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Posts Tagged with Reading

Soul Vs. Meat

My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.

Kurt Vonnegut - Bluebeard

Where Should I Start?

As my themeword for 2008 is Explore (other people’s choices are interesting too), I am kicking off a new series: Where Should I Start. The premise is a simple one, ask or answer a question that starts with “If I wanted to [read/listen…

Where it Takes You

So I want to take this opportunity to offer some liberating words to those of you who claim you don’t have the attention span or the time or the interest to finish a book: Fuck finishing. Start and see where…

A Long Way Gone

A Long Way Gone by Ismael Beah at Amazon.com Growing up in the safe confines of the middle-class womb here in the U.S., it is easy to lose sight of the larger world around me. While I count myself a student of history and a constant consumer of information,…