tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024348901961505093.post6779926723294843250..comments2023-10-23T14:53:35.408-05:00Comments on Underlined and Bold: Day 22: Chicago Summer Solstice CountdownAbigail Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09935818594396207981noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024348901961505093.post-92205341237817695912011-06-16T09:22:22.399-05:002011-06-16T09:22:22.399-05:00Love the comments!
Ender's Game was one of m...Love the comments! <br /><br />Ender's Game was one of my favorite books I read in high school. I reread it about a year ago and didn't love it quite as much. I was a bit sad about that since I had a great attachment to it. As for the sequels... I never read them because people so often told me they were horrible. People told me I shouldn't ruin the magic of the 1st book. I have a feeling I have a date with the sequels at some point in time despite those comments... I'll have to get your opinion on those Jonas. <br /><br />Chris, so far I'm enjoying Dandelion Wine. I'm amazed at how someone can describe summer so vividly. I almost wish I had read it before I started this countdown because I think I would have some different ideas and language I would use in my posts. Also-- I'm hoping to start reading Working at some point this summer... so we'll have to get geeky and talk about Studs some time =)<br /><br />Also, the Mark Twain quote is spot on.<br /><br />Again thanks for the comments!!! Keep them coming =)Abigail Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09935818594396207981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024348901961505093.post-4813895197283561422011-06-15T09:11:19.367-05:002011-06-15T09:11:19.367-05:00I like this quote, and it seems to fit into this p...I like this quote, and it seems to fit into this post:<br /><br />"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." - Mark TwainChristopher Coonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05294134145290227150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024348901961505093.post-32841777913896852212011-06-14T15:11:03.750-05:002011-06-14T15:11:03.750-05:00I love this post. You've been getting a bit mo...I love this post. You've been getting a bit more personal with these, and that makes for good reading. The experiences, and your reflections on those experiences, give me a lot to think about. So thank you for that. <br /><br />As for my summer reading list, it looks something like this:<br /><br />Continue to re-read "Division Street: America" from Studs Terkel. And to continue reading the 2007 edition of "The Best American Essays". I also want to read "The Auto-Biography of Miles Davis" and "This Side of Brightness" by Colum McCann. <br /><br />And I'm looking forward to getting your thoughts on "Dandelion Wine". That book has summer bursting out of every page! Enjoy!Christopher Coonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05294134145290227150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024348901961505093.post-87821370369503712112011-06-14T11:31:09.329-05:002011-06-14T11:31:09.329-05:00I, too, spent a vast majority of childhood with my...I, too, spent a vast majority of childhood with my nose buried in a book (I distinctly remember a road trip through the Smokey Mountains with my parents yelling at me to STOP reading and actually look up at the scenery). I've been going back and re-reading some old favorites this summer - "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle being chief among them - it always amazes me how I can get so much out of something I've already read two or three (or four or five) times. I think that's because each time we go back hopefully /we've/ changed a little in the interim, so we bring something new to the experience and maybe see or understand things in a different way. That's the power of literature - the words may be static but we aren't, so the experience isn't either.<br /><br />P.S. Love that you put Ender's Game on top of your post, that's probably my favorite piece of fiction ever written. We'll have to have geeky sci-fi conversations sometime about the sequels.Jonashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06918330653819943833noreply@blogger.com