Showing posts with label reading plan for the self-quarantined. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 10, 2020

A reading plan to keep your mind busy and even distracted during your self-quarantine

You must like words or you wouldn't be reading blogposts and writing your own blogposts, so as a service to word-lovers everywhere who are either considering self-quarantine during the coronovirus scare or have already taken the plunge, here is a reading plan to keep your mind busy and even distracted:

Day 1 - "21 Rhetorical Devices Explained"

Day 2 - "43 Embarrassing Grammar Mistakes Even Smart People Make"

Day 3 - "The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior"

Day 4 - "How Non-English Speakers Are Taught This Crazy English Grammar Rule You Know But Have Never Heard Of"

Days 5 through 14 - One story a day from this collection of 10 short stories by Flannery O'Connor (see Note)

You're welcome.

At the end of the 14 days, one of two things may happen. Either your mind will have been so expanded that your own family will no longer recognize you, or you will never again be tempted to consider putting yourself through a 14-day self-quarantine period. In rare instances, both will happen

Whatever happens, I cannot be held responsible.

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Note. The 10 stories by Flannery O’Connor are all in one long scrollable file. To make things a bit easier for those of you who actually want to read them, here are their locations within the file. You should know that not all of the stories begin at the top of a page:

A Good Man Is Hard To Find - p.5
The River - p.33
The Life You Save May Be Your Own - p.64
A Stroke Of Good Fortune - p.84
A Temple Of The Holy Ghost - p.106
The Artificial Nigger - p.129
A Circle In The Fire - p.166
A Late Encounter With The Enemy - p.199
Good Country People - p.217
The Displaced Person - p.253

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