They continue a correspondence with each about their intellectual activities and accomplishments as part of their love-hate on-again off-again relationship. She spends her time psycho-analyzing Ignatius and insisting if he just had a sexual release he would feel a lot better spiritually and mentally. Besides his mother pushing him to get a job, the reason he hatches these schemes is to get back at Myrna Minkoff, his liberalized intellectual counterpart from his college days, who thinks all the world’s problems stem around their lack of sexual freedom. He constantly convinces his employers of a variety of schemes to make improvements, only for things to go sour, which usually leads him to blame everyone else for the problems he caused in the first place. Eventually his mother forces him to get a job with predictable results as he causes chaos wherever he goes, fomenting a secret rebellion among black workers at a factory, trying to begin a revolution among homosexuals in his attempt to end all wars, and even becoming a hot dog vendor at one point where he eats more hot dogs than he sells. He attends modern cinema only to yell and criticize at the abhorrent morals in the film. He is a man-child without a job living with his mom who thinks the Catholic Church has gone soft and instead of getting a job continues to work on a book about the evils and corruption of modern society full of quotes from various medieval theologians and philosophers. Reilly is one of the most memorable characters in literature, as memorable as he is absurd. It featured a motley cast of various colorful individuals in New Orleans. I didn’t take notes.Ī Confederacy of Dunce was probably my favorite fiction book. I am not going to comment on every single book. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge by Tom Nichols.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark.The Collected Poems by Theodore Roethke.The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution by James Hannam.A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.So now for the list of books I read this year: As part of my job as a librarian and teacher I received a tremendous amount of professional development to learn how to teach virtually and I also had to develop new lessons around an entirely new school library curriculum, which now includes things like basic computer science and coding. and also mindlessly scrolling the internet, the ultimate time waster, and probably an activity that only added to my stress. Instead I have been spending my time at work (which is also technically at home), raising my children, and when those few precious moments of free time arise playing video games, watching streaming shows, listening to music. You would think that books would be a welcome solace, but as my meager list below demonstrates, I have found it a struggle to read. Like practically every other human being on the planet, I have found this year with its politics and pandemics to be some of the most stressful in my life. He encourages us to fix our eyes on Jesus and harness life's distractions so we can find joy despite our circumstances.So I haven’t posted on this blog in over a year. Catch a vision of our future, undistracted selves where we can experience true happiness and joyīob's inspiring and entertaining stories in Undistracted show us what it looks like to live a beautiful and purposeful life rather than drifting aimlessly from one season to the next.Identify the distractions in our lives and either eliminate them or route around them.Learn the destruction of distraction and the benefits of living a life of undistracted love and authentic connection.In his trademark storytelling style, Bob helps us: In Undistracted, Bob Goff lovingly yanks us back in our lane and helps us get back on track so we can live our lives with real purpose and joy. You only took your eyes off the road for a moment, but you drifted off course. You probably know what it's like to be driving down the road when you suddenly feel the vibration and hear the guh-guh-guh-guh-guh of the rumble strips-those groves in the pavement-warning you that you've drifted out of your lane.
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