Subject: Book suggestions?
Date: Tue May 7 12:58:30 2013
User: BuzzClik
Message:It seems the "Unsettling" is prose rather than poetry.
Date: Tue May 7 13:09:36 2013
User: TNmountainman
Message:Ah. I've been wanting to explore his prose at some point, but each time I make time to get into his work, I can't avoid being drawn to his poems. There's still lots there for me to explore.
Date: Sun May 12 09:52:30 2013
User: hotnurse
Message:@Kaos, well, I am on a 10 day break in Virginia with my kids. I brought with me Love In The Time Of Cholera. I am more than half way through it right now and funny how reading something for the second time you find that it is an entirely different book than the first reading. It's such a great love story! Also a very relaxing read.
I've found this true with other books that I have read the second time around.
Date: Sun May 12 10:16:46 2013
User: poptart
Message:I'm reading The Book Thief.
figured if I paid for the book (kids had to read it for school), might as well read it.
Date: Sun May 12 10:19:33 2013
User: Pepsi_one
Message:Did you actually pay for the book?
Date: Sun May 12 10:24:20 2013
User: poptart
Message:yup. We have two choices.. get from the local library, where there will be a waiting list AND have to return in 2 weeks, which is less time than the teacher takes in covering the book, or buy it.
Date: Sun May 12 10:24:51 2013
User: BuzzClik
Message:Good question. Is the book autobiographical?
Date: Sun May 12 10:26:33 2013
User: poptart
Message:oh geez... that had totally gone over my head! I'm still working on coffee #1...
Date: Sun May 12 10:48:13 2013
User: Snowguy
Message:Since I mentioned this book in the Trails thread, I decided to post it here, too. Read it a few years back on my Kindle.
"Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip"
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(BTW, good ones, Pepsi and Buzz)
Link: Harry and Bess
Date: Sun May 12 11:24:40 2013
User: TNmountainman
Message:User: poptart
Message:
"I'm reading The Book Thief."
User: BuzzClik
Message:
"Good question. Is the book autobiographical?"
Reminds me of Hoffman's "Steal this book"...lol
(probably before your time, poptart)
Link: "Steal this book"
Date: Sun May 12 11:55:49 2013
User: Pepsi_one
Message:Or the rock album "steal this album"
Date: Sun May 12 13:57:39 2013
User: BuzzClik
Message:Or the anarchists industrial construction manual, "Take this I-Beam"
Date: Wed May 15 22:01:30 2013
User: BuzzClik
Message:I've been reading Wendell Berry. I began with The Country of Marriage, for no particular reason other than it is a small volume and fits nicely in my hand.
When I got to "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front", it was an "Oh, my!" moment. I love this poem. I think it also gives me a little peek into TN's head. Nicely nicely!
Link: Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Date: Wed May 15 22:23:31 2013
User: hotnurse
Message:I just purchased Dan Brown's Inferno. I know, it not real but he does write exciting novels. Hope it's good.
Date: Thu May 16 00:52:39 2013
User: TNmountainman
Message:Well, I'm very happy that you're getting into him. I suspected you would follow through. But.....now that you have a "little peek" into my head, I'll have to lose it, as per Berry's admonition. I don't think you're a general, but I do know you're a politico, and thus dangerous.
I wouldn't say I'm the anarchist-in-farmer's-clothing Berry sometimes seems, but I do sympathize with his way of looking at things, and most especially "the natural order". The cadence of his work is so deft - yet totally natural. It flows quickly, as conversation, yet no human while merely talking can compress so many themes so easily, and have them intermingle and make sense.
By the way, they shouldn't have used that tractor image for that picture. Last I heard he was still using oxen and/or mules to plow with.
But seriously, I'm glad you are beginning to see what I've seen. Don't give up too easily if you can't find "The Wheel" and "Leavings". They're worth seeking out if you like what you're finding already. Isn't it amazing the ground he covers (pun semi-intended) in just that one poem?
Date: Thu May 16 01:15:27 2013
User: TNmountainman
Message:Just out of curiosity, found this (the only review on the site), from amazon:
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Wheel, July 3, 2000
By
Elaine ______ (Wyalusing, PA USA) -
This review is from: The Wheel (Hardcover)
"This is a book to carry with you through life. At my wedding "The Dance" was read, when my young daughter lost her leg I found comfort in "The Gift of Gravity". I love the simple, deep, dancing, heavy, wisdoms that this man can spin with seemingly little effort. Truly a book you'll not want to let go."
Date: Thu May 16 07:52:05 2013
User: BuzzClik
Message:I found Leavings easily enough, but I had to dig through a couple of compilations to find The Wheel.
Won't be reading them quickly ... it all takes time.
Date: Thu May 16 09:51:25 2013
User: TNmountainman
Message:You mean the entirety of "The Wheel" is within a compilation? That is unknown to me - not that I'm an expert or anything.
Date: Thu May 16 10:03:17 2013
User: BuzzClik
Message:"New Collected Poems." It's 390 pages long, so containing The Wheel within is not a difficult task. It also contains Country of Marriage.
Date: Thu May 16 10:43:35 2013
User: TNmountainman
Message:Hmmm. I was not familiar with that compilation, released just last year.
Date: Wed May 22 21:09:58 2013
User: BuzzClik
Message:I've read about a third of The Wheel after being thoroughly impressed with The Country of Marriage.
He truly is gifted. Most of his work is free form, but he will, when appropriate, slide seamlessly into metered rhymes. My favorite was in the middle of one poem he busts out an ABBA sequence. So much symbolism. I'm just soaking it in and only occasionally peeling back the layers.
Great recommendation, TN.
Date: Wed May 22 23:37:39 2013
User: hotnurse
Message:Guess I will have to add that to my reading list. Almost finished with Inferno then next on the stack is Prince of Tides...anyone read that?
Date: Thu May 23 03:11:05 2013
User: TNmountainman
Message:Really glad you're getting it, Buzz. This is the kind of interchange that we would be missing out on if we were to cause this board to die....
V.
Our bond is no little economy based on the exchange
of my love and work for yours, so much for so much
of an expendable fund. We don't know what its limits are--
that puts us in the dark. We are more together
than we know, how else could we keep on discovering
we are more together than we thought?
You are the known way leading always to the unknown,
and you are the known place to which the unknown is always
leading me back. More blessed in you than I know,
I possess nothing worthy to give you, nothing
not belittled by my saying that I possess it.
Even an hour of love is a moral predicament, a blessing
a man may be hard up to be worthy of. He can only
accept it, as a plant accepts from all the bounty of the light
enough to live, and then accepts the dark,
passing unencumbered back to the earth, as I
have fallen tine and again from the great strength
of my desire, helpless, into your arms.
VI.
What I am learning to give you is my death
to set you free of me, and me from myself
into the dark and the new light. Like the water
of a deep stream, love is always too much. We
did not make it. Though we drink till we burst
we cannot have it all, or want it all.
In its abundance it survives our thirst.
In the evening we come down to the shore
to drink our fill, and sleep, while it
flows through the regions of the dark.
It does not hold us, except we keep returning
to its rich waters thirsty. We enter,
willing to die, into the commonwealth of its joy.
Date: Thu May 23 08:19:04 2013
User: BuzzClik
Message:I don't always read poetry, but when I do
I prefer Wendell Berry.
Date: Thu May 23 23:35:49 2013
User: capeshores
Message:Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver. Two wonderful poets. I am envious of their ability to write so magically. I feel blessed to have these wonderful folks share their sensitive words with anyone willing to read something besides vampire books or poorly written books like "Shades of Gray" series. Speaking of the last books....My small independent bookstore kept them in the bathroom. Where they belong.
Date: Tue Aug 15 12:41:54 2017
User: TNmountainman
Message:Anybody ready for a 'new' young poet I discovered? Not as wonderful as Berry, very uneven in quality, and way darker, but some powerful emotional stuff, imo.
Date: Tue Aug 15 14:23:56 2017
User: Klepp
Message:Currently re-reading Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations," and listening to various Poe pieces, including a favorite: "The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether."
Date: Mon Apr 23 12:13:29 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:OK.......I believe, unless I saw it wrong.......that tonight on PBS, at least here in hillbilly land, is "Wendell Berry's Kentucky", at 10 PM EDT. Should be interesting.
"Upon further review"..........looks like I was right:
Link: Wendell Berry's Kentucky on "Independent Lens"
Date: Mon Apr 23 14:33:11 2018
User: shorebird
Message:Thanks, TNmountainman. I will see if I can find Wendell Berry on tv tonight. Don't know if I get EDT, but WB is worth a search. Most likely can find Independent Lens by streaming. By the way, poptart, hello from DE.
Date: Mon Apr 23 14:37:16 2018
User: BuzzClik
Message:If you live in DE, you definitely get EDT....
Date: Mon Apr 23 15:11:54 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:Well, he 'has' EDT, but he may not "get" it.
Date: Mon Apr 23 15:13:12 2018
User: The_Interpreter
Message:And, some get ED.
Date: Mon Apr 23 15:43:37 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:Failed interpretation, that is.
Date: Mon Apr 23 16:10:16 2018
User: outskirts
Message:I hear it will be EDT all year now. I hear it depends on your state.
Date: Tue Apr 24 13:34:58 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:I thought the Berry show was mostly underwhelming. Too much on the transition of farming practices, esp. tobacco (not that that info doesn't need to be out there); and the soundtrack/background music was too intrusive. The last 20 minutes, tho, was pretty good. Much more Berry in there. It was more like Berry was being used as the proxy for decrying the move to giganta-agriculture. He *is* maybe the best (individual) proxy for that comparison, but I thought the show overall could have been more tightly edited and focused. Just my take. Or maybe it's that I was expecting something different.
The year-'round DST is not a 'thing' yet. I would hope so, but it doesn't seem imminent.
Date: Tue Apr 24 14:41:58 2018
User: outskirts
Message:It might be a thing in FL in June or July.
Date: Wed Apr 25 14:00:14 2018
User: outskirts
Message:google search "daylight savings florida". The thing is, if/when this happens, we will *never* get that hour back. But on the up side, that's one less hour with...
Date: Thu Apr 26 01:59:52 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:I can't believe no one's taken that bait yet...
Date: Thu Apr 26 04:50:39 2018
User: outskirts
Message:Not "bait". Just couldn't say. It's a well-known internet joke. I figured everyone would get it. I do not "bait".
Date: Thu Apr 26 11:48:50 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:I didn't mean that in a negative way. Just that there are soooo many ways that sentence could be completed. If that "internet joke" is a known "thing", I'm blissfully(?) unaware.
Date: Thu Apr 26 12:39:55 2018
User: TitanicTony
Message:The Russian government has decided this will be its last clock change, according to the Guardian. President Dmitry Medvedev said the change is “irritating” and affects people's biorhythm.
Date: Fri Apr 27 01:02:06 2018
User: outskirts
Message:TN: s'ok. I should maybe think about how things look but I never do. Like the reality shot I got the other day in a dressing room mirror.
Date: Fri Apr 27 01:07:50 2018
User: outskirts
Message:I was in denial because I was still wearing the same jeans, so how bad could it be, right?!
Stretchy denim is super cool, to a point. I remedied the situation by getting cool blousy tops.
Laughing imogee
Date: Sat Aug 3 23:34:19 2019
User: Malr
Message:I have written and published a book. Free kindle to anyone who asks for it. And gives me their email address.
If possible please share a review on Amazon.
The book is Conspiracy of Doves and it is set in the Elizabethan era.
Helen
Date: Sun Aug 4 16:07:05 2019
User: Malr
Message:Spot on
Date: Sun Aug 4 16:33:51 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:Suspected such. So you've taken that idea, and written a work of fiction based on that? Quite interesting - which your mind ALWAYS is. Are you a fan of Dawkins? Altho he's a formidable thinker, I think he is maybe a bit, uh, conceited sometimes?
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