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#171. Damn. A Flower Traveled in My Blood is heartbreaking. I learned a lot.
#170 Many good memoirs this week. Fahrenheit-182 was the most upbeat.
The Indifferent Stars Above is great
Good.
Thanks!
That’s good to know. I’ve been trying to decide if I was driving to MD or OH.
West Virginia, English, Meow.
Clearly nothing else is going to get done today.
#164 I enjoyed all of the stories in A Blink of the Screen, but I was mostly glad to spend more time with Granny Weatherwax.
#163 I only wish there were more David Grann books to read.
It’s absolutely going on my re-read shelf
I really liked it! I’m looking forward to reading more of her books.
#162 The Goblin Emperor offered a different take on goblins.
Respectfully, wow
I can’t take trainers and health gurus seriously, when they say things like this. I can’t take most of them seriously anyway.
I’m celebrating!
#158 A a beautiful memoir of pain, acceptance, and music. I do love a music memoir.
The few cicadas in the Pittsburgh area seem to be finding their way to my porch and my cat’s mouth.
Max just brought another live cicada into the house. It’s not even a cicada year! Where is he getting these!?
Stevie said “You'll never get away from the sound/Of the woman that loved you” and she meant it ✨
#157 A day with a new @tkingfisher.com is a good day! I loved Hemlock & Silver, and I’m pretty sure it’s going to become a comfort re-read like Nettle & Bone. I adore books with heroines in their 30s.
#156 My favorite Sarah Gailey yet. This will be a re-read for sure.
this could fix me
Huh. It seems I have this thing.
Due to a Trump executive order, 17-year-old Lee's gender-affirming care was cut off. Hot flashes and fear followed. "There’s a specific target on my head." buff.ly/5uqkzp0
For someone who is definitely a top ten hater, I so much prefer to love things. the world is so prodigal of miracles of beauty everywhere. It is a miracle and a mystery but our species is just burning this irreplaceable perfection and no one can stop it.
#155 I absolutely loved To Say Nothing of the Dog. I can’t believe I had never heard of it before.
I just got to do my favorite thing to do on a Monday morning: call and report a missed pick up to the trash company. This time, it’s the recycling and not the trash. I don’t understand why it’s so hard to pick up on our street.
I rescued and released the cicada, but I’m sure he’ll find something else to drag inside later.
It’s always a bad sign when Scout leaps off the couch and starts looking around the house with great interest. Today, Max had brought a live cicada into the house.
Mine too. I’d really like to not have to water tonight.
I just ordered some lovely earrings. I’ve spent the weekend sadly ordering things I won’t be able to get anymore. Anyway, I love this shop, and you should order something while you can.
SOON I SHALL DANCE ON THE CORPSE OF SUMMER.
Maybe the Discworld quote that I think of most often.
i'm so tired omg i need to be put into an induced coma for like a week. no amount of regular sleep is touching it. i need to be legally dead for a week i need to be in a vault of some kind
I have requested all of them from the library. I’m very excited.
Good luck! This was me earlier this week, and it wasn’t too bad. I made a mess, but that was the worst part.
These all look so good!
My coworkers are all talking about the weird “flu” that is going around. I am going to excuse myself so I can go scream for a minute.
Sometimes I open my door and find surprise vegetables. I love my neighbors.
#153 I wasn’t at all familiar with Mary Cantwell when I picked up her memoirs. Going in blind was a delight.
My home state is incredibly beautiful, and it is also an incredibly hard place to live for many marginalized people. There are a lot of good people living there and also a lot of shitty, racist, bigoted people. It’s important to acknowledge the good and the bad.
I am depressed all over again. We got some rain at my house, but nowhere near enough.
It’s actually raining right now, and I’ve never been so happy. It’s been so dry.
#152 Howl’s Moving Castle is one of my favorite movies, and now I can say that I love the book too.
Tired of people assuming that just because I disappeared in a puff of smoke this implies something nefarious. Maybe that's just how I normally disappear
Same
#147 The Secret History is one of my sister‘s favorite books, and she lent me her copy. I enjoyed it, but I definitely need to read something lighter next.
Never Let You Go has been my song of the summer for 25 years. youtu.be/gl-JGJp-_CM?...
#145 I’m not sure whether or not I actually liked Death’s End, but it’s given me a lot to think about.
#143 The Goldfinch is incredible of course, but I do find myself irritated by protagonists that make nothing but bad choices.
What!?
I think, yes
#141 I finally pulled Bruce’s memoir off the shelf. I do love a music memoir.
For $5/month or $60/yr you get access to PBS Passport and the entire Masterpiece library plus Great Performances, etc. Defunded but not defeated. www.pbs.org/passport/lea...
There are no job losses in Ba Sing Se
#140 I really enjoyed The Bright Sword. I haven’t read a new take on King Arthur in ages.
#139 Someone gifted me The Murders in Great Diddling, and I was not expecting it to be so fun.
#137 I finally read Killers of the Flower Moon. David Grann is a tremendous writer.
Palestinian activist Odeh Hadalin (a.k.a. Awdah Hathaleen), who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was shot to death in the West Bank on Monday.
Congratulations!
This is incredibly disappointing
#136 I think I like this one better than One Hundred Years of Solitude.
#135 I really enjoyed The Three-Body Problem. I can’t wait to read the rest of the series.
Do you have sheep in a jeep? It is hands-down the most popular children’s book in my family. We also love the Mr. Putter series. Mr. Putter and Tabby Pick the Pears is the best one.
*was heartbreaking and infuriating
I took a ton of environmental and plant biology classes, and I loved them all. It was briefly my minor, but I had to switch because I couldn’t get all the classes I needed.
#134 We Carry Their Bones with heartbreaking and infuriating.
#133 As a native Appalachian, I both loved and hated Demon Copperhead.
Thank you! I will check out both of those!
There are no words to describe how much I love the national aviary.
#132 I finally reread the Odyssey for the first time in decades, and it is as I remembered: the story of a lying man who makes bad decisions.
#131 Dragonstar is not my favorite dragon book, but it’s miles better than Knight of the Demon Queen. A solid ending.
After four years of planting, I finally have swallowtail butterflies in my yard.
#130 An incredibly depressing book. I don’t mind realism in fantasy, but this was a slog.
If you’re still doing this, I loved Jane Eyre and To Kill a Mockingbird. Recently, I’ve enjoyed The City of Brass and The Witching Year.
#129 even though they are very different books, it seemed fitting to follow The Year of the Witching with my re-read of The Witching Year.
I’m never going back.
I started using Metamucil after you posted about it six months ago, and I can confirm that it is indeed life changing.
#128 The Year of the Witching has a lovely blend of dark fantasy and horror.
anyway, the REAL founding tradition of Great Britain is paganism, and you know what yes we should get back to our roots of feasting and fucking and sacrificing failed rulers to the bog
