Brennan

Youtube-ing books and drawing badly.

[Brennan @ReadGoodDrawBad]

New video from me! Let's read together the novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh! A comical newspaper tale that is still very relevant today: https://t.co/QCldSNkJG8

[Brennan @ReadGoodDrawBad]

Ugh, new timeline please! Someone reset the timeline!

[Matthew Cole @mattbencole]

I barely survived “telling writers they have to read is gatekeeping,” I don’t think I can live through “telling writers they have to write is gatekeeping”

[Brennan @ReadGoodDrawBad]

Just finished reading this book. Loved every part of it, solid 5/5. I take umbrage at the thug-like villain having the same name as me, though!

[M. H. Foster @FosterMh613]

“Must read. The best fantasy parody I have read all year. And for several years before that.” —
@ReedsyDiscovery

Now Top 500 in the Kindle Store and climbing!

A retired Demon Overlord trying to live quietly… and not entirely succeeding.

https://t.co/YE7YmhVvM6

[Brennan @ReadGoodDrawBad]

Didn't think I'd love this book as much as I do! Reviewing the scandalous tale of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark: https://t.co/7U5rxVp9jE

[Brennan @ReadGoodDrawBad]

Come discuss Finnegan's Wake with me! https://t.co/efv3yI0PM2
#classics #jamesjoyce #booktube

[Brennan @ReadGoodDrawBad]

Come read one of the most modern adventure books of all time! Kim by Ruyard Kipling https://t.co/35Xw2vF6YK

[Brennan @ReadGoodDrawBad]

New video by me! I talk about AI, Efficiency and reading and writing! It's a bit longer than usual, but I enjoyed making this video about research and trends in AI: https://t.co/2qyxz9Jrrb

#AI #books #literature #education

[Fr. David Paternostro, SJ @DavidPaternostr]

Next time I teach logical fallacies to the freshmen, I am totally using this video

[Brennan @ReadGoodDrawBad]

Let's get excited. 🎉 Been looking forward to this.

[Brennan @ReadGoodDrawBad]

I love marked up books....i get to see what others thought was important.

[Brennan @ReadGoodDrawBad]

New book review of one of the easiest to read books on the Modern Library's 100 books list, E.M. Forster. https://t.co/fAfVhXrLXA

Do you like this book? I would love to hear your thoughts!

[Brennan @ReadGoodDrawBad]

Guys, 5 better win.

But also, these are all incredible.

[Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites]

My kids decorated pumpkins! Who would you pick to win?

[Brennan @ReadGoodDrawBad]

@Kulambq All the King's Men is such an excellent book.

[Brennan @ReadGoodDrawBad]

@stacey_hauff Never in a million years would I have done this without asking the person first. On the bright side....this is hilarious.

[noor unnahar @Noor_Unnahar]

no font was harmed while writing this piece

[Brennan @ReadGoodDrawBad]

@JaycelAdkins But research shows men and women trends towards different genres (on a whole). What's wrong with men vs women liking or reading different things? You can't tell me more men than women have read Jane Austen.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but gendered reading does exist.

[Carla Sarett @cjsarett]

Ursula K. Le Guin, “Leaves”

Years do odd things to identity.

[Old Hollow Tree @OldHollowTree]

Well, since you asked...

"Trunk-or-treat" is one of the absolute worst tragedies to befall our culture.

Do not, under any circumstances, bring your children to a "trunk-or-treat".

The practice, by which a group of parents organize to give out Halloween candy from the trunks of their vehicles in close proximity is sometimes regarded as a safer alternative to trick-or-treating, while other parents see it as an easier alternative to walking the neighborhood with their children. God forbid!

I cannot stress this enough: this is anathema to everything good about Halloween, America, Europe, Western civilization, and the entire history thereof. This, like so much of our modern culture, is a crushing force that seeks to steamroll everything into a safe, amorphous, corporate-approved blob that lacks any semblance of truth, beauty, history, identity, or tradition. We know that Halloween was historically an old Celtic pagan fire festival to mark the start of winter (forgive the oversimplification, it's just Twitter). In Scotland, Ireland, Britain et. al., from where so many of our good old traditions hail, one could expect masked youngsters impersonating mischievous spirits to throw one's plough or cart into a nasty soggy ditch or lead your horse into a neighbor’s field. There was no appeasing these mischievous ghouls back then! It was chaos! Luckily today, since about 1920 when "guising" was introduced by Irish and Scottish immigrants in Massachusetts, we can bribe the goblins with some sweets and send them on their way.

And that's just it; it's a night when children have a sense of agency and control! We adults are at their joyfully mischievous mercy! If you do not pay the sweet tithe to the fairies and ghouls, your home may well fall victim to a nasty trick (toilet paper, anyone?). This is how it should be! Halloween should not be some staid and sanitized safe little polite jaunt about the park from car trunk to car trunk; it should be a night where children run rampant, threatening to egg houses and burn the village down to the very stones if their ravenous hunger is not appeased! That is good and just and right!

Please, for the sake of tradition, history, and beauty, send your children trick-or-treating from house to house. Have them knock on doors. Encourage mischief and risk and joy. They only get a brief window when this is possible.

They only get one childhood.

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

happy #smallpoemsunday

[Rachel Christine @RachelXReads]

My father read these to me every night. I spent my childhood pretending to be in Camelot, and today, I'm a doctoral researcher studying eighteenth-century manuscripts. I now read to my own children every night. Build a legacy of great books. It makes a difference.