― Maria D. (Maria D.), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)
― Fred (Fred), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)
She was a children's librarian and I was a drama geek at one time, so we both take pleasure in reading aloud. The poetry I've written has always had a strong emphasis on how it would sound as a reading. It seems to me that this is one of the foundation stones of pleasure in reading and writing.
― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)
― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 6 January 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)
But I am in favour of reading aloud, I think. My mother read me The Hobbit when I was a little boy. That means a lot to me. Recently I heard my father read aloud a paragraph from The Corrections, and was struck by the pause in rapid modern time, the old-fashioned silence around his words.
― the bellefox, Thursday, 6 January 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)
― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 10 January 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)
I thought this thread was going to be about us all getting together and reading aloud to each other as a kind of social activity.
As part of the proofreading course I'm doing you have to correct some Jane Austen. If you read it aloud it's relatively easy to see where the mistakes are. I suppose this is cheating.
― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 10 January 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)
Miller, you are droll, about the coma, and the newspaper.
I don't want us all to read to each other.
Jaq, maybe you could coo your husband to sleep with engineering texts? Or the details and statistics from blueprints?
― the bellefox, Monday, 10 January 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)
― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 10 January 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)
I am serious.
― the bellefox, Monday, 10 January 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)
― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Friday, 4 February 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 10 February 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)