Even the ancient Greeks practiced same sex relationship

Hint, it's a book. It's a made up story specifically designed to yank your chain. People pay to experience such emotions and you got your moneys worth.

Pretty much.

Ohh so it was also socially accurate. I thought the characters were meant to be that way and not because it's the reflection of society. But It turns out men were really more open back in the day.

Highlight passages that stick out to you and journal/discuss based on that. I also love to relate the themes/moral of the story to songs.

Simply put, yes. This obsession with not being perceived as gay is incredibly historically recent. You can find old black and white photos of male friends embracing and letters between men that’d come off as love letters to most men today. And that’s just in western culture. The samurai, arguably one of if not the greatest warriors in history, were not just warriors, but avid poets, artists, practitioners of ikebana (flower arrangement) and had surprisingly intimate relationships with other men.

yup taking down some notes will help you collect your ideas and You can later visit these ideas and explore them again.

It's been a while since I read The Glass Castle, but I think Walls' writing style was appropriate for the story she was trying to tell. It started from a child's perspective with a sense of immediacy.

Not true

DNF'd for the first time in ages with The Atlas Six. The fact that >!the 'big secret' hinted at for >50% of the book was literally in the blurb!< pushed me over the edge. Liberating!

I don’t think they are actual reviews at all. Because he praises bands like Huey Lewis and the news with glowing terms, something you would not find in magazine reviews. I think he comes up with his own opinion in the style of a legit review but his musical taste is super shallow (Huey, Phil colons, whitney Houston)

Love Catcher in the Rye. I think it is much more gauged towards certain age groups and reading it as an adult is likely different than as a similar-aged teen. I read it when I was probably 14 or so the first time and really enjoyed it. Gave me a lot to think about at that age. My sons also enjoyed it in their teens. I don't really have an issue separating a an older book's issues compared to current times. I just read books for what they are, when they are without applying today's concepts and ideologies.

Loved the book!

Sorry for your loss.

How about this:

so long - and thanks for all the fish

>When I read through Goodreads reviews, there was a lot of criticism towards the author regarding how she framed the story and the innocent nostalgia and love for her parents that was present even after everything they put them through.

Maybe they were young. I read it when I was college-aged, and I couldn't believe she still loved her parents after all that. "Why not just cut them off?" I wondered. But young people sometimes see things in black and white or absolute terms. I'm going to reread this, because my opinion has probably evolved.

Magical realism about the ocean please. Thank you!

I originally joined a meet-up book club about 7 years ago. And they're probably 10 to 15 people in it and it didn't seem to really meet often. But then there was a ice cream social made up and I ended up meeting some people there who are also book lovers. So now there are seven of us who meet regularly every month and it's been about 7 years or so. I don't think it's weird to have notes with you. With my little group we just talk about our personal lives, sometimes we have discussion questions printed from the internet about the book another times we just talk about what we liked and didn't like.

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

One Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything. Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, and so the idea was lost, seemingly for ever.

-- change a few things around to make it personal to him and that's a quote any Adam's fan would be happy with.

Thank you for this.

Hi there. Your post would be better asked in our Simple Questions thread. It helps us keep the main subreddit focused around broader discussion rather topics which only apply to an individual. Thank you!

I’m so sorry to hear about your father. I found giving my father’s eulogy last year to be very cathartic - I hope it brings you the same peace that mine did for me.

Only because you specifically said funny is okay:

How about starting it off, without preamble or explanation, with a Vogon poetry reading.

Very sorry for your loss, glad your father enjoyed great writing.

https://kirpag.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/quotes-from-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/

I mean every book has major themes you can use to rationalize the smaller events. In Of Mice and Men, why did they come to Curley's farm? Because Lenny is on the run. What theme does this inherit? That dreams are repeatedly deferred by our sometimes literal heavy-handedness. And it's a fragile, costly balance between toeing the line like George and harboring these dreams at all, like Lenny does. You can read a book at face value but if you want to teach a book you need to keep track of themes and larger conversations.

…and GRRM calls the same technique his “gardening method” of writing…throw something out there and find a use for it later.