baseball,books,buddha and a love of alliteration

[bluegreen17]

i've been doing lots of reading online lately,mostly on lj. a lot of it is baseball stuff. boy,do i miss watching baseball everyday,but it's not like there aren't other things to do. only a little over three months before opening day,anyway!

besides that,i have lots of good folks to read,as well as communities and feeds. i'm probably reading more because i'm not as into c.s.i. or anything on tv as i was for a while. i love the characters on c.s.i.,but i think i'm getting tired of the subject matter! actually,i have started watching the daily show and the colbert report--not because i like politics,but because i like to laugh.

yesterday i went to the library and got a few books,but between reading my lj stuff and other things i needed to do yesterday,i never even looked at the books i brought home. i realized this when i crawled into bed last night and thought it was funny...and that it was great...more to look forward to!

now,i go to the library a lot and i just love picking out books,but i don't read as much in books as i do online. this is okay because i'm interested in all sorts of subjects and check out mostly nonfiction,which works a little better when you're a dabbler.

this week i got:

thoreau as world traveler-john aldrich christie
i've checked this book out several times. the gist of the book is that thoreau was quite the armchair traveler. i myself do a lot of exploring in my armchair or online.

there's a new guy at work and he's studying history and i mentioned that i studied history in school and he asked me what my favorite area was. i had to think about it. i got bored with u.s. history early on (with the exception of world war II history,especially d-day,for some reason) and i mostly took courses in northern european and asian history in college. i realize,though,that these days i've been learning about the southern hemisphere,as i've started studying africa and now want to learn more about south america.

white niggers of america-pierre vallieres
i have no idea why the author considered the working class in quebec to be 'white niggers' but that's what made me curious to take a look at the book.

vineland-thomas pynchon
i was looking for gravity's rainbow and just figured that the library didn't own it. i am constantly amazed at what our library doesn't have that i would consider essential,especially when there's 50 danielle steel titles,but after all,it's a public library and that's what a lot of people want.
to my surprise,the book is in the collection but was checked out. imagine that! anyway,the reason i wanted it was because a friend mentioned that if most fiction bores me,but i like reading neal stephenson's fiction because i love the way he actually writes,that i might like pynchon.

blog-david kline and dan burnstein
of course i find this subject matter interesting. i'm on lj,aren't i?

zen judaism-david m. bader
this book is a riot.


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Comments

[mforbes321.livejournal.com]

"...but i don't read as much in books as i do online. this is okay because i'm interested in all sorts of subjects and check out mostly nonfiction,which works a little better when you're a dabbler."

I am much the same way.

I'm totally checking out the Zen Judaism book. funny stuff.

[parakleta.livejournal.com]

For most of my reading needs (I don't know if you're aware of this site yet), I tend to find that Project Gutenberg is an excellent source of reading material. Also, more recently constructed, I'm finding WikiSource and WikiQuote to be excellent resources also (I'm a sucker for quotes by 19th-20th Century European authors/philosophers/scientists)

[bluegreen17]

those are excellent. thank you!