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06-27-2019, 08:34 PM | #61 |
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I'm sure I got it from my mom. She got me my first library card when I was just 3 yrs old. She created a monster when she did that because I have had a life time love affair with books. I'm now 48 and still reading some 45 yrs after I got that first library card.
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I picked up book one...and never stopped reading again. Often wondered if she regretted that gift. Especially ironic because she never has been much of a reader. *The series was called "The Happy Hollisters". We let a neighbor's grandchildren borrow them, and we never got them back. I always wanted a change to revisit them as an adult. Ah well. |
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Editing to add that I just discovered there's a website https://thehappyhollisters.com Last edited by 4691mls; 06-27-2019 at 10:19 PM. |
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06-28-2019, 01:55 AM | #64 |
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What’s stopping you? The entire series is available as ebooks. Join KU and you can read them all for free .
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06-28-2019, 11:44 AM | #65 |
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Even if you don’t want to join KU, they give away one title free (almost) every Saturday.
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06-30-2019, 08:55 AM | #68 |
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Is an e-reader "screen time"?
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06-30-2019, 01:37 PM | #69 |
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How is sitting and being a couch potato watching TV any more detrimental to your well-being than sitting in the same spot and reading?
I suspect more attention grabbing by the article than much truth in it. Yes, people slow down when they get older, not because they want to, but the body just isn't as able as before. Sure, they might then spend the time watching TV. Watching TV didn't make their bodies old and weak though. Just as reading won't make them any stronger and more able to get up and do what they used to before all the aches and pains of old age set in. |
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The other thing about movies and TV that's interesting, to me at least, is that with books you can have two different styles of story telling, the first person narrative and the third person narrative. With the first person narrative the story is told by the central character as they experience it. With the third person narrative the writer tells the story; with it they can jump to different characters, and they can describe what's going on in the minds of the different characters. A movie is like a first person narrative except that everything is seen through the eyes of the camera, and as with the first person narrative we don't learn about what the characters are thinking unless they say or do something. |
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Documentaries are generally third person, in that they have a narrator describing what’s going on.
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06-30-2019, 03:06 PM | #73 |
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I would say that depends pretty heavily on what is being watched and who is doing the watching (or what is being read and who's doing the reading). I won't speak for everybody, but there's stuff I watch on television where I am waaaaaay more mentally engaged than I am when reading certain books. I'm listening to conversations, incorporating the dialog into the plot, predicting outcomes, etc... . The notion that everyone is deadly focused, and concentrating on every word as it passes their eyes when reading a book, yet are merely staring cross-eyed and slack-jawed at the pretty colors on the idiot box is pure hogwash. I am just as mentally engaged when watching TV as I am when I'm reading a book. If I weren't, I would be watching it. I'm not into mindless entertainment in any form. I enjoy thinking.
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06-30-2019, 04:31 PM | #74 | |
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While what you say is true, with a movie you're dragged along willy-nilly. If you're thinking and analyzing too much you're going to miss what's going on on the screen. With a book you can slow down or even stop reading. There's rarely a movie (that's not a comedy) where I can't invariably see places where it had flaws in the logic, but I don't really think about them until after the movie is over. While watching it I'm too busy paying attention to do that sort of analysis. And with a book you have to imagine what things look like or how they sound whereas with a movie it's all done for you. To me that's a big part of books being a less passive activity. |
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06-30-2019, 04:58 PM | #75 |
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The biggest mistake readers who visualize all the passages they're reading make is in assuming that everyone reads that way. We don't all turn books into movies that are playing in our heads (an analogy I've always found to be ironically suspect, by the way). So I can assure you that there's nothing "being done for me" when I watch TV.
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