Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is โsight/site.โย Use one, use them both, use them any way youโd like. Bonus points if you use them both. Have fun!
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Shared by my friend, Michele. Thanks! So interesting!
Just a picture of the pairs with the most progress.
There’s a couple more I’m working on but it’s late and I still have Duolingo to do before midnight.
Happy weekend!
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Well, this one will keep you awake at all hours. It did me. I found it intriguing. Sometimes I wanted to say he was wrong, and then he would say something that left me thinking. Lots of thinking. I felt more open after the outer space aliens gave their observations about life and most humans, and I felt I could see things from different points of view than I came into the book. THAT is what reading is supposed to cause. Thoughts.
Though I listened to Mr. Tyson reading his own book on an audio-Libby loan, I think I will try to buy a paper copy. I’d like to take this much slower and mull everything through my filters.
If you like reading things that can kick you in the head with new ideas or angles you might not have thought of, this book is for you. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s voice kept me interested in all of it!
Sometimes I’m looking for other things to try. Today my curiosity is sending me to these tutorials.
I can’t seem to get myself to sit at the piano even though I miss it so much. So I thought maybe working on ear training and playing with chords rather than sight reading. This might do the trick for me.
I saw this on Facebook. Isn’t beautiful?
I want to try watercolor and acrylic painting so here are a couple tires for those.
What are you trying these days?
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Jodi Picoult has written another winner. A well-written story told by all these narrators made this experience feel alive. Some of that was great, but the story is about actual horrific historical events. Mozhan Marno (Narrator), Jennifer Ikeda (Narrator), Edoardo Ballerini (Narrator), Suzanne Toren (Narrator), and Fred Berman (Narrator) made me think of the old radio shows. I never got to listen to them, but there have been a few vacation road trip replays.
I have to admit that reading this at bedtime was often a mistake. My dad had been in a concentration camp as a prisoner of war. I learned about what really happened just before he passed. As children, he told us it was like Hogan’s Heros, and that was how he learned German. A nice guard taught him. But the reality was far different, and he wasn’t Jewish. Just a US infantry grunt. Like most of them, he was an 18-year-old draftee. Too young. They all were. But somebody had to fight the monsters.
The Storyteller is a good title for this book. I highly recommend this read. I got this audio copy from Libby.
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