Reflections of Me

     I thought I'd take a bit to speak about some of my favorite books, past and present.  Well, technically, all past, since I can't very well speak of any I haven't read ( hush up, back there, Self : you always want to complicate things, don't ya? ).      I should clarify : I am not doing book reviews.  Always hated those, in school.  Somehow, I always got decent grades on mine, was never sure why.  I had no clue what I was doing.  Reading, however, has been a important part of my life since before I entered kindergarten ( back in those good old days of the 50's ).  I was lucky, I was taught to read while still quite young, and have always considered it the most important thing I ever learned.  I have always felt it helped me to enjoy so many other things later in my life, because I was fortunate in another respect.  In response to a very early question I asked when faced with a new thing to read ( ok, what i...

     We have a lot of words beginning with 're', don't we?  And, a lot of words we think should begin with 're' and don't.  Confusing, isn't it?      I hope you weren't expecting me to try to explain it.  This stuff is beyond me.  I use 'echo' when in doubt.  'Course, even that one is a tad odd.  You get a echo once ; if you do it again, is that a re-echo?      But, since a echo is a repeating sound, it therefore repeats.  But, when did it peat?      Rehearse is a fun one.  We all have a basic understanding when we hear the word 'hearse', right?  Letting myself think about it ( always a bit dangerous ) since I once did a lot of 'rehearsing', should I have been a bit frightened by describing it as such?  It rather implies that, well, we killed it once and it got hauled off in a hearse, let's murder it again and call it a 'rehearse'.  So, the more we rehe...