📚THIS WEEK’S (VERY SHORT!) SHORT STORY:
“For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn” is a famous six-word story often attributed to Ernest Hemingway. The story is a thought exercise that forces the reader to use their imagination. The rest is up to YOU. What are the possibilities? What could it mean? Before you Google it or ChatGPT it, THINK about it. 💡🧠
📘HOW TO READ SHORT STORIES
https://youtu.be/HA8Q-ECwk70?is=HNgxHby6xbDFc8ya
📚🍺Books ‘n Beer- Invisible Cities: continuing work this week.
As I recently said, this was a tough book to read. So, I bought this hard cover version and will continue working on it for the next few weeks. (Again, this book is not recommended for ESL learners. Perhaps, just perhaps in your native language??) 😉
📚SUMMER READING: ‘EPICAC’ 💻
Reading definitely slows down during the summer! Even so, a student read ‘EPICAC’ by Kurt Vonnegut this week. It is long for one of our short audio stories. But, it is a fun and interesting early look at AI with a big question: Can computers ‘feel’ real love? Some of EPICAC’s (The AI) last words: […]
📚🍺BOOKS n’ BEER: INVISIBLE CITIES by Calvino
Invisible Cities is a 1972 novel by Italo Calvino, where the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan talks with the explorer Marco Polo. As the emperor feels his empire is falling apart, Marco tells him stories about 55 strange and beautiful cities, each one a dream-like place that makes you think about memory, desire, and what it means […]
📚🍻’BOOKS ‘n BEER this week: ‘In Watermelon Sugar.’
Here we are yesterday at the bar, struggling with ‘In Watermelon Sugar’ by Richard Brautigan. Its a sort of dystopian-utopia story and one of the craziest things I have ever read. But, very interesting! The papers are some AI analyses on the book, which often turn out to be wrong! You can see some of […]
📚🌍MY TOP (BOOK) READERS? WHERE ARE THEY FROM?
Some of my top readers over the past two years so far have been from these countries: Currently, there is a ‘man on the move’ from Italy with 26 books read!
📚🔊MOST POPULAR AUGUST BOOKS ON GOODREADS
https://www.goodreads.com/book/legacy_popular_by_date/2026/August
📚🍻BOOKS ‘n BEER: IN WATERMELON SUGAR🍉
In Watermelon Sugar is a strange and dreamy novel by Richard Brautigan, published in 1968. It takes place in a gentle, mysterious world where almost everything is made from watermelon sugar—houses, furniture, even a dress. The story follows an unnamed narrator as he remembers his past, his lost love Margaret, and the violent trouble caused by […]
📙 SUMMER READING: KEEP IT SHORT!
📙 THIS WEEK I AM READING: ‘In Watermelon Sugar’ a very weird dystopia-utopia book from 1968. The book has been a fun challenge so far and maybe the best part about reading it in the summer: It’s only 144 pages! (Not recommended for ESL students in English. Buuut: possibly in your native language? Maybe not […]
📚SUMMER ‘READING’ :)
SUMMER READING: It’s summer. For the third summer in a row, the short story reading program has definitely slowed down. No surprise. 🙁 However, consistency is key and I personally read one small book per week, even in the summer. (Even I missed reading last week though. Lol) Some good news!: A student that has […]