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Found these questions on one of my frequent reads, The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>.\u00a0 Thought they’d be interesting to answer.<\/p>\n Q: What\u2019s the first thing you read in the morning?<\/strong><\/p>\n The Minneapolis Star-Tribune.<\/p>\n Q: What newspapers and magazines do you subscribe to or read regularly? <\/strong><\/p>\n Wired, Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, The Economist, Funny Times, The Sporting News\u00a0 (dropped this year long term subscriptions to Orion, Parabola)<\/p>\n What do you read in print vs. online vs. mobile?<\/strong><\/p>\n All of the above I read in print with modest exceptions.\u00a0 Online I read Dissent, Arts and Letters Daily, New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post and, as the election season heats up I read several political blogs (see below). \u00a0 Big Think<\/a>, TED<\/a> and Connections<\/a> give me a quick injection of creative, new ideas when I need them.<\/p>\n Q: What books have you recently read? Do they stand out?<\/strong><\/p>\n Game of Thrones<\/em> (4 volumes).\u00a0 This is one of the best written fantasy novels I’ve ever read.\u00a0 No competition for Tolkien, but very good.\u00a0 Monkeys Journey to the West<\/em>.\u00a0 Another Chinese classic, a picaresque novel about Monkey as he guards a monk journeying to India to retrieve copies of Buddhist sutras.\u00a0 The Sibling Effect<\/em>.\u00a0 Understudied in the past, this book recounts recent work on siblings.\u00a0 All Things Shining<\/em>.\u00a0 How to find resources for living in the Western classical tradition.\u00a0 Stumbled on their appreciation of the sacred and the holy.\u00a0 Reading the Classics<\/em>.\u00a0 A very good book by Italo Calvino.\u00a0 In the tradition of the Renaissance humanists.\u00a0 Ovid’s Metamorphoses<\/em>.\u00a0 As any frequent reader of this blog knows, I’m reading this one line by line in Latin and translating as I go.\u00a0 And learning Latin as I go.<\/p>\n I listened to Wolf<\/em>.\u00a0 A Booker Prize winner novel about Thomas Cromwell.\u00a0 I also listened to a lecture series on existentialism.\u00a0 Wonderful.<\/p>\n Q: Do you read blogs? If so, what blogs do you like best?<\/strong><\/p>\n The Perseus Project<\/a><\/p>\n Not a blog, but if you love the classics, especially Greek and Latin classics, this website is a goldmine of resources.<\/p>\n What Should I Be Doing With My Bees This Month?<\/a><\/p>\n A Stillwater bee-keeper with common sense advice of northern bee keeping<\/p>\n <\/p>\n All of these website offer analysis and strategic thinking about national and state level political matters.<\/p>\n Beyond the Polls, <\/a><\/p>\n Cook Report<\/a><\/p>\n Real Clear Politics<\/a><\/p>\n Politics: Analysis, Polls<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Julia Bennet<\/a><\/p>\n Blog of a philosophical Australian model.\u00a0 No kidding.<\/p>\n The Bottom of Heaven<\/a><\/p>\n An African-American woman writes this young black experience blog.<\/p>\n The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension<\/a><\/p>\n This one exists in its own dimension.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Q: Do you use Twitter? If so, whom do you follow?<\/strong><\/p>\n Twitter proved too much of a pain for me.\u00a0 Dropped it long ago.\u00a0 Facebook.\u00a0 I’m sorta there.\u00a0 Check in once in a while.\u00a0 Post less frequently than that.\u00a0 Use none of the digital sharing technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fall\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Autumn Moon Found these questions on one of my frequent reads, The Chronicle of Higher Education.\u00a0 Thought they’d be interesting to answer. Q: What\u2019s the first thing you read in the morning? The Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Q: What newspapers and magazines do you subscribe to or read regularly? Wired, Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, … Continue reading Reading Matters<\/span>