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EntropicalVacation

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Central Illinois book lover, cat lover, CPA

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Greebles. They’re often on the ceiling at our house.

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“She had six strong legs and it frightened me. She had insect eyes but I could still see that the look she gave him you give to me.”

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Why would he want to? The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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Enjoy what you enjoy—life’s too short and there are too many other books out there to waste time on what you don’t enjoy! I have no qualms about not finishing a book, no matter how far along I’ve gotten. I’ve been known to skip to the last chapter or last few pages just to see how it ends, then move on.

On the other hand, for books that you have to read (for school, e.g.) set a goal of X pages per day, and reward yourself when you make the goal. I also find it helps to read more interactively: take notes, argue with the author, think about what you read and whether it’s total b.s. or whether there was anything, however small, of value in it.

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I love doilies, and this one is amazing!

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It’s an unwieldy word, which I think was a deliberate choice.

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In very roughly descending order:

Auē by Becky Manawatu

Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson

Open Throat by Henry Hoke‬‬

Autumn by ‪Ali Smith‬

A Tale for the Time Being by ‪Ruth Ozeki‬

Home by ‪Toni Morrison‬

Gnomon by ‪Nick Harkaway

Space Opera by ‪Catherynne M. Valente‬

The Book of M by ‪Peng Shepherd‬

The Book of Strange New Things by ‪Michel Faber

The Overstory by ‪Richard Powers

The Door by ‪Magda Szabó‬

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by ‪Gabrielle Zevin‬

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I actually split between reading and listening to the audiobook. It was long either way! I didn’t care for it as much as I thought I would. The first part took me a while to get into, I loved the second part, but after

spoilerMaidenhair dies

it was all downhill.

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Dutch House was one of my favorite reads from 2022.

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I love Becky Chambers. Psalm for the Wild Built was one of my favorites from 2022.

Went to the vet yesterday since my boy was acting weird. Turns out he was showing very mild signs of paralysis. (lemmy.world)

Vet said he needed shots to boost his nerves and if he doesn’t respond well in a couple days he’ll do an X-ray and decide on a further course of treatment. He’s back to purring in my lap again. Hug your kitties extra tight for me tonight.

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I had a cat that was maybe 6 or 7 years old when she suddenly started having seizures. After a seizure, she’d be wobbly for a few days, then eventually back to normal… until it happened again. Vet couldn’t figure out what was going on. We decided to try to track when she had the seizures—was it when she ate something out of the ordinary, got exposed to something unusual, on a recurring schedule? That sort of thing. We quickly found out that within a day or two of giving her a dose of Frontline flea treatment (the kind you drip on the back of their neck) she’d have a seizure. We stopped giving her Frontline and she never had another seizure.

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It turned out beautifully!

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Just want to say that (a) I love the pattern and colors, and (b) it doesn’t look horribly wonky to me. Blocking might improve it, but I don’t think it needs “saving.”

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    We have one. The cat likes it, and we love it. Super-easy to empty.

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    —Oh, we use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and sealed in a succulent, Swiss, quintuple-smooth, treble-milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose.

    —That’s as may be, but it’s still a frog!

    —What else?

    —Well, don’t you even take the bones out?

    —If we took the bones out, it wouldn’t be crunchy, would it?

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    Central Illinoisan here, and I’m pretty sure the half of Illinois south of the Mason-Dixon Line is the South, not the Midwest.

    Spooky reads for October?

    Anyone else have some spooky reads lined up for October? My bookclub is reading Frankenstein this month, which will be a nice change of pace from the usual fare. I’ve got Tender is the Flesh, Rouge, and Black Sheep lined up. I will probably get to The Haunting of Hill House as well, which I’m really excited to read! I just...

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    I hadn’t thought about it, but it sounds like a fun idea, so I’ve checked out The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, a horror classic that’s been on my to-read list for a while: “a collection of spine-tingling horror stories that are woven together by a fictional play called The King in Yellow.”

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    So cute! And done in plenty of time for Halloween!

    Indian-Mexican wedding gift

    We’re Polish living in Germany and were invited to a wedding in India by a friend of ours. The groom is Indian and the bride is Mexican, to make things more complicated. It’s planned at the end of November. That’s the first time going to India for us, we don’t know much about the culture. We don’t know what we should...

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    American here, but I agree with a traditionally Polish or German gift. I’ve always thought Polish pottery is lovely.

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    My first instinct would be Southwest, like Texas.

    Here’s an article with maps that show the Census regions that @Jackcooper mentioned puts OK in the South: businessinsider.com/united-states-regions-new-eng…

    And here’s a map from National Geographic that puts OK in the Southwest: …nationalgeographic.org/…/united-states-regions/

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    I’m so happy to see “A Song for Lya” on your list. It’s one of my favorite SF stories!

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