What are you reading?

Maybe doesn't count as 'reading', but back when I was in middle/high school, the Claude Bolling flute and jazz piano suite got lots and lots of play. It was super popular among those of my classmates who were taking modern dance ... I think for some years running there was no dance concert put on at my school where somebody hadn't choreographed a number to one of the pieces in that suite. I think at one point I felt like I had heard enough of it.

But I've lately been pulling out old vinyl that I haven't played in decades, and did kind of a double take when I saw that I have that. I must have liked it enough to buy the disc. Or somebody gave it to me. However it happened, there it is.

So I played it. Wow! I guess I didn't hear enough of it way back when. That thing rocks.

 

Listened to Claude this evening. Excellent

kris

 

Huckleberry Finn.

 

read huck back in the day. should i give it another go around?

i've been reading a book every couple days here in florida, and i can't recommend any of them

 

Your call. I read as a kid too, had only the vaguest recollection of the story. Was a lot closer to the publication date then lol, late 1800’s.

we got it at Christmas, a local couple doing rustic binding.

 

You can say whatever you want, even here

 

Was doing research at an honest to goodness brick and mortar library when I said screw it and decided to indulge an old habit...literati noir.

Stumbled upon "Poodle Springs," which was published about a quarter century ago, but had somehow escaped my notice.

It was started by Raymond Chandler. But Chandler died before completion, so, Robert Parker of "Spenser" fame took it over.

Not too bad. Mostly interesting as you can certainly spot the way the different styles meld.
kris

 

High school English. Twain was apparently considered "too difficult" to be read on our own, so our...,this was his first year teaching teacher...had to read it aloud to the class.

Was awakened out of my doze when the teacher misread one of Tom Sawyer's lines....

"It ain't your fault, (*)uck."

The class exploded with laughs. I went back to dozing. In those days I often stayed out far past midnight.
kris

 

i never fell asleep in class, but i would often go into a strange trance. uncomfortable when hearing my name called brought me out of it.

 

Opps, double post

 

Falling asleep in my classes was not an option. Sisters of Charity indeed.

https://tinyurl.com/Blues-brothers

 

In my USN Electronics classes, falling asleep was *not* an option, but we were allowed to stand in the back of the class if our necks became too rubbery.
One of my instructors used to gauge class breaks by how many of his students were left sitting in the desks until we caught on -

 

Would you say their charity has benefited you later on?