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Still working on what I was reading last time: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. I'm not getting through it quickly, in part because I just haven't had the energy to read for pleasure, and, yes, I am aware of the implicit irony there.
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What I'm Reading Now
The Fourth Sentence on Page 83
Whatever book you're reading right now, turn to page 83 and share the fourth sentence. No titles. Just the sentence. Let's see what story we end up telling together, in these series of isolated sentences!
"When the [ventral vagal complex] is engaged, it also sends signals down to our heart and lungs, slowing down our heart rate and increasing the depth of breathing."
[Previously.]
What I'm Reading Now
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I'm just starting The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, which was recommended by Shaker wakeuptothemoon in the last "What I'm Reading Now" thread!
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What I'm Reading Now
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I just picked up an old favorite which I've read many times: S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders.
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What I'm Reading Now
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I'm still working on The Dry, by Jane Harper, as I haven't had the energy for a lot of leisure reading lately. And part of it is that I still don't like it enough to feel inclined to pick it up, but I also don't dislike it enough to set it down. LOL.
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What I'm Reading Now
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I just started The Dry, by Jane Harper. I'm only a chapter in, so I'm not even sure if I like it yet, heh.
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What I'm Reading Now
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I'm still reading the same thing I was last time — Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood, by Andrew Rannells.
I just haven't had a lot of leisure reading energy lately, but I'm hoping to get back to it tonight, because I was really enjoying it.
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What I'm Reading Now
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I'm currently reading Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood, by Andrew Rannells.
I've only read the first couple of chapters so far, but it's very funny and sad and moving and relatable.
I have never wanted to be an actor, but it's really just a book about, as the title suggests, being a young person trying to figure out how to be an adult and how to get to where you want to go and how to figure out where that even is, so there's lots with which many folks will identify, no matter one's vocation.
If you happen to pick it up, or are considering reading it, content note for sexual assault.
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The Seventh Sentence on Page 30
Whatever book you're reading right now, turn to page 30 and share the seventh sentence. No titles. Just the sentence. Let's see what story we end up telling together, in these series of isolated sentences!
"The intent behind the questions slowly dawned on the young woman, and she shrieked her innocence."
[Previously.]
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I'm currently reading The Widow by Fiona Barton. I only just started it last night, but I'm enjoying it so far. It's very creepy. I've never read anything by Barton, but I like her writing style a lot.
This genre is really hit and miss for me: I loved The Girl on the Train and I hated Gone Girl. So we'll see how I feel about it when I'm done!
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What I'm Reading Now
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I'm currently rereading The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan. If you've never read it, oh I hope that you will!
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What I'm Reading Now
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I'm not reading anything at the moment, because I'm waiting on my copy of Robin Marty's Handbook for a Post-Roe America, which I want to start as soon as it arrives. And I don't have the capacity to have more than one book going at a time these days!
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The Third Sentence on Page 190
Whatever book you're reading right now, turn to page 190 and share the third sentence. No titles. Just the sentence. Let's see what story we end up telling together, in these series of isolated sentences!
"Use Brie de Meaux if you can — it's a fantastic, traditionally made cheese with lots of character."
[Previously.]
Ouch! This Review of Bernie's Book Is Brutal
NPR's Annalisa Quinn did not hold back in her review of Bernie Sanders' new book, Where We Go from Here. The whole thing is gonna leave a mark, but this was particularly hilarious to me:
Chapters are structured like diary entries spaced over the last two years, which he has spent visiting 32 states to advance progressive candidates and position. A standard entry will describe his platform and quote a previous speech at length, with some notes about audience size — he has an almost Trumpian interest in crowd sizes — and then finish with a vague injunction to unity or progress.A vague injunction to unity or progress! LOL! That should be his campaign slogan.
Quinn spends a lot of time criticizing Sanders for his take on the political press, and, while I do think she too carelessly breezes by the obvious effect of corporate ownership on editorial decision-making (if not individual journalists' work), she is absolutely spot-on that Sanders seems completely oblivious to what is actually being reported, in what measure.
Which is kind of a refrain with the senator. It was just yesterday that I observed he is profoundly and intractably mistaken about the ideological composition of the nation. We are so far away from his perception of the country as a collection of leftists and future leftists who just haven't heard his terrific ideas yet that it sounds more like a punchline than the serious contention of a national politician.
There is only one person in U.S. politics who is more wrong than Bernie Sanders and just as certain of his rightness. And I don't guess I need to tell you who that is.
There is a part of me that wants to get a copy of this book and tear every page a new asshole each day, but there is an even bigger part of me that absolutely will not do that because I too ardently value the tiny capacity to find joy in this world I still have left.
Relatedly, this is something:
“This is not a time for despair.”
— 𝙋𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝙆𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙣 ⚡️ (@Patrickesque) November 26, 2018
Bernie was counting on Democrats losing the midterm elections https://t.co/XupmueVPpj
Welp.
[H/Ts to Fannie for the NPR review and to Scott Madin for the tweet.]
What I'm Reading Now
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I'm currently immersed in the amazingly titled Pies & Puds by the amazingly named Paul Hollywood. The man knows his pies. And his puds.
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What I'm Reading Now
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I'm between books at the moment. (And any longform journalism I'm reading, you already know about it, because I link it here!) I haven't had the energy to read for pleasure the last couple of weeks. But I'm excited to get some recommendations!
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What I'm Reading Now
A thread for sharing what we're currently reading: Fiction, nonfiction, novels, short stories, historical fiction, biographies, romance, fanfic, comic books, graphic novels, longform journalism, research papers, stuff for pleasure, stuff for work, whatever.
Honestly, I'm still reading the same thing I was last time — Trade Me by Courtney Milan — because I haven't had much time for leisure reading lately. It's sitting on my nightstand, but I've been staying up too late and falling asleep the moment my head finally hits the pillow!
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I've Never...
This is like the drinking game, except without the drinking part, lol.
What is a notable work of fiction that you've never read, though it kind of seems like something you would have?
(I added the stipulation, which is of course entirely subjective, because there are presumably biebillions of great works of fiction each of us has never read, because there's only so much time in the day. And because I didn't want everyone's answer to be Moby Dick, lol j/k I know you've totally read Moby Dick or whatever.)
I'll start.
I've never read King Lear.
What I'm Reading Now
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I just started Trade Me by Courtney Milan. I read Hold Me last year, and loved it. (Yes, I know I read them out of order! Whoooooops!) So I'm finally getting around to another book in the Cyclone series, and I'm very excited about it!
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What I'm Reading Now
A thread for sharing what we're currently reading: Fiction, nonfiction, novels, short stories, historical fiction, biographies, romance, fanfic, comic books, graphic novels, longform journalism, research papers, stuff for pleasure, stuff for work, whatever.
I just found an old copy of The Secret Garden I had packed away while going through some still-unpacked boxes in the cellar; no idea how it ended up there, other than the usual mad dash when you're packing up before a move.
So, naturally, that's what I'm reading. For the millionth time. Affectionate sigh.
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