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July 8, 2009
Motivational Reading
My wife is a voracious reader. She reads three or four books a week, mostly fiction but recently she has taken up ancient Greek history and culture. She also belongs to a book club sponsored by our local public library. They discuss some book or other at their monthly meetings. The book for this month is The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911 by Juliet Nicolson. This work received some great reviews but not from Shirley.
She just told me, "It's very tedious. It makes me fell like giving up reading and doing housework."
This is from a woman who recently read Herodotus cover to cover and seemed to enjoy the experience. But then she's only about halfway through The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911. If she ever stops dusting, she may have another opinion by bedtime.
Posted by Duane Smith at July 8, 2009 12:21 PM | Read more on Humor |
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Sometimes I give up learning Hebrew for work in the garden - very refreshing. You may have seen that I have a draft of my Job translation in pdf form - now under the title 'A Parable of Dust and Ashes'
You won't need to take up housework, you could probably breeze through the Hebrew in a few hours and laugh heartily at some of my misprints.
Cheers from Bob who has just finished a four-month marathon of 1 poem.
Posted by: Bob MacDonald at July 8, 2009 1:11 PM
What are you trying to say about Herodotus?
Posted by: afarensis, FCD at July 10, 2009 9:12 AM
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