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Apparently, the new online insult is....

"You don't read books!" 

Just so y'all know and are up on your insults. 

I've been told this twice now.....ironically, once because I liked playing a game too much, and once because I didn't like playing a game enough. 

So we're alllllll clear on this, I LOVE to read. I'm actually like, a recovering addict. I'm guilty of buying the same book twice because I've read so many that I didn't remember if I had read it before or not. I was on a college reading level in middle school. 

So there. Neener neener. I am rubber, you are glue, whatever you say bounces right off of me and sticks right back to you.  :P 

;) <3 

Posted 17 months ago by NutMeg Botwin Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Ha, ElleD, so you say re: not speaking German anymore but your bit in parentheses is well done:) Remind me next time in game to tell you a fun little story re: scheissen and schiessen that involves actual Germans, in Germany!

    Soooo on topic again: Harrrrrry Potttttter. Just sayin'.
    Posted 17 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Catfish and Mandala
    Posted 17 months ago by g33kgurrl Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ok, librarians, bookstore owners, etc- tell me- can it still be done? my dream has always been to open a bookstore, but with bookstores and libraries closing here faster than my glitch rock can read, it seems untenable.

    tell me- should i aspire?

    that said, i just got offered an apprenticeship at a small press today. and accepted of course.

    but i never learned to read.... (cue wayne's world!)
    Posted 17 months ago by greenkozi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • RM, Ich würde lieben, es auch zu hören! (Ich kann nur wenig jetzt sprechen, und es auch tut mir leid! Und meine Grammatik... pfeh)
     
    *dances, sans knife*
    Posted 17 months ago by Jennyanydots Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ye Olde Translation:
    RM, I'd also love to hear it! (I can only speak a little now, and it also makes me sad! And my grammar...pfeh.)

    *tanzt, ohne Messer*
    Posted 17 months ago by Jennyanydots Subscriber! | Permalink
  • so if anyone needs books because they don't have an easily accessible library/can't access a library and/or wants to set up some kind of book swap, i personally think that would be awesome, and would be happy to help organize that kind of thing.

    i have a whole box of books by my door that are our "free books" that we encourage visitors to take on their way out, and would love to get more mail (in real life and glitch- i spend tons of times sending out frogs!)

    so, if that sounds cool, holler, and i'll set up a book exchange group on glitch :)
    Posted 17 months ago by greenkozi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oooh, greenkozi, I might be up for that. We try to "thin the herd" as I call it now and then but even so, the books they press in! Want to be good stewards of our possessions so a book exchange might be just the thing:) 

    However...might want to make sure group is private so that people's addresses aren't out and about...as well as encourage people to use work or P.O. box addresses. That sort of thing. In fact, people could exchange backup email addys and do the RL addresses via those. Just thinking security here:) But as I say, ooh yes, count me in!
    Posted 17 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I vividly remember learning  to read in first grade (1946), Riverside, California, with Dick and Jane and Spot and Sally and Puff the kitten,  Mother and Father.   The words were magic...I never stopped once I had mastered the skill.  We had the Blue Birds, the smart kids , and the Robins, the learning challenged kids.. two groups... at the end of the year all could read...
    Posted 17 months ago by napabeth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hey, I was just wondering: is any of you non-readers ;) active on LibraryThing by chance?
    Posted 17 months ago by Spree Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I used to love to read very often, and would go through around ten books a week. When I started highschool, I had so much schoolwork and I kind of stopped as I just didn't have the time to do it, and it's carried on and I only read a little bit nowadays. 

    I'm currently supposed to be reading Great Expectations as summer reading for my Lit class. We were given the hardcover book, but I had been reading it primarily on my Kindle until now -- I just pulled out my Kindle last night to find that its screen is completely broken. There goes $300 of technology. :/ I think I might have either elbowed it or set my DSLR on top of it too hard while I was packing the other day, ughhhh, they're so fragile! It's out of warranty, but I'm going to call Amazon because they've been known to be really nice about it and possibly replace it for free if I can sweet-talk 'em enough... or I'll just have to get it replaced for $99. Which I'm not sure about, I could just get the newer version for $139.

    In the meantime, I shall be reading Dickens on "real paper". 
    Posted 17 months ago by Napoleon Bonaparte Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Reading? Reading in first grade? Oh, that brings back bad memories. Hell, reading in class in any grade brings back bad memories. The slow droning of my peers... Ugh... I don't understand why my teachers couldn't just let me read on my own. By the time the third kid finished his paragraph I was already done with the story! Then I started reading my Nancy Drew books. And then I was chastised and lectured and "You have to read with the class" and I just facepalmed and lay my head on the desk. You know why kids in America hate reading, public school system? BECAUSE YOU FORCE US TO LISTEN TO OTHER KIDS READ, THAT'S WHY. Well that and that stupid penchant of focusing on a book for a month and drawing it out like it's some sort of immense wall of metaphors and social commentary it clearly isn't.

    The really sad part is that the stories we read? They were pretty good. But everyone hated them because of how it was taught.

    OK, end rant. Ugh.
    Posted 17 months ago by Liridona Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Liridona, I never knew why I felt this way about reading until you pointed this out lol.  Thanks for helping me sift through my own thoughts.  I agree with you wholeheartedly.  
    Posted 17 months ago by Robo Lobo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Liridona: Hence my commitment to home schooling (I taught public school: Yargh! I can do a better job than that!). 

    @Napoleon: Speaking as an English major and a former English teacher: Skip that bloody book! Dickens is overrated:) (A fair number of the "classics" are.) Hehe
    Posted 17 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I suggest War and Peace.
    Posted 17 months ago by napabeth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Rascalmom: Oh, I would definitely skip it -- if only I hadn't been assigned extensive "journal entries" and research assignments on the book over summer break as well as a test over it on the first day of class!
    Posted 17 months ago by Napoleon Bonaparte Subscriber! | Permalink
  • In the 40's in public school we had tyrant old ladies for teachers. I still quake at the thought of their stern looks. Mrs Ford would march a naughty student around the school yard, holding firmly to his ear.     The boys were always much naughtier than the girls.   There was ALWAYS a quiet, well controlled class room. We had desks with ink well holes and iron sides, left overs from the Dark Ages. I adored school. It was nice. I do remember one single time when I got in big trouble for taking my shirt off in first grade.. That was simply not done even though it was 90 degrees in June...
    Posted 17 months ago by napabeth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @g33kgurrl - I just read your post about the Read-A-Thon.  You ROCK. 

    I had a 4th grade teacher and a principal convinced that my 10 year old self couldn't possibly have understood Romeo and Juliet at that age and wrote the book report that I did at the time.  After calling my father in to explain that I had cheated, they suspended me because I insisted that I wasn't lying or cheating (stupid Catholic school...)  

    At a psuedo PTA meeting that night, my dad complained and a 5th grade teacher started asking me questions about the book.  Then asked if I'd read anything else by Shakespeare, and started asking me questions on that (Twelfth Night).  I had a perfect grasp of the story and underlying themes, and got everything expunged.  That's what happens when you deal with someone who is precocious at a young age and has a college reading comprehension level when they're 10.  

    My daughters are like that too - so I encourage it and talked to their middle school teachers at the beginning of the year before testing starts to figure these things out.  They're forewarned that they have bright kids to deal with (which makes their job easier sometimes too).  

    I continue to read voraciously whenever I get a chance.  Reading and books are always a most excellent thing.  They entertain me, they educate me, they open my mind to thinking more critically and carefully about things, which helps in daily life and in my job (data analyst and software product development)
    Posted 17 months ago by WhizGidget Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Did you mention how Mercutio saw romance? Because I guarantee you'd be expelled from that Catholic school if you did.
    Posted 17 months ago by Liridona Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh, Napoleon, you poor thing. Get the Cliff's Notes:) lol

    @napabeth: Yes, I bet you DID take off your shirt, you naughty thing!
    Posted 17 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
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