Story archives - tag: "reading"

Ian

When I was reading Walden on a park bench, a homeless black man walked past and said "I used to read Thoreau".

tags: homeless Thoreau reading [add]

2008-07-23 11:54:59 / Rating: 465.25 /

COD

I'm too old to read until 2 AM and still expect to be productive the next day.

tags: aging books reading [add]

2008-05-22 12:33:29 / Rating: 132.5 /

Nicole

I knew I was pronouncing "island" (is-land) wrong when I discovered the word "isle" in third grade.

tags: humor reading school childhood english [add]

2007-11-14 10:54:09 / Rating: 157.25 /

J

I can't describe it, but it was the strangest feeling when I realized I was alone in a dermatologist's office reading Kurt Vonnegut's "Fates Worse Than Death."

tags: reading realization feelings strange [add]

2006-11-01 16:19:53 / Rating: 154.75 /