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Some Thoughts On Reading From Various Authors

Some Thoughts On Reading From Various Authors

“I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.”

Woodrow Wilson

“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”

P.J. O’Rourke

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”

Maya Angelou

“Keep reading books, but remember that…

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Some Thoughts On Books From Various Authors

Some Thoughts On Books From Various Authors

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

Neil Gaiman

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

Oscar Wilde

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry…

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Some Thoughts On Reading From Various Authors

Some Thoughts On Reading From Various Authors

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

Oscar Wilde

“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”

Oscar Wilde

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”

Charles William Eliot

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Currently Analytically Reading: Antifragile By Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Currently Analytically Reading: Antifragile By Nassim Nicholas Taleb

This is most likely the third time I have read this book and there is so much to glean from it that I will most likely read it a fourth time in the future. This time I am reading it for more insight in looking at problems that are presented to me and their solutions (if there is one).

I am learning that I must sharpen my questions if I am going to come to a better understanding of what I am…

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Book Of Interest: The Bad-Ass Librarians Of Timbuktu By Joshua Hammer

Book Of Interest: The Bad-Ass Librarians Of Timbuktu By Joshua Hammer

The Bad-Ass Librarians Of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer tells the the story of how hundreds of thousands of ancient texts were rescued in 2012 from almost being destroyed by jihadists in Mali. See below for a partial photograph of these documents:

These documents give the reader a taste of what Timbuktu and this region once was. This book is more than just a retelling of the escape of these…

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Book Of Interest: In A Different Key: The Story Of Autism by John Donvan and Caren Zucker

Book Of Interest: In A Different Key: The Story Of Autism by John Donvan and Caren Zucker

In A Different Key: The Story Of Autismby John Donvan and Caren Zucker tells a tight-knit story of the misunderstanding of autism and its discovery over seventy-five years with the diagnosis of Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi. The book explores the political battles as well as the shame that families went through and are still going through. Families are faced with finding a place in the…

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Book Of Interest: Schools On Trial By Nikhil Goyal

Book Of Interest: Schools On Trial By Nikhil Goyal

Book Of Interest: Schools On Trial By Nikhil Goyal

Schools On Trial by twenty year old Nikhal Goyal attacks how we are using the principle of teach to the test and are stifling our student’s creativity and freedom to learn because of it. He prescribes taking the common sense approach of using a student’s gifts and applying them to their drive and passion in maximizing learning.

He explores, at…

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Some Thoughts On Various Subjects From Everett Ruess

Some Thoughts On Various Subjects From Everett Ruess

I ran across these in reading Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts and I found them very thought-provoking. Pretty amazing for a teenager!!!

“All accomplished works or deeds perish or are forgotten eventually. No love lives forever, and no two can completely understand one another, or if they do, it kills their love.”

Everett Ruess

“For to think is the beginning of death.”

Everett Ruess

Beauty…

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