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Thank you for the kinds words.

I do use google translate but when I make a video my mind goes blank and can't remember how to pronounce the name or the word. My major problem is that learn to read by Memory and not by. pronunciation. My wife had an excellent education as a child/was in one elementary school and one high school. When I was a child growing up we moved around so many time I was never able to catch up to other children. My wife also thinks I have a learning disability. I really consider myself uneducated even though I went to a Bible College and a theological seminary. I can read but I can not pronounce the words I am reading, which is disheartening. I wish I had a silver tongue. I wish I was not so tongue tied. I am sure if I was properly educated my reading experience would be a lot richer.

@@saintonfire77 I have the same trouble when teaching in English different subjects. What I do is that I go to the translator, I listen to the sound and I repeat it . But another trick is to say just the first name and let the viewers read the last name especially when the writers are from another country. Since you always show the book, it is not difficult to read the first and the last name of the writer. You can not imagine how difficult is for us to learn the extensive English vocabulary and the phonics. In our language we have a 28 vowels and consonants and our words never change. For us English is not easy because the letters and the sounds are not always the same (phonics). PD: I am reading the life of Samuel Johnson. I got a copy in Spanish but a very high price $ 50 dollars.

Thank you for your comment. I do watch your videos. Have a good new week.

Thank you. Have a good new month. peace

Have a good nice week.

Thank you. I hope the month of September is a good one for you. peace

Thank you. Stay safe. Here in America we have reports that the OVID-19 has hit India in a terrible way. peace

@@saintonfire77 yah, This pandemic has broken everything, Stay safe, God bless you

I remember reading 'Satantango' and finding it a fascinating read. Stay safe. peace

I am enjoying reading Krasznahorkai. Did not notice the lack of periods in sentences till I watched your video. What I have read reminds me of another novel I recently read titled 'Before the Feast' by Sasa Stanisic. I can't say this novel has blown me away, but I am enjoying the story. My wife asked me the other night if I found this novel 'Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming' a difficult reading experience due to the way the novel is constructed? I said No. I am use to reading difficult literary novels especially translations. I do not see this novel having any deep moral to convey. It is just a picture of how bankrupt Hungarian culture/society has become/the world? The absurdity of modern Eastern European life/

That is a long question to answer on why I stopped going to church. Well right now most churches in USA are closed due to the OVID-19 plague. My wife's church is presently holding services morning and evening (most churches in our area only have morning services if they do have services). To be very simple on why I do not go to a visible church is because I have not found a church that I agree with spiritually or theologically. My wife has gone to church since she was a child. I did go to church for 35 years, but for the last 15 years I have decided to not attend. If I was to attend a church it would be a very conservative Calvinistic Presbyterian congregation/classical Reformed Covenantal theology etc. . . the problem now is even though I am very conservative/Bible believing I am not classically Reformed. I am not into theological systems. I would like a church that was modeled after the house churches as set forth in the New Testament, but had strong intellectual spiritual foundations. It seems to me every church/Christian community has a dogma or a view of church life that I feel uncomfortable with. In conservative Reformed churches here in America you have to swear when you join a church that you believe everything that is set forth for example in the Westminster Confession of Faith. I personally can not in good conscience swear that I believe everything taught in the Westminster Confession of Faith is biblical. Therefore I can not be a member of a conservative Calvinistic Reformed Covenantal church. I am outside American evangelical Christianity, which is mainly man-centered and not God-centered.

That is interesting. Yes I do also share your frustrations at many churches, however it seems in the USA the pressure is a bit higher to conform to a set of theological systems which can definitely be said, in the Bible, to be ambiguous at times and not at others. It seems here in the UK though that the pressure to accept a statement of faith is comparivately low in its standard compared with your experience, so it's more relaxed, but so much so over here that I feel a lot of spirituality and theology is quite apathetic, and many people in the church are uninterested in Scripture and theology and just attend church. Which I find frustrating as someone who loves intellectually delving into scripture and discussing ideas.

Hello Jonny, I have not drop you a line in a long while and saw your comment here and I just wanted to say thank you for articulating with great profundity exactly how many people, me included, that hold to reformed theology feel. The Westminster Catechism is a great thing and I completely understand why Orthodox Presbyterian churches only allow membership if you confess all contained therein, namely as a tool to keep heresy outside the door. The problem is that there are things in there like infant baptism you must affirm as a necessity, which is a hill I'm not willing to die on. Plus, cessation of spiritual gifts, which are not normative, but nor am I willing to put God in a box and close the lid on Him. With that said... What is the chief end of man ? Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. God bless you and yours Jonny, may your cup be filled to over flowing this day and for the rest of your days brother.

Outside of Christian literature I like to read biographies, memoirs, letters, and diaries. What about you favorite genre to read?

@@saintonfire77 I like biographies and diaries, too, but only about writers. I also like essays, specially about books, science, history and International relations. I prefer short stories over novels

Hi Jonny, have loved your channel since I found it back in January. Do you ever buy books from ThriftBooks? They’re inexpensive and you receive a free book after so many purchases. Try it if you haven’t already.

@@TexasMan77 No I have not bought any books from ThriftBooks. I will check them out. I have bought books online that were cheap but I usually spent six dollars in postage for a dollar book. I usually buy most of our books from local thrift stores or Amazon. Since the COVID-19 plague there have been no large used books sales and our local library used books store has been closed since March 2020. But I will check out ThriftBooks today. Thanks for stopping by. peace

I thought I had answered this question earlier, but now I do not see my answer. Yes over the many years I have been writing I have used fountain pens but found them messy. I do have a fountain pen Mont Blanc that I bought many years ago. I mainly use a felt pen fine point.

Jonny Keen MB’s are really nice and you are right, they can be messy sometimes. I don’t mind the occasional tattoos I get when using them as they are temporary.

My wife and I figure we have together around 12,000 books. How many books do you own? I know people who have more books than we do. I consider 12,000 books to be a small library. I would consider having 40,000 books a large library. If I was rich I would have a library that would be in the hundred of thousands of books. Of course there is no end to collecting books. Here is my LibraryThing site Bookmountain where my books are cataloged (my wife's books have not been cataloged)- www.librarything.com/profile/bookmountain

I do regret burning those diaries, but what can I do but live with it. I rarely if ever read my past diaries so I might have never gotten around to reading those diaries even if I had them. It is all mysterious writing a diary every day and never reading what you have written. It is a habit that I can not break. I have to write.

I keep journal because I love to write down my existence. Why not write it all down? I am not hurting anyone. Are all human beings awful things? I can read, but I can not always pronounce names or words. I am sorry I caused you to fall into a state of confusion. All we can do is be real even if at times we come off foolish. I am here to share my love for books and I suppose I won't let my verbal skill limitations prevent me from making videos. Some folks seem to have enjoyed my videos therefore I continue making them. Here in RU-vid no one is forced to watch my videos. I suggest if my videos have caused you to be confused to not watch them. Have a good new week. 24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge crookedfingers.livejournal.com/6735317.html