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...for fun.
Eats, Shoots and Leaves. A funny book about punctuation and grammar! Whaat?
I know this book has been out for a while now, but it's one I've been wanting (and NEEDING) to read and just never got around to. Since I have been on Flickr, I have become very aware of my mis-use and abuse of punctuation, grammar, exclamation points, emoticons, etc.
So hopefully, this book will help me! ;-) (See what I mean?)
The book really IS funny - I love the wry British wit of the author, Lynne Truss. She makes learning about punctuation fun!
The cool coffee mug is new, too. I saw one by this artist on Texas To Mexico's photostream www.flickr.com/photos/7930204@N04/2288010112/ and just had to have one - or two. I found them online and ordered two different designs - I really like the bright colors!
I'm really not a big reader, but sometimes I have to move my junk around and I leaf through it instead of cleaning... here is a random pile of my planners, notebooks and journals. I'm not really that great about writing things down either, so these include a lot of mysterious notes, doodles and memos ... and a lot of blank pages.
For the "What are you reading?" challenge...
I'm a book-a-holic! I love reading almost as much as breathing.
In the bedroom, I am reading The Collected Stories by Grace Paley. The book underneath is what will happen next. On my iPad, I'm reading The Beggar King by Oliver Potzsch and Evernote Essentials by Brett Kelly. I listen to books when I run so the audiobook I've got going currently is The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes.
I can't wait for summer when I will have more time to read!
This is the stack of books on my nightstand. I read mostly for "fun". I'm trying to stretch myself and read to learn something, to be inspired, to be entertained, and get the cobwebs out of my head.
Feb 8th, 2010
Today's 365 submission is a simple triptych of a book that I'm reading. Visual Poetry by Chris Orwig, is a wonderful book by a very gifted artist. More theory than technical (at least up to the spot where I'm at in the book...), Orwig is helping me see the world around me in a new way. I would highly recommend it.
Nikon D90
Nikkor 50mm f/1.4
Shot straight to black & white JPEG in-camera
The Monday Weekly Challenge theme is "something you are reading". Since returning from Mexico I've been: Reading up, Digging up, Digging in, Planting & figuring it all out. This is what I'm reading, this is my labor of love & this is my life.
{inspired by this photo}
i have this very scatterbrained habit of reading more than a couple books at a time. i'll finish them all someday... i hope :)
what are you reading?
if it's possible to sepia people to death, i must be killing you all with my latest stream. anyway, i did this in the early 90's when i was into drawing from crime-related photos and pulp. a bit too literal, but it's my tribute to a most amazing book "least wanted". the book is as much a piece of art as the portraiture that lies within. here's a link to the mastermind behind the book: flickr.com/photos/leastwanted/
It is one of the most remarkable books I've read in a very very long time. To describe it I couldn't do it justice and I wouldn't want to spoil the effect - if you get through the first 30 pages with enough re-reading and re-checking things, it will become clear. And then quite wonderful.
The We're Here challenge on December 27 2017 was: What Are You Reading
Nothing like a hot cup of coffee in the morning with a good book just before starting the grind.
FGR - Coffee Break.
For TRP and What I'm reading. I don't have too much time to read right now...totally distracted with other things lately. (Which is why this is a cell picture.) Little Boy has music class tonight so, for now? This is all I'm reading.
"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy."
~Edward P. Morgan
I'm a big tennis fan, so I really was interested to read Andre Agassi's autobiography. He is very "open" in this book, giving you insight into some of the good, the bad and the painful moments in his life. I highly recommend this book, whether you are a tennis fan or not. Interestingly, Andre worked with a writer, J. R. Moehringer, whose book, "The Tender Bar," I read earlier this year. I could hear echoes of Moeringer in some of the phrasing.
...of books to be read. Yikes, I'm falling behind! And I just ordered three more! It's all Shalini, Nahal, and Madge's fault!
Not the book, the method. The book is Saul Friedlander's Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945: The Years of Extermination and is pretty sobering to say the least. It's the second one of a two-book set, the first one covering the years 1933-1939.
When I read I like to have some support for the book to make it easier, especially in the case of a hardbound one of almost 900 pages. The gray reading pillow works well but in conjunction with the orange one which is nylon filled with polystyrene beads, I don't even have to hold it in position.
I'm also into a second book of a more entertaining variety, The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. It's a modern day Dracula novel. I'm just 125 pages into that but, so far, it's pretty enjoyable.
Wow, while I was posting this we apparently had an earthquake! My whole house was shaking back and forth and the ceiling fan was swinging. I noticed a couple of neighbors outdoors so I went out to see if they had noticed it, too. We all felt it at the same time. No noise, just the shaking. Not a common experience in New Jersey to have one that you can actually feel.