January 29, 2023, Sunday afternoon -- Reading Derek Sivers
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January 18, 2023 - Wednesday evening - - Reading Randi Zuckerberg
It has been so long since I've posted a reader. At work I'm giving final exams and not teaching lessons and Lunar New Year's break is coming up and suddenly my mind is open and free.
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July 28, 2022 - Thursday afternoon -- Reading Thomas E. Wartenberg
In Rockridge, a neighborhood in Oakland, enjoying a coffee on a sidewalk
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July 6, 2022, Wednesday afternoon - Reading Aqiyl Aniys
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June 21, 2022, Tuesday afternoon -- Reading J. Leigh Brown
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May 5, 2022, Thursday evening -- Reading Kristin Neff, Ph.D.
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November 17, 2021, Wednesday afternoon -- Reading Jiang Zongfan
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October 29, 2021, Friday afternoon
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October 16, 2021, Saturday afternoon - Reading Virginia Woolf and Kyoko Fukuchi
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October 10, 2021, Sunday evening
In New Taipei City, Taiwan
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March 7, 2021, Sunday afternoon
In Taichung on the grounds of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. I photographed these readers months ago and, because I was busy with work and other things. They were so nice and spoke English to me. Don't ask me what the translated titles of the books are, though....
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October, 23, 2020, Friday afternoon -- Reading a book in Chinese
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August 5, 2020, Wednesday afternoon -- Reading Geoff Dyer
At the edge of the park
He is reading Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence, by Geoff Dyer. The book makes him happy. It's funny and it cheers him up. This is not his first time reading it.
Geoff Dyer is one of his favorite authors. He also likes Thomas Bernhard, Milan Kundera, Michel Houellebecq, and Vladimir Nabokov.
He is Austrian and reads in Spanish, German, and English. When he reads in Spanish he reads slower than in English and German. Some of his favorite authors to read in Spanish are Roberto Bolaño and Jorge Luis Borges.
He asked me why I started doing the blog and I told him that 14 years ago I was working on a novel that I never finished. He told him that this book he's reading right now -- Out of Sheer Rage -- is perfect for me, because it's about an author who wants to write something, but just moves and moves from one place to another, like Rome where it's too hot to write, and doesn't do it.
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August 2, 2020, Sunday evening -- Reading Apartamento
In a park I had never been to before (Covid lockdown has opened up so many new things in my world -- my friends and I were looking for a park that wouldn't be too busy to eat takeout in)
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July 31, 2020, Friday afternoon -- Reading Paolo Bacigalupi
On a warm afternoon
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June 29, 2020, Monday afternoon -- Reading Michelle Obama
On a beautiful afternoon
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June 27, 2020, Saturday morning -- Reading Eduardo Galeano
At a Mexican restaurant in the Mission District - chips and salsa al fresco, and a book!
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May 9, 2020, Saturday morning -- Reading Carmen Maria Machado
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April 29, 2020, Wednesday morning -- Reading Torcuato Luca De Tena
He is reading Los Renglones Torcidos de Dios, by Torcuato Luca De Tena. The title translates into God's Crooked Lines. It's about a detective in a mental hospital.
His favorite book is Marina, in Spanish, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
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March 30, 2020, Monday morning -- Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates
I have taken a lot of pleasure in books during this time. Right now I am listening to the audio book The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. It's a surrealist book set in the United States before the Civil War. It's a completely different world than the world we live in right now.
I listen while I walk around my neighborhood and cross and re-cross the street to maintain distance between walkers, joggers, cyclists, and homeless encampments. I feel fortunate to have shelter while we shelter in place, and plenty of soap and water to wash my hands with.
I also listen to my book while I walk up and down my backstops for exercise, so that I can be in good enough shape to walk up to the teachers room on the 10th floor when I return to work.
I wish you strength, health, and peace, and lots of good books.
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