read someone's beads

Verb

 * 1)  To read someone; to call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
 * 2) * 1976-1977, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
 * He began to read our beads saying he's observed us often & he sees J as "a villain," not very flexible or open & a cynical person. But he sees me as a man with a sense of humor, much more open to different things, that J can't adjust to change.