Read To Me Tuesday

chula:

RTMT

“A Little Bit Of Everything For Dummies”

Yet another book spinoff from the For Dummies series.  See also: Word for Dummies, Guitar For Dummies, Spanish For Dummies, Etc.

This is Mimi’s attempt to help bring RTMT back.

(oh, and in classic RTMT fashion…I got cut off)

shorterexcerpts:

Continuing in my efforts to bring back Read To Me Tuesday, here’s me reading the opening paragraphs of Donald Barthelme’s short story “Chablis” in a slightly butchered northern English accent (blame Sean Bean, and my rewatching of Game of Thrones.)

jumana:

I finished studying for my exam tomorrow. Finally. I’m not usually one who stays up late to study. I just don’t do that. But I accidentally fell asleep earlier in the evening, so here I am now finishing up for my very last exam before Hajj break.

I got a little bored while studying, so I made a little recording of me reading a small part of my course book, Concepts of Programming Languages. And since it’s a Tuesday, I figured why not post this as a RTMT submission. The most boring one, I bet. Though, their tumblr hasn’t been active for a while now.

By the way, it isn’t as bad as it might sound. :P 

shorterexcerpts:

RTMT - Another bit from Then We Came To The End.

shorterexcerpts:

RTMT - The opening paragraph from Joshua Ferris’s Then We Came To The End.

fleetfootedfox:

Read To Me Tuesday - Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong

86400 is gone, so the meme must live on! With violent predator/prey passages, for my part.

fleetfootedfox:

Read To Me Tuesday: In The Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

WHITE

WHALE

HOLY

GRAIL

sarawisdom:

me reading aloud from shades of grey by jasper fforde. it’s quiet so turn your speakers up or something. :’(

(i just felt like reading aloud okay)

Intro to “A Peking  Murder” by Paul French

Bejing: Portrait of a City

Hong Kong: Middle Kingdom Bookworm, 2008

A Good Angler Is… from Sport Fishing and Aquatic Resources Handbook

theonlyamaris:

a little RTMT action…

“overheard on a saltmarsh” by harold monroe.

you can totally hear me mess up at one point ha ha.

eush:

A lot of the lyric poetry we’ve been reading in class deals with how short youth is and how awful being old is. Mimnermus practically says ‘I hope I die before I get old’. Semonides of Amorgos, in the following poem read and translated by Edmund Keeley, takes a somewhat more optimistic approach: when you know that life is short (and this is pretty hard to know, since young people think they will be young and awesome forever), go do fun things. At least that’s how I’m taking it.

The man from Chios called Homer said a beautiful thing:
“The generations of men are like the leaves of a tree.”
Few mortals who’ve heard this take it to heart:
all men carry the hope rooted in their youth.
While mortals are still living in youth’s lovely flowering,
light-headed, their hearts cling to many vain things:
they won’t grow old, they’ll never die,
and being healthy, why give sickness a moment’s thought?
Fools to think that way, they don’t yet know
how quickly time moves for mortals, how short the young days.
But since you know this now that your end is near,
treat yourself entirely to what good things there are.

from Poems Out Loud.

Since no one really read yesterday, here are some links to keep you satisfied until next Tuesday.

shorterexcerpts:

RTMT - from Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

86400:

from the Wikipedia article on Joshua Blahyi, a.k.a. General Butt Naked.

Proof that truth is stranger and more horrifying than fiction.

raelee:

Read to Me Tuesday: Ogden Nash’s The Germ, in honor of my current germ.