Tag Archives: Reading

2025 Guide To Intelligent Interraction in a Morally and Intellectually Challenged Society: Lessons #1 and 2

Posted on April 8, 2025 by randomyriad

Reading is a means of listening. Reading is not as passive as hearing or viewing. It’s an act: you do it. You read at your pace, your own speed, not the ceaseless, incoherent, gabbling, shouting rush of the media. You … Continue reading →

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The Art of Narration I: Maurice Evans Reads A. A. Milne

Posted on June 15, 2022 by randomyriad
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Incantations: The Magic of Reading Aloud

Posted on June 22, 2018 by randomyriad

      The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (Lovecraft cover art) by Gervasio Gallardo (b. 1934) I have read this very strange novel to myself and once to my then 3 year son, who loved it when I read him anything. I have … Continue reading →

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A Dangerous Woman

Posted on January 29, 2018 by randomyriad

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Rabble-Rouser with a Gentle Smile By Neil Gaiman January 25, 2018 IN MEMORIAM   The thing about Ursula K. Le Guin was that she didn’t actually look like a rabble-rousing, bomb-throwing, dangerous woman. She had a … Continue reading →

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Books I Read in 2017

Posted on December 31, 2017 by randomyriad

I am a slow reader with limited attention span so you know if I stuck with a book I was hooked.  January:   audiobook February   MARCH      APRIL     May   JUNE   July     August         September     October   … Continue reading →

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