Isa's Homestead Happenings and Hangout

[sdm111]

hey, great job on the ignore there, team.

really well done by everyone.

I put the I in team

 

[Meri Maura]

Granted, I did try to read it in the third grade. My reading level was like a 12.5. The librarian would bring me books from the public library so I'd have something to read since I couldn't read Hank the Cowdog and The Boxcar Children with the rest of the less intellectual students.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

hey, great job on the ignore there, team.

really well done by everyone.

To which part?

 

[Meri Maura]

Granted, I did try to read it in the third grade. My reading level was like a 12.5. The librarian would bring me books from the public library so I'd have something to read since I couldn't read Hank the Cowdog and The Boxcar Children with the rest of the less intellectual students.

Why not 12.9?!

 

[Aunt Angus]

Horrible. Will never read it. It is the dryest, most boring, horrible writing. If I wanted to read an entire paragraph about him pulling out his worn, brown leather wallet, cracked with age, pieces flaking off as he opened it to pull out a wrinkled note, soiled with filth from a brothel, and some other such nonsense I'd read my own flowery writing. Instead, I write it and curse the public at general to enjoy it.

I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it. I really dug the way Melville used whaling and the technology thereof as a parallel for.... Nvm. My geek is showing.

That book was one that changed my life. That, The Silmarillion, Dune, Lonesome Dove, Watership Down, Beowulf, the Bhagavad Gita, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Phantom Tollbooth. And I teach British lit now, but my baby will always be American lit. Moby Dick is a seminal work in that canon (that was like a triple pun).

 

[Brooks_]

Granted, I did try to read it in the third grade. My reading level was like a 12.5. The librarian would bring me books from the public library so I'd have something to read since I couldn't read Hank the Cowdog and The Boxcar Children with the rest of the less intellectual students.

What? It's a meme!

 

[Isadora]

Funny coincidence -

Hubby and I drove to the Bay Area to see a concert back in the 90's, and we got there early because Bay Area traffic is a nightmare, so you have to leave super early so as not to hit a rush hour. We stopped at a coffee shop near the venue because we had 3 hours to spare. I took out my copy of Moby Dick. After a few minutes, I looked up and asked hubby:

Me: "What's the name of this coffee shop?"
Hubby: "Starbucks."
Me:

It was the very first Starbucks I'd been to (they were pretty new around here at that time), and I happened to be reading Moby Dick.

That's a cool coincidence.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I was always more into the fantasy stuff. I could do big, thick books of magic (other than potter), but I just can't get past dense paragraphs of dry boring.

 

[DickMidnight]

Bhagavad Gita

more people need to read this.

 

[Meri Maura]

Ha to which part?