i wish amazon had a thing where you could click "i'm not interested in this book" and it wouldn't show up in search results except at the bottom with a link like, "there are 12 books that meet your search criteria that you have previously marked to exclude from results. view them?" it would make searches so much less tedious.

There is a missing piece between, "You are responsible for your own happiness" and being happy. Deciding to be happy just doesn't cut it, and fuck you to everyone who says it's that simple. It's not. Beliefs are hard to change ( Read more... )

I finished Stiff, which I'd been meaning to do for a while, but "fun" books so often get pushed aside when I get books, b/c I am a self-afflicting killjoy that way. However, I finally let myself have some fun and I'm happy to say it was as enjoyable as everyone has told me it was. There's been much more written by much better book reviewers, but ( Read more... )

An interview on NPR with an author who's written a book on introversion.

The book.

This year I've decided to start reading fiction again. Or trying to. I got so burned out on therapy books that I barely read anything last year. I've restarted with some fluff and YA SF, b/c hey, after all the therapy wank, I deserve some light reading. I'm not sure if I'm going to do reviews, but I will at least keep a list. If you have ( Read more... )

I spent an embarrassing amount of time on Amazon this afternoon. I forget how I got there, but I ended up adding about three dozen books to my wishlist, mostly natural history and graphic novels. It seems Michael Pollan's success has inspired a glut of natural history books clustering around food, and a corresponding glut of readers eager to ( Read more... )

oh, amazon, you never let me down.

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I have to admit that since March, I've only read five books. The first four were George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, which is hugely problematic from almost any social angle, but has swords and wolves and thereby qualifies as escapist fluff for me. Also, Martin's pen name is such a blatant rip-off of Tolkien that it irks me, and by the ( Read more... )

Every book in the house, to the best of my knowledge, is now on Goodreads. Except for that box of Agatha Christies under the stairs, which I am not digging out anytime soon. Now I need to enter what's on my school shelves and then I'll be done ( Read more... )