Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 23, 2014

… that means shut up… I’M Reading.

One simple answer: “Payment is in dollars per page.”

Tweets and novels are at opposite ends of the written language spectrum.

I have read long books I really enjoyed and got lost in. I have read others written so badly I either put down forever or read to the end out of contempt of the writers’ style and lack of skill, just to get the book off my do list. Than there are technical manuals…..

I like how a comedian on a radio show put it – I can’t read that, it’s like 10,000 tweets!

Unfortunately in most libraries today, the librarians are just as chatty as anyone else. People use their cell phones all the time as if it’s some sort of coffee house. Gone are the days when it was a place for quiet and reading.

I like the phrase, it’s gentle…I’m stealing it….

Books, lots and lots of lovely lovely books…From Adams to Zelazny, fantasy/sci-fi, mystery, classics, history, cooking, poetry….lovely, lovely books

and, that is why we have spoilers that tell what happens in books, movies, and especially tv shows…ie…game of thrones.

Depends where; 15 or 1500 pages. Oh tweet, tweet, give it a crumb and it will go away, for da birds; so wing it.

Many great adventures to be had by just picking up a book! I’ve ridden Flying Dragons.. dabbled in a land where everything was magical and full of puns.. I helped to save Middle Earth, met some of the most wonderful people and creatures in a place called OZ.. solved murders with Sherlock, Miss Marple and Poirot.. read psychological thrillers of Dean Koontz and had Stephen King scare the sweet bejeezus out of me.. I’ve even been on a pirate ship or two and I loved every minute of it!

I have shelves chock full of books and I’m not getting rid of them no matter what this new society says.

-I think he was trying to be funny, and saying that ‘tweet’ is misspelled, as it should be ‘twit’. I think that, but I could be wrong…

The problem with many of the reading assignments we had in high school was that we didn’t have the life experience required to understand the characters or their world. Books became a lot more interesting after I “grew up” and are an excellent way to keep the imagination lubricated.

Show me someone who says “it’s the journey, not the destination”, and I’ll show you someone with a 15-minute commute.

Reading Dickens as an adult, I’ve been able to appreciate how efficient he actually was with words. Every word either paints an image, makes a person seem more real with their quirks and shades of character, or points out the challenges of various aspects of society or its institutions (child homelessness, debtors’ prisons, Ponzi schemes and gambling in the stock market, etc., usually a major point of the book). Everything that seems like a tangent in the first half of the book is drawn together for a huge dramatic payoff in the second half of the book. That being said, I’m 100% against “Great Expectations” being children’s first exposure to Dickens. I did not get it as a ~12 year-old girl, and would never have read Dickens again if it hadn’t been for “Tale of Two Cities” (read in high school), which was a much better initial experience.

And yes, I totally get the irony of defending the writing style of Dickens while being terribly inefficient with words myself…. :)

If a writer is good enough……you would be able to close your eyes and imagine the surroundings in great detail, even become a part of what is going on…..right down to the scents around you.

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, then to write for the public and have no self.” – Cyril Connolly

.Writing is an art. Just as not everyone has the talent for art, not everyone has the taste for art. If Danae weren’t such an excellent representative of the general populace in terms of how she wants things, I might have tried to get syndicated with my own writing. Instead I prefer to limit my stuff to niche groups who can appreciate the stories I have to tell (check out the Fraternity of Shadows forums’ fan fiction section if you care).

A library of the kind that existed when I was about their ages, not the noise-polluted places that exist now. Is that what you’re thinking, Kate?

If it’s ok I either return it to the library or donate it to a used book sale as the case may be. If it’s good I either buy a copy and put it on my bookshelves for re-reading over and over and over or if acquired used I keep it…. If I buy it new from the bookstore it’s a keeper.