The problem is that I generally don't finish stuff I don't like, and then never write about it in here, which makes it seem I like everything I watch. I'm the same with books, I try a lot that I never finish, and then never write about them.

So I recently tried watching Everest and it sucked. The dialogue wasn't realistic, they had a bunch of ( Read more... )

I finished this book!

I wrote about it before, when I was not finished yet, from the perspective of: this is what happens when a country's residents no longer respect the rule of law -- everything falls apart.  But there were many causes for the collapse of Venezuela, according to the author William NeumanOne cause was incompetent economic ( Read more... )

“Well,” grinned Oxford, “nobody cares what you think. It’s all about what they can get into print and get others to cite. That’s what gets people ahead in academia. But no one is going to read anything you write and give any consideration to what you’re trying to say. It’s just whether or not they can use your paper to support what they want to say ( Read more... )

I'd read his first book, GenderQueer: A Story From a Different Closet, also needing to restart after a break, but for different reasons. I found his first book unusually triggering for me, conjuring so many memories from my own adolescent past that I repeatedly felt distracted from his story ( Read more... )

I'm selecting a few books to read on my Kindle, and they are all going to take a long time to sink into, this is no longer a Books of the Moon project, more like Books of the Sun, or Books of the Galaxy,

I will not be rushed

Two books in one day! They're very quick reads, though. And not really groundbreaking plotwise, but charming and sweet, makes me want to be a teenager in love again. Brought tears to my eyes. There's still a romantic young Bug underneath those extra decades of adulthood. I'd give the first two volumes 4 out of 5 stars. The drawings are great ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening as I was resting on an easy chair in the Media Cave, Tod called me to cheer me up after Day One of Returning to the Office, and to discuss our latest house plumbing problem. He told me the package that had arrived today was a gift for me. "Open it!" he said. OK ( Read more... )

I'll have a Kindle when I go to bed tonight, and I'll try going to bed with my Kindle instead of my laptop.

Thanks for your advice, Remaining LJ Friends!

As April comes to a close, with a busy weekend ahead of me, I'm certain I'm not going to finish a book this month, and looking back I haven't finished a book since 2021 ( Read more... )

I've got another day to self at the condo while T & B hang out at the house together -- so far I'm trying to fast again, although I did have some food delivered yesterday afternoon and I've got leftovers in the fridge ( Read more... )