Friday (8/17) Weekly Reading Recap Day!

[tacokick]

Aug 20, 2018 11:36:42 GMT -5 Gato said:

There Are No Grownups - Pamela Druckerman - the first two chapters started so promisingly but I thought most of it was filler and it did not answer the interesting questions she posed.  Bummer.

I read this last week. I was annoyed too. I had also read some of it before in magazines or online which was disappointing. I did request her book about infidelity that she wrote before these last two books so I’m interested to see what she was like before fame/kids.

[Nonny]

Aug 18, 2018 21:26:11 GMT -5 aurora said:

I'm (re-)reading Diana Gabaldon's The Firey Cross because I felt like I needed something escapist. Definitely serves that purpose.

Listening to (almost done) Before We Were Yours and enjoying it. I'm looking forward to being able to participate in Book Club again!

QOTW: definitely heights. I don't like heights.

One thing I did that apparently many people would find terrifying is go through a cave feature that was essentially a 50' tube where you had to lie on your side and wiggle through with basically no spare room. I apparently am not bothered by small spaces!

Aug 19, 2018 9:39:50 GMT -5 sassypants said:

Aug 18, 2018 21:26:11 GMT -5 aurora said:

I'm (re-)reading Diana Gabaldon's The Firey Cross because I felt like I needed something escapist. Definitely serves that purpose.

Listening to (almost done) Before We Were Yours and enjoying it. I'm looking forward to being able to participate in Book Club again!

QOTW: definitely heights. I don't like heights.

One thing I did that apparently many people would find terrifying is go through a cave feature that was essentially a 50' tube where you had to lie on your side and wiggle through with basically no spare room. I apparently am not bothered by small spaces!

I hear you! When I was in grad school a group of 20 of us did a study abroad in Egypt. When we went to the Pyramids, one of the women's pyramids was open for tourists, but getting into and out of it involved bending at the waist at a 90 degree angle to go down (backwards and slightly sideways) and back up again. Only about 8 of us did it, and the size didn't phase me (though I was worried my leg muscles would give out--that kind of climbing is hard on an out of shape person!).

[Nonny]

I finished Blindness by José Saramago which I really hated, I'm still working on The Raven King (Raven Cycle #4) - which I picked up so I wouldn't have to read Blindness before bed, and I've since started Educated: A Memoir on audiobook for my other book club, and Neil Gaiman's graphic novel Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1) which is about to return to Hoopla.

QOTW:  I'm terrified of spiders, but as long as they are not on me or above me I can usually deal.  I try to make my H dispatch as many as I can get away with, but I've gotten better as an adult about doing my own spider murder. I'm also very much not a fan of enclosed spaces - I'm fine with elevators and everyday things like that, but no way am I doing any kind of caving that involves me squishing myself into rock tubes.  Newp.  See above gif. 

Reading through the responses here I've gone snorkeling in the open ocean, without a life jacket, with reef sharks (in Moorea), and lots of people seem to not trust the ocean or sharks.  There was a shark when I was snorkeling the GBR too, but the water was a lot choppier there, and so I was at least wearing a life jacket this last time.

Also, dorothyinAus, I've been lit on fire twice (both accidents, both not severely) and I once had a job where on the first day a bunch of the guys took me down into the parking garage to teach me out to eat fire (which I refused to participate in because I deemed the part where I needed to put lighter fluid in my mouth to be too unhealthy). 

[Gato]

Aug 20, 2018 18:04:40 GMT -5 tacokick said:

Aug 20, 2018 11:36:42 GMT -5 Gato said:

There Are No Grownups - Pamela Druckerman - the first two chapters started so promisingly but I thought most of it was filler and it did not answer the interesting questions she posed.  Bummer.

I read this last week. I was annoyed too. I had also read some of it before in magazines or online which was disappointing. I did request her book about infidelity that she wrote before these last two books so I’m interested to see what she was like before fame/kids.

Hmm, maybe I will check this out too.  I did like Bringing Up Bebe.

[ufcasey]

Aug 19, 2018 9:33:34 GMT -5 aurora said:

ufcasey , I also just finished Bury Your Dead a week or so ago. I'm really enjoying this series (listening via library audiobook).

I'm almost done with it - should be able to finish it today But yes, this series is so great (and I listen to it via audiobook too!)

[ufcasey]

Aug 20, 2018 17:57:59 GMT -5 tacokick said:

I just read the Gabrielle Union book too! It was interesting. I knew a lot of it but not the details.

I apparently live in a hole because I knew none of it. I was especially aghast at the rape part because my sister at the same age worked in the same store. Hit home.

[tacokick]

Aug 23, 2018 14:56:35 GMT -5 ufcasey said:

Aug 20, 2018 17:57:59 GMT -5 tacokick said:

I just read the Gabrielle Union book too! It was interesting. I knew a lot of it but not the details.

I apparently live in a hole because I knew none of it. I was especially aghast at the rape part because my sister at the same age worked in the same store. Hit home.

It was an awful story! She has been open about it off and on over the years (I remember hearing about it when she was in Bring it On) but it isn’t something reporters generally bring up in unrelated pieces, thankfully! She does a lot of woman’s advocacy work and I’ve seen it mentioned in conjunction with that but not like say, an article about clothes or Being Mary Jane etc