Thread: What are You Reading?

I am just getting ready to sit down with Wills Music. Any one else reading it at the moment and/or interested in maybe starting another thread to discuss it?

I just finished reading "Letters from a father to his daughter". These are the letters written by Jawarhalal Nehru, the first prime minister of India to his daughter when she was around 11 years old. It's a beautiful read, even more so if you happen to have an 11 year old daughter like I do. The daughter in the book eventually got to be prime minister of India, Indira Ghandi.

Finished Unbroken. Powerful, but I wouldn't say I really liked it. Reading Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant.

Just reading J.M. Barrie's, "Peter Pan" - the original version.

It is a very interesting read and a glimpse into that historical time period. Peter is described as, "a lovely boy, clad in skeleton leaves and the juices that ooze out of trees but the most entrancing thing about him was that he had all his first teeth. When he saw she was a grown-up, he gnashed the little pearls at her." Almost reminiscent of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

The story is filled with the stark realities of the time as well, as in, "there were odd stories about him, as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frightened."

I was thinking how authentic this story is, and how complex, and that to read it to a group of children today, as it was meant to be, would be a gift they would probably never forget. Fascinating read.

Originally Posted by Phrank

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I got to give it to you Phrank,,, you cover the spectrum when it comes to reading,,,,,,,,,,,

Originally Posted by Hirlau

I got to give it to you Phrank,,, you cover the spectrum when it comes to reading,,,,,,,,,,,

It's actually quite a frightening tale in many ways, killings, kids playing games with their dead Fathers in the woods...in so many ways, it shows how far we have removed ourselves from imparting to kids and ourselves, many of the realities of life.

Finished, "Lord of the Flies" not long ago, another chilling book, picked it up in regards to a reference an article made to it and the similarities of what is/was happening in Baltimore.

Please link to that article, if possible. Sounds like an interesting notion.

Originally Posted by Orville

Please link to that article, if possible. Sounds like an interesting notion.

Read it on CNN - here it is:

Baltimore violence and the lack of black men in the city - CNN.com

Thanks . . . very intriguing notion.

Originally Posted by Phrank

It's actually quite a frightening tale in many ways, killings, kids playing games with their dead Fathers in the woods...in so many ways, it shows how far we have removed ourselves from imparting to kids and ourselves, many of the realities of life.

Finished, "Lord of the Flies" not long ago, another chilling book, picked it up in regards to a reference an article made to it and the similarities of what is/was happening in Baltimore.

I'll have to read the article,,,, as I know Lord of the Flies ,,, read it,,, had my son read it last year,,,, I don't see the connection. but I will read the article,,,,, I saw very few "kids" "children" in Baltimore.