WHAT have you finished reading recently? Roswell High: The Vanished.
WHAT are you reading now? Still making good progress through A Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson. Politics is only a small part of the book, as it’s more of a broad cultural history.
When the revivalist Jesse Lee was asked by two lawyers if he ever misquoted the Bible in his unscripted sermons and had to correct himself, Lee admitted he often made a mistake but did not correct it “if it involves nothing essential.” He gave a pointed example: “The other day I tried to repeat the passage where it says the Devil ‘is a liar, and the father of them’; I got it, ‘The Devil is a lawyer, and the father of them’; but I hardly thought it necessary to rectify so unimportant an error.”
WHAT are you reading next? More Roswell.
Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is books we had to read for school and didn’t like. That one is challenging, because I don’t especially remember the books I didn’t like. I was a big reader as a kid, and even when we were given something that was outside of my usual scope (The Island of the Blue Dolphins, say), I still found some way to enjoy it. College was different, as I was assigned things like The Nazi Germany Sourcebook for classes like a survey of German history, or novels I didn’t understand at the time like Kokoro and The Leopard. Now, I suspect I would get far more out of the novels.
Reading Freely 
I didn’t like The Lord of the Flies when I read it for school and remembering the plot now still makes me feel uneasy. I might re-read it, see if forty years between reads makes a difference!
You didn’t care for Island of the Blue Dolphins? Man, Scott O’Dell was a staple for me in elementary school 😀
I think I liked it! It was just very different from anything else I’d read!
I think our teacher read us The Black Pearl and I was hooked on him. Read all that our small library had.
I recently re-read the Black Pearl (well, ’19) and man, I still gave it 5 stars 😀
I could only remember one book I didn’t like. Of Mice and Men.
That one is sad!
I liked The Island of the Blue Dolphins.
I remember so little about it now, but it still lingers in my memory!
I liked The Island of the Blue Dolphins.
I haven’t read the Roswell you are refering to, but I’d like to try The Road to Roswell, by Connie Willis
Last book I finished: The Manhood of Edward Robinson (from The Listerdale Mystery, by Agatha Christie
Am reading: The Last Express (Duncan Maclain Mystery #1), by Baynard H. Kendrick
Am listening to: The Man Who Fell to Earth, by Walter Tevis
Reading next: White Pine, by Mary Oliver
Ooh, a Mary Oliver collection! Do you read poetry anthologies altogether, or a bit at a time?
Altogether, like another book, as I get them from my public library. Plus there’s often a unity to the volume. I’ve been doing this with her poetry collection as chronologically published, since January of this year
There are some books I think I would have liked as I got older as well. High school was a tough time, and we struggled through some less than wonderful books.
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