That is an excellent book, and I agree with you about how hard the third act hits. If you’re interested, she has a couple other novels in the same setting (time-traveling historians): To Say Nothing of the Dog, a much more light-hearted Victorian-era farce that overlaps with events from the real-life novel Three Men in a Boat which is itself a good and funny read, and the two-parter Blackout and All Clear, neither of which I have read but are on my list to get around to someday.
Yeah, I would recommend it. My biggest takeaways from it so far have been understanding how many of my habits and personality quirks are actually coping strategies that I just didn’t realize. Like, I always thought I just happened to like chewing gum all the time because I enjoyed the minty flavor. Turns out the repetitive chewing motion can actually stimulate the dopamine I crave. I thought everyone has a collection of rhyming phrases or little songs that they only say in private and we all collectively pretend like we don’t because it’s embarrassing. Turns out that’s verbal or auditory stimming. It’s been great in that regard, helping me understand why I am the way I am.
Can’t really speak to how effective any of the ADHD management techniques in the book are since I’m still working through it and trying to take things onboard, but the author also has a very popular and successful Youtube channel where you can probably find all the same information and more if you’re interested.
I’ll take “Books that made me sob like a baby” for $500, Alex.
Yeah, I did not mean to disparage or downplay their decision to leave. Better late than never, it’s just that the time for trying to “change the system from within” seemed well past to me.
Given St. Paul’s reputation for left-wing activism, kinda surprised they were still on Twitter for this long.
Many is the time I’ve gotten halfway through typing a response only to lose interest in my own opinion.
It was a frozen yogurt company. The ice cream was a ruse to smoke out those not committed to the cause.
Ooo, what kind of boat?
What, Netanyahu cynically making political moves for his own gain and damn the consequences, stop, that’s crazy man, you’re blowing my mind, dude.
Just got back from voting, no wait. It’s about a 10 minute walk from my house to the polling place. They had 3 lanes open for people to check in, only 1 was occupied. I was in and out in under 5 minutes. Longest I’ve ever had to wait was probably 45-60 minutes in 2016 but that was at a different polling place that was always poorly organized.
Just got back from voting and I was looking for an opportunity to mention how attractive the lady that checked me in was.
You can dish it out but you can’t take it? Well, so can I!
sHaLL NoT bE InFrinGeD!!!
Obviously.
Might be a typo? A donor phlebotomy technician is one who specializes in drawing blood from donors, I guess as opposed to ones who do the lab work.
I struck up a conversation with a guy at a bar one time, turned out he was an animal control officer and the county shelter had just had a bad outbreak of parvovirus. He said he had spent the whole week just euthanizing dogs from sunup to sundown. He looked rough.
That is an important one and I’ll expand on it slightly…I spend probably 80% of my day either sleeping, sitting in front of the computer, or out walking around. Consequentially, the most comfortable and expensive things I own are my mattress, my office chair, and my shoes. Spend your money where it matters.