by grandparents - for all of the obvious reasons.
In the Deep South it is still not unheard of in some private schools for the "board of education" to be applied to the "seat of knowledge."
In the Year of our Lord 2025, you just have to do a little paperwork first.


SO,
Back to reading......
I've still failed to summit "Pride and Prejudice."

Just Finished:

Not sure about Jim Stavridis as an Admiral, but he's a fine author.


Nearly Finished:

Not as far-fetched as one might imagine at first glance.
Nuclear Weapons Program - Japan.


On-deck:

 

But you've made it to base camp?

 

It's loaded on my phone.

I also have a Sherpa.....
Austen for Dummies

 

Audio version:

First tune in my list of favorites:

Bob Wilson

 

a tale of two cities. dickens was a bit wordy in this one. i had read the abridged version, and wanted to see the difference

 

I have it on my phone but I haven't finished it yet.
Chuck did 'write by the pound.' um....as it were.

 

naturally, my first exposure was a christmas carol, which i thought was quite thrifty

 

Ah.
Good point.
A Christmas Carol is a 'novella' technically but it was less than 200 printed pages in the first edition.

I'm number 3,456 in the "on hold" listing for this:


Normally there would be about as much 'truth' in a Tapper book as there was in Clinton's autobiography - but he is taking an intense amount of 'friendly fire' for this book, which gives me pause.

I certainly will not be BUYING this book but it's amusing to me that it was available in the military lending library 'left of bang.'

I was just kidding BTW.
I'm actually 37th in line for the one copy with 93 others waiting - so it will be 'several months' before I get to pick through the book, and by then it will have been given "the full treatment" and there will be little to be gained from reading it.

I WILL give Tapper credit for one thing.
He supports the military - and he does not take much credit for doing so.
IYKYK

(Hey Jake! If you hear about us here in PC How about kicking over a few more copies to the DoD library, huh? )


*&$#@! Libby App!!

 

"Think Like a Monk"

Following up after I read.
"Mindfulness in Plain English"
and
"Rewire your anxious Brain"

 

MAD magazine.

I pulled out an old box. And I mean old. One issue has a parody of JFK.

 

i've read a few articles on this book. it is very sad, but emblematic of us politics

 

fascinating, and very entertaining

 

Not much into traditional "chick" literature -- I can say chick lit -- you guys can't, life is unfair

Anyway, a friend convinced me to read Ann Patchett's "Dutch House."

Story of a family's multigenerational life in the house. A great book for any gender. Not a female-targeted read.
kris

 

Noted.
Here's mine....


75% of the way through the book.
Never watched the movie.

Written in 1962, the novel is very compelling to me - but then I'm a squid and a history dork.....
The movie was filmed in 1966 and seems to have aged well, and I will watch it as soon as I find out what happens to Jake.

 

Chick lit chick lit chick lit chick lit chick lit.

 

She's lit?

 

i read this a couple years ago. interesting to a point, but a very strange story about a very disfunctional family, with a couple odd twists and strange moments.
i asked mrs b to read it to see if it was me, but she agreed with me.
perhps we haven't experienced enough disfunctionality, or maybe too much?

 

Yes, it's O.K. for you. ChapmanF is short for Chapman Female, correct?

Well, yes, the book is as Bisco notes, but isn't dysfunctional the new functional?
kris

 

Maybe it's sort of like being a grad student on an assistantship: whenever it's to your advantage to be a student, you're considered staff, and whenever it would be advantageous to be staff, you're a student.