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██▓▒░░ JULY 2013's AUTHOR OF THE MONTH: PAUL RUSSELL
Paul will be joining us at The Naked Book Club discussion Saturday 27th July, 9 AM SLT. He's joined SL just for this!
██▓▒░░ JULY 2013's BOOK OF THE MONTH: 'THE UNREAL LIFE OF SERGEY NABOKOV'
This is the book we're reading. There is about a week left to grab it for yourself and read it before our club meeting.
I'll be announcing books and Authors of the month sooner rather than later the beginning of each month starting in August. Hope to see you soon. :D
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Paul Russell is the author of five novels — 'The Salt Point' (1991), 'Boys of Life' (1992), 'Sea of Tranquillity' (1994), 'The Coming Storm' (1999; winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award)) and 'War Against the Animals' (2003)—as well as a work of nonfiction, 'The Gay 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Gay Men and Lesbians, Past and Present' (1995). Find out more about these books at 'The Top Shelf' section of our library.
His poetry, essays and short fiction have appeared in such journals and anthologies as Epoch, Carolina Quarterly, The James White Review, The Black Warrior Review, Sou’wester, Lumina, Men on Men 4, The Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica, Queer 13, Gastronomica and Best Food Writing 2001.
Russell received an AB from Oberlin College, and an MFA, MA and PhD from Cornell University. He is a professor Vassar College, and his teaching interests include Dickens, Joyce, Woolf, Mann, Proust, Nabokov, Gay and Lesbian Studies/Queer Studies,Twentieth Century British and Irish Literature, and Creative Writing. He currently lives in upstate New York.
You can find him online at paul-russell.orghttp://paul-russell.org
Perfect Red Rose With White House & Clouds On Blue Sea & Sky, And Thanksgiving Thoughts - IMRAN™
This one perfect red incredibly fragrance rose in my driveway captures the spirit of Thanksgiving for me, in one unedited unfiltered iPhone picture, in one (long) sentence (also tapped out on the phone).
Blessed and grateful….
to be alive, healthy & walking,
to work in the fields I’m passionate about,
to see such seaside scenery & serenity,
to stop and smell the roses (literally),
to hear the wind carrying the puffy white clouds across the perfectly blue sky,
to touch & pat my German Shepherd Dogs next to me,
to savor every meal God provides,
to be proud of an incredible & accomplished family,
to be blessed with roofs over my head at dream homes in my own private paradises on earth,
to be still full of potential, ideas, dreams & aspirations to be all I can be, and…
to kiss & love and be loved by the most beautiful, intelligent, devoted women in the world.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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800 Days Daily DuoLingo Fabulous Fun French Language Learning Lessons - IMRAN™
Finally, a lot later, but a tiny bit closer to another life goal. 800 days streak of learning French. How and why did that take so long?
Bedsides my late mother’s Urdu language, my late father’s Punjabi, and English learned as a student in Pakistan, I’ve always hungered to learn more languages. As a pre-teen, I was making some progress learning very basic German from Teach Yourself books in the mid 1970s. I won’t mention here BASIC, Pascal, FORTRAN, C, or C++ type programming languages I had also learned!
But then real tough Cambridge school certificate, then Cambridge A’ levels, and later professional electronics engineering degree studies left no time that was taken up being a student political leader in the 1980s. An engineering classmate from Lahore, Amir, did learn French at the Alliance Français and got me hooked on French movies around 1983.
In 1987 (West Germany) became the first country I visited, and fell in love with, followed by France. So, despite my love for Germany and the German people, French became my language learning goal.
Then 30 years of life, and history, flew by. I bought all the books, tapes, CDs, DVDs, and even apps, as the technology of language learning evolved. I even got the DuoLingo app when it first came out. But time remained the constraint.
Until the pandemic. When everyone was asking others what Netflix series to binge-watch, I took advantage of the time to get and spend time walking with my two German Shepherd Dogs, took off 32 pounds of weight I had put in 32 years living in USA, started work on my second music album, and more.
But what I am so happy I was able to pull off into a consistent habit was doing at least 10-minutes or more of French learning every day. Every day, at least once, before midnight.
By the grace of God I just hit 800 days of consecutive learning days, and my 75th week streak in the highest Diamond League of DuoLingo’s gamification system (which really incentivizes the competitive spirit in me).
Can I have a real conversation with my French neighbor, CFO of a major FinTech, Julien? … Pas vraiment, mais peut-être un peu…. But, my life’s journey to be a Learn It All continues. Je vous parlerai (en anglais, français, Urdu/hindi, Punjabi) bientôt!
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