chardman is currently reading Grammar Devotional and The Count of Monte Cristo.
I’m 46 years old, male, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since March 02, 2009. My reading interests include science fiction, religion, and christianity.
Books
- Wuthering Heights 70% complete
- The Count of Monte Cristo 32% complete
- Grammar Devotional 100% complete
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finished
- Little Women finished
- Anna Karenina finished
- Words That Matter from O, The Oprah Magazine finished
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn finished
- Emma finished
- Persuasion finished
- Sense and Sensibility finished
- Someone Will Be With You Shortly finished
- Berlitz DailyLit Spanish Lessons finished
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Pride and Prejudice finished
- Classic Shorts: Eight Stories for Summer finished
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Walden finished
- The Call of the Wild finished
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button finished
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Who is Mark Twain? finished
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Ivan the Fool finished
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The Diary of a Superfluous Man finished
- On the Decay of the Art of Lying finished
Posts
Reader Challenges - 50 Word Fright
He clicked on the link, hoping to find something original, something interesting to read. There were some good attempts. Some even humorous. But alas, in a mere 50 words, he found himself terribly disappointed. Where to now? Where to come up with five more words? There they are right here.
Walden - I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself...
Thoreau says, "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion." Indeed! He also points out that, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
This is a wonderful book detailing Thoreau's noble experiment on how we should "live simply so that that we may simply live." The first half seemed more "how-to" with some of his philosophy thrown in for good measure.
It makes me want to build my own little shack in the woods and find out how I may truly live.
Ivan the Fool - Simple Living Explained
This was a great story showing how simple living can free you. Some would probably read this as a treatise trying to promote a socialist or communist viewpoint, but I see it more from a Christian perspective. It shows how desiring a simple life can lead to 'wealth' in the ways that truly matter. It was an ironic twist that the "fools" seemed to be the wisest people in the story.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #70: Day Jobs
Given what he said in "Walden", it seems ironic that Thoreau even had a day job!
Reader Challenges - Your Words That Matter
It's better to be know for what you stand for rather than what you stand against.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #52: Happy Birthday Mr. Twain
I'm going to go with this one:
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
Mark Twain
Reader Challenges - 6 Word Autobiography
Only need two words: Loved God.
The Diary of a Superfluous Man - Superfluous, indeed...
I might be too used to a nice, clean, Hollywood ending, but this seemed to end abruptly. Many questions unanswered. What was Tchulkaturin’s illness? Why did Liza marry Bizmyonkov? Did she need to marry to cover up some disgrace? (Like carrying the Prince’s child?) The weather mentioned at the beginning of each diary entry did foretell the mood of the entry to follow and of what must’ve been going on in Tchulkaturin’s heart. Good read, but a bit superfluous...