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...It's always nice to know that the fact that I tend to spend September feeling bitchy as hell outlasts my school career. Bah.
Karma Girl and Jinx by Jennifer Estep. Fun, very light paranormal romance about women and their superheroes. I enjoyed the jokes and the way it riffed off superhero stereotypes, but while it was fun, it wasn't really my thing.
Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House by Cheryl Mendelson. Actually this was surprisingly interesting. I mean, it's a text book on how to keep house basically, but honestly I think it's a good reference to have a round, after going through it. If you want tips on the most efficient way to do laundry, or to find out what the best way to handwash dishes (I discovered I'd been doing it the wrong way all this time. Whoops!), and...really any information at all having to do with the traditionally female part of home stuff, it's useful! I mean, it's like 800 pages so it's pretty complete.
The Fever: How Malaria has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah. Interesting! I wanted a little more on malaria's biology because I was curious, and it pretty much stayed on the level of "yeah, malaria's biology is REALLY COMPLICATED" the entire book. But the history struck me as well done and really interesting, and I really enjoyed her point on "Well, gee, where it's endemic it's not actually seen as that much a threat." Because well, durrr how many people don't get flu shots when that still kills iirc about 45,000 people a year? Or the MMR vaccine, even if that is a movement driven by ignorant fucknuts and con artists? But somehow I'd never thought of that because it's always been presented as this huge looming threat. I mean, it's a giant problem obviously still! But it's a different sort of giant problem than it tends to get presented as in countries that don't have it, and I hadn't quite noticed that before.
...Fuck it, I'm giving up on this book. The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How it Changed America by David Hadju. It's a really interesting topic, and there are things that fascinate me (how many of the people into burning comics at the height of their scandal were kids who'd been convinced that their former hobby was hurting people omg!, for one.) But I keep putting it down and not wanting to pick it back up because it jumps around so much that it never really...feels like it has a throughline? Like, I've read plenty of nonfiction books without a narrative string running through them and sometimes they're pretty good, but this feels like it completely jumps around constantly and it drove me nuts. It's a giant barrage of names and jumping around to new names, and maybe if I knew anything about comic history before this I'd get it a bit more? But as it is I'm just forcing my way through it and bah.
Most my other books have been rereads, so whatever dudes. Rereads are comfort reads and don't count /lazy
Also, the demonverse game was awesome and I think it jarred me out of my RP funk \o\ Srsly I didn't even grocery shop this weekend because I was too busy either playing it or stalking threads in it. I should dig up some of the old threads so I can write porn for it in the kink meme without being bugged about getting characterization wrong.
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Karma Girl and Jinx by Jennifer Estep. Fun, very light paranormal romance about women and their superheroes. I enjoyed the jokes and the way it riffed off superhero stereotypes, but while it was fun, it wasn't really my thing.
Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House by Cheryl Mendelson. Actually this was surprisingly interesting. I mean, it's a text book on how to keep house basically, but honestly I think it's a good reference to have a round, after going through it. If you want tips on the most efficient way to do laundry, or to find out what the best way to handwash dishes (I discovered I'd been doing it the wrong way all this time. Whoops!), and...really any information at all having to do with the traditionally female part of home stuff, it's useful! I mean, it's like 800 pages so it's pretty complete.
The Fever: How Malaria has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah. Interesting! I wanted a little more on malaria's biology because I was curious, and it pretty much stayed on the level of "yeah, malaria's biology is REALLY COMPLICATED" the entire book. But the history struck me as well done and really interesting, and I really enjoyed her point on "Well, gee, where it's endemic it's not actually seen as that much a threat." Because well, durrr how many people don't get flu shots when that still kills iirc about 45,000 people a year? Or the MMR vaccine, even if that is a movement driven by ignorant fucknuts and con artists? But somehow I'd never thought of that because it's always been presented as this huge looming threat. I mean, it's a giant problem obviously still! But it's a different sort of giant problem than it tends to get presented as in countries that don't have it, and I hadn't quite noticed that before.
...Fuck it, I'm giving up on this book. The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How it Changed America by David Hadju. It's a really interesting topic, and there are things that fascinate me (how many of the people into burning comics at the height of their scandal were kids who'd been convinced that their former hobby was hurting people omg!, for one.) But I keep putting it down and not wanting to pick it back up because it jumps around so much that it never really...feels like it has a throughline? Like, I've read plenty of nonfiction books without a narrative string running through them and sometimes they're pretty good, but this feels like it completely jumps around constantly and it drove me nuts. It's a giant barrage of names and jumping around to new names, and maybe if I knew anything about comic history before this I'd get it a bit more? But as it is I'm just forcing my way through it and bah.
Most my other books have been rereads, so whatever dudes. Rereads are comfort reads and don't count /lazy
Also, the demonverse game was awesome and I think it jarred me out of my RP funk \o\ Srsly I didn't even grocery shop this weekend because I was too busy either playing it or stalking threads in it. I should dig up some of the old threads so I can write porn for it in the kink meme without being bugged about getting characterization wrong.
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comments over there. Feel free to talk over there.