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2023 Weekly Check-Ins
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Week 8: 2/16 - 2/23
I agree that Allegiant ended with all the characters being who they were from the start. I think that Mocking Jay did that too, but Katniss' life was more traumatic than Tris' leaving a depressing ending.
Hi all! Snowy/sleety last night, all gone this afternoon. Kiddo has been on winter break this week. I've kept her busy this week with help (thanks grandmas!!). Tomorrow is the only day I don't have anything planned. Maybe we'll stay home and bake cookies or something. I finished Dear Justyce this week. Not sure what prompt, maybe a book I meant to read last year. Actually, I started it last summer... It got a lot better in the second half. I think I preferred Dear Martin, but Justyce was good, too.
I'm currently reading When Christ and His Saints Slept, really liking it.
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story for celebrity memoir. I already have a gripe, though. If each chapter is named after a U2 song, shouldn't the first chapter be "One"? lol
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War very interesting people.
I've also gotten back into Les Miserables. I'm kinda over the part I'm at, but I shall persevere.
QOTW: I'm a curmudgeon and my only social media is goodreads. I do occasionally look at bookpage.com. I'm always browsing news for articles about books and especially book banning.
Dubhease wrote: "10. A movie related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities" - The Menu (Scary)."What did you think of The Menu??
Happy Thursday. I’m still home. This is one nasty cold. I’m finally seeing the end of the tunnel though. After some night sitting up on the couch because of coughing fits, I’m stopped the decongestant meds today. I’m only coughing in small spurts after long stretches of time.
I’ve been binge watching anime for the last few days.
I finished one book that I can remember. I think it’s for Aty. The ‘W’ one. Why Shouldn’t a Detestable Demon Lord Fall in Love?! Vol. 1
There might be more but I’m sorta just blah still. I just want to get over this cold.
QOTW:
I have like every newsletter that book publishers put out and on Facebook as well. There are a lot of sweepstakes and giveaways posted on them.
Bea wrote: "The Christmas Bookshop – ATY. No prompts. I enjoyed this story of a woman who always felt inadequate and who saw her life as a failure. Carmen loses her job and has to move into the home of her perfect sister, who sets her up for a job in a failing bookstore. This story is how her life turns around and how the bookstore is saved. Lots of fun. Lots of interesting characters. Lots of angst…and I rooted for Carmen through it all. Loved it. 4*"OOHHH Thanks for this!! I need a book with a character that has my name for a Bingo Challenge and this sounds *perfect*
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Yes that was so disappointing!! I really wanted to love it, but it just kept letting me down.
and the endless question about whether audiobooks count (Of course they do!).
LOL why does that question get asked ALL THE TIME?? It keeps getting posted on the Popsugar FB group. I'm starting to wonder if these people are just trolling at this point.
LOL so I've been watching Dawson's Creek and I told my dad that I plan to watch the entire series. He called me obsessed. I shrugged it off and told him casually that people binge-watch like that all the time. Obsessed, maybe a little, but that's why they call it binge-watching, right? How else are we supposed to get back to good old-fashioned nostalgia or catch up on shows? I don't know about you all, but I can barely sit through regular tv anymore. I don't have the patience for commercials and I don't have the patience to wait weekly per episode. Even when I watch Superman & Lois, I record it so I can skip the commercials (and that's the only show I watch anymore).
Well, I'm starting to get together the books I read for February so I can share them on my socials. I love doing end-of-the-month book reviews. Also starting to plan out my reading list for the month of March. These are the two/three books I have planned so far:
1. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
2. Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
3. Wrapped/Surprise book (TBD)
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Sounds like you might enjoy reading The Violin Conspiracy! It's a pretty basic mystery about who stole Ray's Stradivarius, but he mentions a lot of classical pieces played on violin. There's even a Spotify soundtrack put together by the author.
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I've been eyeing that one! I find I really enjoy nonfiction graphic novels.
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GASP!!! Yeah I think a detour was a good plan! And then you still went back for more another day - now THAT is dedicated birding!!!
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Oh I'm glad that link worked!! I wasn't sure if it would!
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New jobs are so stressful.
I just want a chronological timeline on all my social media thanks.
YES! How is it that all social media is moving away from the clear, crisp, chronological newsfeed??? It's making me less and less interested in all of them.
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YES!! My 19 year old daughter argues with me about this. But I stand adamantly with Team Gale.
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Thank you! and I'm glad the link is working! does it let you click through to see the purple one that was supposed to be a spider web but came out looking more like a slide of red cabbage haha?
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I cannot disagree with most of these!! A lot of that stuff made me unhappy too, and I had forgotten some of it. But I didn't end the book sorry I had read it, like i did with Allegiant. I guess I felt that - even though I didn't LIKE Katniss's choices - they were choices that followed naturally from the events in the story.
And I thought Tris's choice was needless and did not automatically follow from everything else that was happening. I never liked Tris anyway. Honestly I'm not sure how I felt about Four in the books because HELLO THEO JAMES and now I love Four and can't remember how I felt before I saw the movie.
That might be a good discussion question sometime - can you enjoy a book if you hate the ending?
LOL yes that could be a fun topic!!
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I was an actor for Children's Hour (if you ever grab the script and read it, I played Agatha!) and I'll be stage managing the upcoming production of Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery :)
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ahhhh! so you do it ALL! very cool!
Nadine in NY wrote: "Let us know if you want to step up and lead the discussion of The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea...."I mistakenly thought we were reading The girl Who Fell From the Sky, so I was holding onto it. *sigh* Guess it's time to return it to the library!
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This book keeps catching my attention, but then I look at it more closely and think "ehh maybe not." I think I just like the title!
Nadine in NY wrote: "Mary wrote: "... I also think she should've ended up with Gale. ..."YES!! My 19 year old daughter argues with me about this. But I stand adamantly with Team Gale."
Ew, team Gale. 🤣
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I woke up to all the trees coated beautifully in ice, and tinkling eerily, and they have STAYED coated in ice ALL DAY. It's crazy. It's drizzling ice out there again now. But down in Binghamton, the ice was gone in the morning.
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story for celebrity memoir. I already have a gripe, though. If each chapter is named after a U2 song, shouldn't the first chapter be "One"? lol
That seems so obvious that I am now angry that they did not do that, and I'm not even reading the book!!!!
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YES!! My 19 year old daughter argues with me about this. But I stand adamantly with Team Gale."
Ew, team Gale. 🤣..."
LOL!! You can go sit on that Peeta bench w/ my college daughter then!! (The 17 yo daughter agrees with me though!!)
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I’m still home. This is one nasty cold. I’m finally seeing the end of the tunnel though. After some night sitting up on the couch because of coughing fits, I’m stopped the deconge..."
I hope you have some good sleep coming in your near future!! Those long nights up coughing are the pits.
We're still having the bouncing weather which is playing havoc with my destroyed knee. It's even cutting into my reading time thanks to pain. I did get some done though.Long story short, I chose I, Robot by Isaac Asimov for A book you should have read in high school for rather sad (and now silly) reasons. In h.s. I didn't have a lot of friends (being a comic book, dungeons & dragons, SF geek in the early 80s and being female on top of it) I was the only girl in the SF/F reading group and the boys loved this (and the foundation series). I didn't like that and I really tried to read I, Robot. Nope, couldn't do it. I pretended I did so they'd keep talking to me.
So I said I read it back then and lied. Now was the time. Yeah still didn't like it (and skimmed a few of them). Forty years didn't make it better.
QOTW Honestly I don't have too many that aren't other challenges more in genres than prompts, like literary escapes, cloak and dagger and the alphabet challenges all on FB. I use netgalley for arcs but I don't hang out over there. I have an ungodly of author newsletters but most end up deleted unread.
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Yeah, we pretty much watch streaming all the time now. Sometimes it's Netflix originals (like You and Wednesday), sometimes it's regular shows that are now collected on Hulu (like Dollhouse and Abbot Elementary)
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I mistakenly thought we were reading The girl Who Fell From the Sky, so I ..."
Wow do you know there are at least EIGHT books titles "The Girl Who Fell From the Sky"?!?! I guess "The Girl Who ..." is a popular title, because of course there's The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making and SO MANY MORE I'm not even going to list them all.
Nadine in NY wrote: "Jennifer W wrote: "Hi all! Snowy/sleety last night, all gone this afternoon. Kiddo has been on winter break this week. I've kept her busy this week with help (thanks grandmas!!). Tomorrow is the on..."That's funny that you've had ice all day. Did power go out up there? I think it's supposed to snow a bit overnight.
I didn't notice the option to scroll through pictures, but I will go check!
EDIT: Nope, just the one.
I texted my brother about Bono's book and his (completely dry) response was "that's it, take it back." Lol, I'm not actually that bothered by that choice, it just seems funny to me. And I've been listening to One (and also Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, a very underrated song of theirs if I do say so myself) while I've been reading.
And count me on team Gale!
Hello! The blizzard warning has expired, and we never really got the blizzard anyway. My area got maybe a foot of snow over the three days, with some impressive drifts around our garage and truck. Farther south got 20 inches of snow, which my husband is glad he didn't need to clear away. We actually lost power for a few hours right when the snow started on Tuesday, which was really odd, because all the bad blizzard conditions didn't hit until Wednesday afternoon.I made a quick dash to the library Tuesday at lunch time, after they reopened from being closed on President's Day and before they closed for the blizzard on Wednesday. I had finished some books and needed to restock before the bad weather.
Finished This Week:
The Stars Undying by Emery Robin. Retelling of Cleopatra and Caesar - in space! - that was incredibly true to their story, far more than I was expecting. I liked the explanation of how certain things happened, but was disappointed that with all the clever renaming of people, she just called Caesar's cousin "Octavio." Four stars, and I'll probably read the sequel to see what happens with the Marc Antony character. Using for PS #14, Modern Retelling of a Classic, although I'll probably find something else for that prompt eventually.
Ozy and Millie: Perfectly Normal by Dana Simpson. Book Riot's Read Harder newsletter said this was a completed webcomic, so I read it. It's not really a story from start to finish, but lots of comics about slice of life with two fox children who are anything but perfectly normal. Very cute and easy read, finished in an maybe an hour. Not for PS prompt, but using for Read Harder #5, A Completed Webcomic.
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel. My mom had a friend recommend this to her after we had both read The Nightingale. Mom read it months ago, but my library hold finally came in. After The Nightingale, which was longer and more grim, this one was harder to appreciate. I was very annoyed with the main character's mother, who didn't seem to grasp what being Jewish in France after the Nazi occupation really meant. After so many books where everyone in Nazi occupied zones seem to know exactly how terrible everything in, I didn't find characters who thought the world was still fine believable. I'm sure those people existed, but I can't see a Polish Jewish woman as one of those people. And that took off a star for me. A good story, but the mother ruined it. Using for PS #6, About a Forbidden Romance, because the main character is Jewish and she falls for a Catholic (gasp!).
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree. After being disappointed by the last book, I wanted something fun and light (and that I already owned). I found this one on my Kindle and had a very enjoyable evening. I see I read it a few months early for the group, but should be able to join the group read discussion when we get there. Using for PS #27, a BookTok rec.
PS: 13/50
RH: 1/24
ATY: 13/52
Mount TBR: 3/24
Goodreads: 27/150
Currently Reading:
Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews. Listening to the audiobook of the first Kate Daniels and have 2 hours left. I really have forgotten a lot of early Kate.
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan. No progress made. Need to get back to it.
Up Next:
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton. Just got it this afternoon from the library, so will probably start it tonight.
QotW: What other bookish social media or blogs do you use regularly?
I don't especially frequent other places that are book discussions. I mostly follow a lot of my favorite authors, especially on Twitter, if they're still posting there. I check Ilona Andrews' blog daily, which is usually a treat. Seanan McGuire is a lot of fun on twitter as well. I know I found Lillie Lainoff and S.L. Huang because of their Twitter presence.
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Long story short, I chose I, Robot by Isaac Asimov for A book you should have read in high school for rather sad (and now silly) reasons. In h.s. I didn't have a lot of friends (being a comic book, dungeons & dragons, SF geek in the early 80s and being female on top of it) I was the only girl in the SF/F reading group and the boys loved this (and the foundation series). I didn't like that and I really tried to read I, Robot. Nope, couldn't do it. I pretended I did so they'd keep talking to me. ..."
Oh we are the same age, I was in high school in the early 80s, too. I read the Foundation trilogy back then, and really liked it.
I decided a few years ago to read & re-read the entire Robot / Empire / Foundation series in order. I obviously started with the Robot books. Daneel is great and all, and I always enjoy a mystery, but good LORD was Asimov sexist. I had to stop after the third Robot book and I gave up on re-reading the rest. I didn't notice the sexism when I was a kid, but I sure notice it now. You must have picked up on it back then, you were more astute than I was.
It is super cold here! I'm not a winter person and I'm especially not a rain/snow/sleet person. Just yucky weather all around. Finished:
The Appeal: really fun mystery! very much enjoyed
The Secret to Superhuman Strength: I liked it, but it wasn't as compelling as Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
QOTW:
Besides goodreads, I follow some book or book adjacent accounts on youtube, tiktok, and instagram. And I listen to a couple book podcasts. Goodreads is the only place where I'm a contributor though; the others are more passive consumption.
Happy Thursday! After having basically no plans, or cancelled plans, for the last two months it looks like March is going to be super busy. Between friends visiting from out of town and some shows I'm excited for, it should hopefully be a fun time. I think I have to double up on my vitamin c so I don't come down with something before then. (or maybe just start getting normal amounts of sleep at night)Finished:
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower- this was a really good book, part memoir part examination of the intersection of race and feminism.
- no prompt for me, but could be used for "only text on cover"
Beautiful Country- this was a great memoir. Qian Julie Wang is so good at showing how confusing the world can be for a child. She's able to capture how things felt to her growing up in such an affecting way. Towards the end I had to pause reading until I got home, cause I was starting to have to many feelings. Really good memoir.
-30 A book that's on a celebrity book-club list
Currently Reading:
Always Never- a sweet little French graphic novel I will probably finish after dinner. I just need something light and cute
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook- currently listening to this. I love Anthony Bourdain. There are definitely some moments where you can tell it was written a decade ago, but for the most part it's been very fun.
House of Earth and Blood- I find Sarah J Maas books super entertaining, but I'm not super sold on this one yet. Reading it for my friend though, so I'm going to keep giving it a shot
Exhalation- still working through these short stories. Got sidetracked last week.
QotW:
I follow some bookish accounts on youtube- that's probably my main other place. I follow about 6 accounts, all with very different main focuses on genres. One reads mainly eastern European books, one loves scifi, one loves translated books and experimental literary books. One I follow just posted a video about "Middle Grade March" where you're meant to read middle grade books, and she mentioned so many books I haven't heard of that sound really great. Between youtube and here, my tbr is constantly out of control
Nadine in NY wrote: "Cornerofmadness wrote: "We're still having the bouncing weather which is playing havoc with my destroyed knee. It's even cutting into my reading time thanks to pain. I did get some done though.Lo..."
Yeah even then the sexism was pretty awful (I was always pretty attuned to it because I went on career paths that women often didn't so I got hit with that all the time). I mean I give him credit for at least trying to put a woman in there but man it wasn't good. Many of the early SF writers were as bad or worse which is what I think pushed me more heavily into my other love, mysteries
Carmen wrote: "Dubhease wrote: "10. A movie related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities" - The Menu (Scary)."What did you think of The Menu??"
I almost don't know how I feel. It was supposed to be a horror comedy, but it neither made me laugh nor did it scare me. I thought it would be a slow burn movie, but it ramped up pretty quick (view spoiler) But the tension just stayed there with no ups and downs.
The over all idea and the segments with the title cards with the courses and what was served was great. It was well acted. (view spoiler)
Sometimes I finish books or movies and I just think "WTF was that?" The Menu was one of those movies.
Happy Thursday. So I hit the book sale table at my library this week (again) and my sister asked me why I would pay for a book instead of just borrowing it for free, and I honestly don't have an answer. It made sense at the time?Stats
PS: 12/50
ATY: 18/100
Nadine's Mini Challenge: 8/10
Tarot: 11/22
Goodreads Choice: 4/30
TBR: 3/10
Books I finished:
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive ⭐⭐⭐
ATY: Tinker, Tailor Soldier Spy
I have read so many WW2 books, and yet I hadn't come across this particular story before.
Disney Manga: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Zero’s Journey ⭐⭐⭐
PS: Pet character.
It's a middle grade manga. The artwork is great, it's fun to be back in Halloweentown/Christmastown but there was almost no story. Major dissappointment.
Major Operation ⭐⭐⭐⭐
I had read this one before. And the series really did keep getting better with each book. But now I want to keep going with the series, and my library has apparently gotten rid of their copies of the next few books in the series, and none of the other libraries in my province have them either. And I can't find it for order from the bookstore.🤬
Norse Mythology, Vol. 1 & Norse Mythology, Vol. 2 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Nadine's Challenge: Norse mythology.
I read the regular book back in December, and I actually prefer the graphic novel version.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built ⭐⭐⭐⭐
PS: Fav past challenge - Robot character
It's official. I have to track down everything Becky Chambers has written and read it.
Books in progress:
Is There Bacon in Heaven?: A Memoir (The aforementioned library book)
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
Be the Serpent
QotW
Goodreads and Ilona Andrews blog are the only ones I visit.
Nadine in NY wrote: "Happy Thursday! Here we are staring down the end of another month. We've continued to have a very mild winter here in central New York - in fact, most of winter has felt like spring, although we..."Your dragon shirt is fantastic!
And Corning Glass Museum was always an exciting treat when I was a kid ... I really need to revisit it as it has been many decades.
Greetings all! I was distracted with work today, shutting down early as I was seeing Phantom of the Opera on Broadway one last time (closes April 16th), curtain was at 7 and we wanted dinner beforehand. Plus I had 80 pages to finish in a book (and made it before midnight). I first saw Phantom in 1988 with the original cast. Have been back multiple times over all the years, last was I think December 2018. It is spectacular every single time - every Phantom, Christine, and Raoul bring a different interpretation, all wonderful. Our seats were 3rd row center orchestra, directly in front of our seats in 1988, and that chandelier dropped right over our heads! If we had been standing we could have touched it.PS 19/50. ATY 22/52.
Finished:
The Turn of the Screw -PS should have read in high school. ATY - novella. gave it a 1 star review.
Matthew by Grace Burrowes - 2nd in Jaded Gentlemen series and should be read together with 1st as it completes a story arc. No prompts, I just desperately needed a regency romance wallow after the Henry James.
The Marlow Murder Club edgar nominee and terrific - PS same initials but reversed (my challenge, my rules). ATY book that is light
The Casual Vacancy - PS independent bookstore. ATY - Book by author read last year. Loved this! Would also fit ATY book that is dark.
Currently reading:
Axel by Grace Burrowes - 3rd in series
Hamnet
Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons
QOTW: Don't read or listen to any.
Well, I'm going to be busy for the next two weeks. Aside from two of my other assignments for my finals, in my 3rd one, I have a 1,500-word essay I need to write, and that's just the minimum amount of words so I might have to make it even longer.I've already started on a draft and I'm at 495. Good thing I have 2 weeks, this is going to take forever!
Managed to pick up my reading pace a bit in February, so here's hoping that continues!Finished:
If We Were Villains for A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past challenge (A dark academia book)
A Winter's Tale for A book with a love triangle
24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There for A book that takes place entirely in one day
Cat Among the Pigeons - not for the challenge
Slippery Creatures for A book that was self-published
On Wilder Seas: The Woman on the Golden Hind for A book by a first-time author
The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde for A book about a family
Haven't started anything new yet, but planning to pick up Under the Whispering Door next, which is on the listopia for A book with a pet character
QOTW:
I follow Book Riot on Facebook, but don't always find their posts especially interesting. I also follow the Modern Mrs Darcy blog, and listen to the connected podcast 'What Should I read Next?', which I've got lots of book recs from! :)
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yes I woke up to snow flurries and it's snowing harder now. The trees are still coated with ice and now that ice has snow on it - so far nothing has broken, and we have not lost power!! In my little neighborhood the power lines are underground, but the main power lines coming in are up above ground, so if they get knocked down, we are all out. It's going to get cold tonight too!! so I really hope we don't lose power!! Looks like it will snow all day tomorrow and then warm up on Sunday - haha that might be the day I finally venture down my driveway to get my empty garbage can and bring it back to the house.
Gemma wrote: "I follow Book Riot on Facebook, but don't always find their posts especially interesting...."I used to read Book Riot regularly but they just started to seem really repetitive in their posts, and it's like there were certain books they were pushing so they framed all their content around them.
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Yeah the mom was unrelentingly awful, and I didn't understand why Harmel wrote her like that. It was for almost the entire book, the mom just verbally attacking her daughter. I'm sure many people at that time at first thought things wouldn't get so bad - Maus handles that really well. But the way her mom blamed her for everything was over the top.
I have the same criticism of The Violin Conspiracy - like, dang, his mom just did NOT let up. There was no goodness at all in her, she just hated on her son, for no reason. Why did the author write her like that??
Nadine in NY wrote: "Melissa wrote: "The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel. ... I was very annoyed with the main character's mother ..."Yeah the mom was unrelentingly awful, and I didn't understand why Harmel wr..."
I am listening to The Violin Conspiracy right now and I have the same issue. The rest of the aunts and uncles are awful enough, but the mom is the most upsetting.
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Yeah even then the sexism was pretty awful (I was always pretty attuned to it because I went on career paths that women often didn't so I got hit with that all the time)."
No, I was just oblivious back then. I accepted it as normal. Luckily, I did not accept it as fact, I was mostly able to just ignore it. I am an engineer, I am definitely used to being the only woman in the room! It is exhausting to constantly be doubted, but I'm used to it and I never internalized it.
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Last time I was there was sometime around the early 90s I think. It's quite different now!! I think it's even in a different building.
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I used to read Book Riot regularly but they just started to seem really repetitive in th..."
I used to read them regularly, too, then something changed and I can't figure out what it was, but it's just not that informative or interesting now.
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Yeah the mom was unrelentingly awful, and I didn't und..."
Yes it's like Slocumb REALLY had a bone to pick with the mothers of the world. You'll notice he barely mentions Ray's father.
It’s online!! I started my own book review blog. In Dutch, so probably not very interesting for most of you: harmkesleestips.nl (GR made it unable to share a link).My creative brain needs to create something. And while at the office creating is ‘on hold’ until some organizational stuff is sorted out, I decided to create my own blog. Happy brain, happy me.
PS: 10/50
Total 2023: 11
Finished
Strategic Writing for UX: Drive Engagement, Conversion, and Retention with Every Word by Torrey Podmajersky⭐⭐⭐
Not for PS, management/ content writing book.
The Time in Between by María Dueñas ⭐⭐⭐⭐
PS #6, a book about a forbidden romance
This book is categorized as a thriller, which I normally don’t like. But I did like this book. And I do like Spanish thrillers anyway. They start slow, to picture the situation of the characters. And then speed picks up and you are on a roller coaster with your character, who you obviously love by then. That was exactly what happened with this book. And you learn a lot about Franco’s Spain. I watched the Netflix documentary ‘Die Wahrheit über Franco’ about Franco last fall, so the events in this book were familiar to me.
Currently reading
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
QOTW
No social media besides Goodreads. I crawl through RSS-feeds of several Dutch blogs like ‘De leesclub van alles’ (The book club of everything). Last weeks I clicked through lots of blogs for inspiration for my own.
I might just be a regular Friday updater 😅Finished:
Elektra not for a challenge. I looooved Ariadne and was incredibly excited to see the author had another book out that was a Greek myth from the perspective of women. I was interested to see if the author could make Elektra sympathetic to me, because I’ve always found her siding with her father to be pretty yuck. I still vehemently oppose Elektra’s stance in the book but she was written in a way where I can see how she ended up in such a messed up headspace.
Currently Reading:
Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Great Adventure Catholic Bible
The Deceivers
QOTW:
Goodreads is about my only site. I have a book Instagram I don’t post to much but I do follow a lot of authors on there that I check occasionally. I find most book reviews off putting but there are a few book tiktokers I follow because they don’t bash books.
Challenges:
Popsugar - 4/40; 0/10
Read Harder - 3/24
Classics - 2/12
European Tour - 2/10
12 Friends - 2/12
Yearly Goal - 19/175
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congrats on your new "baby"!!
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@Brandon I'm so jealous of your Perlman concert. PBS has a really good biography show on him.