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Post by slooroo on Dec 16, 2022 22:17:34 GMT
Tomorrow I'll be starting Candide by Voltaire
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Post by My-Chikorita on Dec 21, 2022 17:08:49 GMT
Currently I'm reading two books, one physical book and one e-book. One is called Beautiful Boy and it's a memoir written by the father of an addict. The other is called No One Cares About Crazy People, and it's written by the father of two boys who struggled with schizophrenia (the title is from a terrible quote made by an ableist person; the book is partially about how untrue it is).
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Post by slooroo on Dec 23, 2022 1:01:56 GMT
Next up is Sea Dog Bamse: World War II Canine Hero by Angus Whitson and Andrew Orr. It's about a Saint Bernard in the Norwegian Navy and was both a mascot and a hero
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Post by Jirachu MilleniumPika on Dec 23, 2022 9:09:08 GMT
If I have any story with a creative flare to it or a book about art techs maybe I might want to read one of those today
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Post by slooroo on Dec 27, 2022 23:10:53 GMT
Next up is Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor. I've been wanting to read one of her works for awhile so I decided why not now?
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Post by slooroo on Feb 24, 2023 1:36:12 GMT
Currently reading Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. Interesting book so far
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Post by Jirachu MilleniumPika on Mar 3, 2023 7:04:44 GMT
Disney fairies the great berry battle
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Post by slooroo on Mar 5, 2023 1:43:56 GMT
Next up is The Stand by Stephen King
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Post by My-Chikorita on Mar 6, 2023 13:54:32 GMT
I was reading Graduation Day (third book in The Testing series) but I can't focus on reading as well now. I've also read multiple books since my last post (Beautiful Boy, Manic, Going Hungry, What My Bones Know, Independent Study, Legend, and The Diamond of Darkhold), since I was really into reading for a while.
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Post by slooroo on Oct 28, 2023 23:25:12 GMT
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
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Post by My-Chikorita on Nov 2, 2023 16:04:06 GMT
Physical Books:
Shoot the D**n Dog: A Memoir of Depression by Sally Brampton (Library) (Non-Fiction): Even though I don't like the title, I love mental health memoirs, so I checked out this book. It's great so far. I like that the author shows that clinical depression doesn't always have a "reason"; sometimes it just happens, because it's an illness. As she said, she had "no reason to be depressed", but had it anyway because mental illness doesn't care if you have a reason or not.
Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia by Hadley Freeman (bought from Barnes & Noble) (Non-Fiction): Okay, so. It's a great book with a great personal story and good information about ED's... BUT. BUT. There's a whole chapter of ridiculous transphobia of almost J.K. Rowling proportions, basically saying "Suddenly all these teenage 'girls' have gender dysphoria because of social media and instead of telling them their gender identity is valid, we need to force them to stay girls and diagnose them with a mental illness!" Which is utter BS and has been debunked over and over and over. She also claims that "girls" with gender dysphoria are actually just anorexic and couldn't possibly be trans. Because non-disordered people can't be trans, I guess? She also constantly misgenders trans men (as "girls") and generally just repeats what terfs say but with anorexia mixed in. It's freaking bizarre. And then it goes back to being a memoir as if the transphobic chapter never happened. I don't respect this person's views at all -- I Googled her and she is indeed a transphobe -- but the rest of what I've read in this book is good. So yeah. Weird.
Proxy by Alex London (Library) (Fiction): I'm a sucker for YA dystopian fiction, and this one captures my interest. It's set in an interesting futuristic society where poor people (proxies) can pay off their debt to the government by taking punishments for someone else (patrons). The main character's patron accidentally committed a huge crime and MC is expected to bear the punishment for it, but manages to run away. It's an interesting story for sure, and I like the worldbuilding.
E-Books:
Matched by Ally Condie: I've read this book years ago and loved it, and now I want to read the whole trilogy in order. It's a dystopian fiction book where the government, called the Society, controls everything everyone does and paints it as a perfect world. Jobs are given out to everyone based on what the Society decides, people don't get to choose who they marry, and all art has been reduced to only one hundred of each type; one hundred songs, one hundred paintings, one hundred movies. The rest got destroyed. I love the worldbuilding and the way the main character slowly realizes that the Society isn't as great as she was taught to believe.
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Post by Professor Glitch on Nov 2, 2023 19:16:53 GMT
The Screaming Staircase, first book in the Lockwood & Co series. It's about teenagers that hunt ghosts, in a world in which ghosts cause problems and can only be detected or countered by youth. I started watching the Netflix adaptation some time ago and it got cancelled prematurely.
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Post by My-Chikorita on Nov 5, 2023 13:22:32 GMT
I also want to add that I've been reading through some of my older writing, something I've been wanting to do for a while. I don't have all of it because the computers I used back then are long gone, and I can't get into my old email account anymore, but there are some documents I have saved on my OneDrive. I read through my 2015 and 2017 writing, and now I'm reading through some of the bizarre stuff I wrote in late 2018 (the one I'm reading right now is from November, coincidentally, so it's five years old now!). I was a weird, weird person back then, but that's part of why I find my old writing interesting. It isn't exactly "good", but it offers a window into the things I struggled with back then.
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Post by slooroo on Jan 1, 2024 20:14:55 GMT
Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
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Post by kyng on Jan 2, 2024 20:24:43 GMT
Around the World in 80 Games.
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