It’s been over five weeks since my last bookconscious post. In that time, I only finished reading four books, although I’ve got three others started and have dipped into several volumes of poetry. Two of the books I’m currently reading are all about grounding oneself in the quiet within an ordinary day. I can’t seem [...]
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Looking for quiet gifts
Posted in autodidactism, books, interconnectedness, life learning, reading, seeking, unschooling, writing, tagged autodidactism, book clubs, book discussion, book groups, Bookconscious Theory of the Interconnectedness of Reading, books, culture, fiction, historical fiction, history, humor, libraries, life learning, literary, memoir, mindfulness, New England, New Hampshire, Norse literature, novels, peace, poetry, reading, readings, Tolkien, unschooling, writing on October 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Fiction and food, the familiar and the faraway
Posted in books, cultures, interconnectedness, life learning, poetry, reading, travel, writing, tagged book clubs, book discussion, book groups, Bookconscious Theory of the Interconnectedness of Reading, books, cultures, fiction, grail quest, history, humor, interconnectedness, libraries, life learning, memoir, mindfulness, New England, New Hampshire, novels, poetry, race issues, reading, writing on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I read a variety of books this month, but I noticed as I looked over the list that many of them, fiction and nonfiction alike, featured food prominently. Location mattered, too, as I gravitated towards books set near and far, from Seattle to New England, from New York to Paris, to the mountains of Bhutan. [...]
What would Thoreau think?
Posted in Thoreau, autodidactism, books, cultures, interconnectedness, life learning, poetry, reading, unschooling, war, writing, tagged autodidactism, book clubs, Bookconscious Theory of the Interconnectedness of Reading, cultures, fiction, historical fiction, history, interconnectedness, libraries, life learning, New England, novels, poetry, reading, suspense, Theory of Interconnectedness, Thoreau, unschooling, Walden, war, writing on May 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
April turned out to be a busy month, but I did find time to read. I suspect that the author of one of the books I finished, Walden, would not think much of either my hectic schedule or my eclectic reading. I started reading Walden last year, when the kids and I were learning about [...]
Searches for meaning, theories of everything
Posted in Iran, autodidactism, books, cultures, interconnectedness, life learning, reading, unschooling, tagged autodidactic, bible, books, cartoons, culture, cultures, fantasy, humor, Iran, libraries, life learning, meaning, memoir, NaNoWriMo, novels, parenting, reading, sabbath, theories, transformative, unschooling, writing on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two of us here at the bookconscious household were NaNoWriMo winners this year — which means we wrote a novel each in November. As I noted last month, it’s absolutely nuts of me to try and write 50,000 words in November, especially 50,000 words that should make sense in some kind of compelling way. My [...]
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