What are you reading?

^^^PBS Newshour had Dr. Collin’s on yesterday I believe with his new book where he explains his beliefs on science and faith as well. He seemed way too happy but I guess I’m getting cynical in my old age. He developed his Christian beliefs around 25 years old he stated. I was just getting out of the military at 25 years old, to me funny coincidence! lol!!!

Oldwolf said:

I'm making my way through the William Kent Krueger mysteries.

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I just downloaded his latest one. I will open it today. There is a long waiting list for it at the library so I will get to it quickly.

www.amazon.com/There-Gentle-Live-Among-Wolves/dp/1878995138
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THERE ARE MEN TOO GENTLE TO LIVE AMONG WOLVES.
During the early-1970s, Professor Kavanaugh was my instructor at uni.
I probably read each page of this humble 1970 masterpiece at least a dozen times over the decades.
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I read a page, then set it aside and let my mind wander.
Good stuff.

I used to travel to Columbus, Ohio for the annual Pulp Fest book exhibition
and buy some reprints to read. Fine storytelling in those old "dime fiction novels" from the earlier part of the 20th century. when there was little radio, no TV or Internet. People simply read for their entertainment. And as I've learned some of those stories are better than much of what is available thru mass media today. Storytelling was an art in those times and ironically much of it lives on in the movies we see today.

This post isn't about any one Pulp I've read in particular but a documentary you can stream on TUBI that explains all about the Golden Age of the Pulp industry. You may want to be where there is WIFI to watch it on a laptop and enjoy.

Pulp Fiction the golden age of........

I just finished “Night of the Fox”, by Jack Higgins, and it was excellent,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Fox_(novel)

If you like reading, you may like storytelling around the campfire. I live in Appalachia and we are well known for the storytelling arts here. Short stories lend themselves well to this kind of crowd entertainment.

Here is one group on Facebook:

National Storytellers League

Toastmasters network

The Liars Club Facebook

Each of these are a way of entertaining and telling others about books you've read. Some just relate the story, others may provide entertainment with stories related to some "topic event". And some are just such ironic and crazy tall tales told in a serious mode that the audience can't contain their laughter.

eDJ_ said:

If you like reading, you may like storytelling around the campfire. I live in Appalachia and we are well known for the storytelling arts here. Short stories lend themselves well to this kind of crowd entertainment.

Here is one group on Facebook:

National Storytellers League

Toastmasters network

The Liars Club Facebook

Each of these are a way of entertaining and telling others about books you've read. Some just relate the story, others may provide entertainment with stories related to some "topic event". And some are just such ironic and crazy tall tales told in a serious mode that the audience can't contain their laughter.

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I love telling ghost stories at work VERY watered-down toddler friendly ghost stories and have always thought of campfires as the best excuse for storytelling.
As an early childhood educator, I know verbal story telling works and stimulates a different part of the brain then does reading or video. It also can do wonders for emotional grounding and can help kidos settle for rest. And if it is the thing they have to look forward to if they get done with the whole potty and drinks and get ready for rest they do all that much easier ......

I was at the Library yesterday and got a chance to look thru



A person turned it in and the circulation desk clerk explained to me that there were over 20 people on the waiting list to check it out.

So while they were calling the next person to tell them the book was in and for them to come after it....I got a chance to sit and read thru it.

It stated that she was at 15 accepted into a secondary school for design & photography and states she studied Industrial design. Later accepted into a curriculum for Architecture at 22 but began part time modeling. From there dropped out of school when a modeling agency in Milan and left education behind and went full time into modeling in Italy.

In 1998 she was at a fashion week party where she met Donald Trump. He gave her his business card and she later called him. He picked her up in his Black Mercedes and the rest is history.

Thru the rest of the book it is praise for Donald and claiming everything being said about him is a bunch of lies. He is the greatest of human beings. A modern day Cinderella. (Melania's family weren't of real affluence...middle class perhaps). Her Grandfather was a shoe maker and farmer, her mother (from Austria) a fashion pattern designer. Her father was Slovenian with mechanical talent who worked on vehicles and in sales of them also. He brokered in exotic cars later in life.

The book is more a chronicle of her life, and a dismissal of anything said against her husband. Lots of bias. I'd suggest checking it out at the Library opposed to buying it. Unless you are just crazy about Melania.

vanbrat wrote:

As an early childhood educator, I know verbal story telling works and stimulates a different part of the brain then does reading or video.

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I agree. As a kid in elementary school there was a story tellers "group" of 5th & 6th grade kids who would learn and practice telling stories. Beginners (grade 5) started with Aesop's Fables etc and would come to the Teacher's door at an assigned time with a more experienced (grade 6) kid. The younger kid would tell a Fable and then the older kid would tell a short story. This was usually less than 15 minutes. Thus the kids doing this had a lead to understudy and learn from. Generally the kids who heard stories from the storytelling kids were grade 3 and below. Every little kid wants to be a bigger kid and this had a positive effect for all of the kids. By grade 4, kids begin to develop a different view of themselves and form a new self awareness. Younger kids may be in a "I and my" stage or still seeing the world revolving around them, but by grade 4 they begin to leave that beyond.

Adults telling stories can benefit from this too.

In my corporate days a lot of the Sales Staff had been sent to Dale Carnegie classes where they learned to tell stories before audiences. It built self confidence and skill. Some of these people often spoke before other division offices personnel much like toast masters.

More about that here:

Dale Carnegie and the art of Storytelling