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nickjgoodsell · 1 year

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Goodys.Blog's Top 10 Books of 2022!

Goodys.Blog’s Top 10 Books of 2022!

Hey readers! Once again another year draws to a close and that means it’s also time to come out with the annual list of the top books that have been read over here on this blog too! 2022 has been a strange year to say the least when it comes to books, and part of it feel like it’s because towards the end here I’m feeling kind of burnt out with Fantasy-genre titles…but the thing is I don’t WANT…

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essskel · 1 year

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i’m so sorry but if you’re in the ‘fantasy media is escapism I don’t want to think about any REAL world problems‘ crowd then why are you posting about the witcher. there are few fantasy sagas that are quite so explicit and intentional as the Witcher when mirroring its characters, world, and conflict around real people, politics, and everyday struggles. also that’s why it’s GOOD

#this is not about netlix I don’t watch the show n I don’t care abt it #don’t worry im not really vaguing anyone on here it’s just stuff I read online and in articles and social media in general #tires me out and also makes me sad for the long and important legacy of fantasy authors and creators doing their best to #translate and break down their reality into a fantastical setting :(#like don’t do sapkowski like this he worked hard to make this real #the witcher #the witcher books #double shot

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yepthatsacowalright · 11 months

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"I can't tell you how many times I've heard an Autistic person say they wish they could just be a floating brain in a jar, or a dark, sentient mist with no physical form."

Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

#best sentence in this book so far for sure #reminds me of the onion article about how 96% of adults want to be animatronic bears #unmasking autism #devon price

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newsarticletoday · 2 months

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Best Selling Books of the Year

#Best Selling Books of the Year #Book #Books #best books #Book of the year #news article #news #article #News article today #reading #read books #books and reading #books recommendations

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sag-dab-sar · 17 days

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📚Resources for The Ancient Near East📚

With a focus on religion

Getting Started On Research

JSTOR Guide LINK

Lumenlearning Guide LINK

Center for Online Education Guide LINK

Layman's Guide to Online Research by @/sisterofiris LINK

How to Vet Sources by me LINK

Websites for ANE Study

ETCSL | The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature — http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/catalogue.htm

ePSD | The Electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary — http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd-frame.html

ORACC | Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus — http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/

ORACC's Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses Project — http://oracc.iaas.upenn.edu/amgg/abouttheproject/index.html

ETANA | Electronic Tools & Ancient Near East Archive — http://etana.org/

CDLI | Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative — https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/about

CAD | The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago — http://www.aina.org/cad.html

Livius' Babylonian Section — https://www.livius.org/category/babylonia/

Multi Source Websites

Internet Archive Library — https://archive.org/details/texts | How To Use LINK

JSTOR — https://www.jstor.org/ | How To Use LINK

Google Scholar — https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/help.html

Google Books — https://books.google.com/googlebooks/about/index.html

Academia — https://support.academia.edu/hc/en-us/categories/360003163373-Academia-Free-Features

DOAJ Index of Open Access Journals — https://www.doaj.org/

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook — https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/asbook.asp

Met Museum Publications — https://www.metmuseum.org/met-publications

Holy Books — https://www.holybooks.com/about/

Internet Sacred Text Archive — https://sacred-texts.com/

Deepdyve is a website of academic journal articles that isn't free but it isn't outrageously expensive for what it offers if you are heavily invested in new research — https://www.deepdyve.com/

Please leave a comment if a link breaks I'll do my best to find a new one

Books

*When using older books be aware that there may be inaccuracies and out of date information. If at all possible cross-reference and synthesize with newer materials. I have added years for this reason.

Books Specifically on Religion

Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamian Religion by Tammi Schneider (2011) Google Books | Good overview, 130ish page easy read.

Gods Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia by Jeremy Black and Anthony Greene (1992) Internet Archive

Ancient Near Eastern Mythology by Gwendolyn Leick (1991) Internet Archive | This & Black's dictionary are good starting off points but I always use additional source's because some of Leick's info tends to be more out of date than other authors.

The Ancient Gods by E O James (1960) Internet Archive

The Cultic Calendars of the Ancient Near East by Mark Cohen (1993) PDF

Preforming Death Social Analysis of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Medditarian edited by Nicola Laneri (2007) PDF

Mesopotamian Ritual-prayers of “Hand-lifting”(Akkadian Šuillas) by Christopher G Frechette Internet Archive

When Gods Were Men: The Embodied God in Biblical and Near Eastern Literature by Esther Hamon Internet Archive

Stories From Ancient Canaan by Michael D. Coogan and Mark S. Smith (1901) 1st Edition Internet Archive | 2nd Edition Google Books

A Handbook to Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East (2021) Google Books

The City of the Moon God by Tamara Green (1992) Google Books

The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity by Stephanie Lynn Budin (2008) Google Books

Books on ANE History in General

Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia by Stephen Bertman (2005) Google Books | Highly recommended, easy read

Ancient Mesopotamia Portrait of Dead Civilization by A. Leo Oppenheim (1964) Internet Archive

A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000- 323BC by Marc Van de Mieroop (2016) Internet Archive

Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia by Jean Bottero (1992) Internet Archive

Women in the Ancient Near East by Marten Stol (2016) Open Access

Chapter 3 Elamite from The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Ancient World Languages edited by Roger Wooard (2004) PDF

Sumerian Art by Andre Parrot (1970) Digital Library

Dictionaries of Civilization Mesopotamia: Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians by Enrico Ascalone and Simona Schultz (2007) Publisher Website Entry

The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells edited by Hans Dieter Betz PDF (If that link breaks Google Books)

Babylon: Mesopotamia and The Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek (2012) Google Books

Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia by Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat (2002) Google Books

Mesopotamia to Iraq A Concise History by Hans Nissen (2009) Google Books

In the Land of A Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World by Christian Marek (2016) Google Books

Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City by Gwendolyn Leick (2002) Google Books

Palmyra by Paul Veyne (2017) Google Books

The Ancient Near East c. 3000-330 BC Volume 1 by Amélie Kuhrt (1995) Google Books

The Ancient Near East c. 3000-330 BC Volume 2 by Amélie Kuhrt (1995) Google Books

The Image of the Netherworld in the Sumerian Sources by Diana Katz (2003) Google Books

Journal Articles

Mesopotamian Pandemonium by Frans Wiggermann LINK

Nergal A by Frans Wiggerman LINK

The Four Winds and the Origins of Pazuzu by Frans Wiggermann LINK

Sumerian Texts Involving The Netherworld and Funerary Offerings by Jeremiah Peterson LINK

The Sexual Union of Enlil and Ninlil: an uadi Composition of Ninlil by Jeremiah Peterson LINK

New Year Ceremonies in Ancient Babylon: 'Taking Bel by the Hand' and a Cultic Picnic Religion Jeremy A Black LINK

Phenomenon of God-nap in Ancient Mesopotamia A Short Introduction Erika D. Johnson LINK

Preforming Death Social Analysis of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Medditarian edited by Nicola Laneri LINK

Tablet of Destinies and the Transmission of Power in Enūma eliš by Karen Sonik LINK

Theology and Worship in Elam and Achaemenid Iran by Koch LINK

Evil against evil. The Demon Pazuzu by Nils P Heeßel LINK

New Readings in the Amarna Versions of Adapa and Nergal and Ereshkigal by Shlomo Izre'el LINK

The Origin of the Mystical Number Seven in Mesopotamian Culture: Division by Seven in the Sexagesimal Number System by Kazuo Muroi LINK

Athirat: As Found at Ras Shamra Justin Watkins LINK

Two Remarkable Vocabularies: Amorite-Akkadian Bilinguals! by Andrew George, Manfred Krebernik. Unfortunately now I can only find a paywalled version.

From Beyond Ereškigal? Mesopotamian Magic Tradition in the Papyri Graecae Magicae by Daniel Schwemer LINK

The Phoenician Presence in the Aegean during the Early Iron Age : Trade, Settlement and Cultural Interaction by Edizioni Quasar LINK

Invoking the God: Interpreting Invocations in Mesopotamian Prayers and Biblical Laments of the Individual by Alan Lenzi LINK

The Two Steles of Sargon: Iconology and Visual Propaganda at the Beginning of Royal Akkadian Relief by Lorenzo Nigro LINK

Asherah, the West Semitic Goddess of Spinning and Weaving? Susan Ackerman LINK

Ancient Ethics by Gerald Larue LINK

Early Bronze Age Graves at Gre Virike (Period II B): An Extraordinary Cemetery on the Middle Euphrates by A. Tuba Ökse LINK

The Evil Eye in Mesopotamia by Marie-Louise Thomsen LINK

Web Articles

Living Deities: Ancient Mesopotamian Patron Gods & Their Statues by Iilias Luursema on The Collector LINK

Armana Letters by Elizabeth Knott on Met Museum. LINK

Translations

*ETCSL is all translations of Sumerian literature!

Ishtar's Decent Translation & Recited in Akkadian LINK

The Harps That Once by Thorkild Jacobsen Google Books

The Project Gutenberg Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms by Stephen Langdon PDF

Project Gutenberg's Sumerian Hymns, by Frederick Augustus Vanderburgh LINK

Ancient Near East Anthology of Texts and Pictures edited by Pritchard 1st Edition Internet Archive

A Hymn to Tammuz (Cuneiform Texts from the British Museum, Tablet 15821, Plate 18) J. Dyneley Prince (1909) JSTOR

Ludlul Bel Nemegi by Alan Lenzi the Akkadian "Poem of the Righteous Sufferer" LINK

The Flood Myths LINK

Enūma Eliš Translations: L W King Translation 1902 LINK | ETANA Translation LINK | Composite Translation LINK

Code of Ur-Nammu LINK

Code of Liptin Ishtar LINK

The Legend of Sargon of Akkadê, c. 2300 BCE LINK

Other

Google Drive shared on Tumblr LINK

Dissertation: Personal Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia as shown in Akkadian Texts by Maurice Noil Leon Couve De Murville, University of London PDF

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margridarnauds · 3 months

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Trying to figure out the difference between "this feeling of general apathy about work will pass" and "this feeling of general apathy about work won't pass"

#it's like. i'm not FEELING when I think about my field #i'm not FEELING when I teach -- even though I'm still fighting for my undergrads as best as possible #I don't feel anything about the conferences over the horizon for me...or the papers that I have to write for them #i haven't even booked my plane tickets and accommodations...partially because that'd mean they're real #i have a deadline coming up for an article I was excited to publish -- I barely want to touch it #and it's like...I *know* I love my field #...so why don't I *now*?#i don't want to work on my prospectus...even though I've wanted nothing else for three years #...is it just TOO MUCH at once or too little stimulation without classwork #or am i just. tired.#and has this been the natural conclusion of the last three years

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summerfevers · 7 days

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running """joke""" of peter threatening to send neal back to prison is OVER. clear as day in my mind i can invision this instead. peter, believing neal to be 35 in s1 (a full decade older than he actually was), has a conspiracy corkboard in his basement (why don't the burkes have a basement?) full of his 'evidence' of how neal and mozzie were the ones behind the isabella stewart gardner museum heist. here is the police sketch of the suspects so you can see where peter is coming from with this:

neal thinks this is hilarious. he's flattered, honestly. no one in the fbi is seriously investigating this, this is peter's passion project. he thinks neal was like 17 (the robbery was in 1990 btw) and that he was mozzie's apprentice or something. he thinks the thieves making sure the security guards taped up in the basement weren't uncomfortable and even chatting with them SCREAMS neal&mozzie shenanigans. this mystery of the ages heist that changed museum robbery forever is exactly the kind of bullshit neal and mozzie used to get up to.

but all good things must come to an end... at some point when peter is in his distrusting neal part of his friendship cycle he is REALLY leaning into this. tbh with neal's history he is getting a little worried that a court could be convinced of peter's tale. he has to break it to him.

peter has neal captive at the kitchen table, going over his "timeline of events" for the billionth time until neal is like "ok peter.... i have a confession to make." peter's expression at this can best be described as !!! "when the isabella stewart gardner museum was robbed in march 1990 i was..." peter is on the Edge Of His Fucking Seat "...five years old. i genuinely am stunned that you really believed that i'm 35. i was born in 1984. i literally did not even meet mozzie until like 6 months before i met YOU."

peter is fucking floored. his life is a lie. he put neal, a fucking baby? in jail? the implications this has for his five other caffrey-spiracy boards are far reaching and beyond what he can try to understand right now. he has been trying to pin the most infamous art crime of the last century on neal for years and his alibi is that he was in kindergarten.

#the questions that remain—does neal know who did do the robbery? does he know where any of the paintings are? can they solve the mystery?#having watched and read many documentarys books amd articles on the subject i think we are never getting to the bottom of this one boys.#i think the mafia guys who did it are dead and the possibility of any of the paintings having been stored in a way that they would be #salvageable today; 34 years later; are slim to fucking none. sorry rembrandts storm on the sea of galilee my best friend rembrandts storm on #the sea of galilee. i dont believe it still exists #but anyway!!!!!!#white collar #poplars.txt

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luxe-pauvre · 1 year

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NOVEMBER 2022

Read:

What It Takes To Put Our Phone Away

How Augustinus Bader Made Us Believe

“am I wasting my 20s?”

Why we should rethink our moral intuitions about deepfakes

New Brain Maps Can Predict Behaviours*

The Power of Testimony

Head Games

Distraction disaster! Notifications are ruining our concentration - here’s how to escape them

Our innate ideas prevent us seeing what is innate in human nature

How to know what you really want

The virtue of honesty requires more than just telling the truth

Careerism

This is what peak culture looks like

The Zen of Joan Didion

Trolls be gone

Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well by Tim Spector

Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children’s Brain Surgeon by Jay Jayamohan

Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis by James Davies**

Watched:

why smart people write bad

I Emailed My Doctor 133 Times: The Crisis in the British Healthcare System

Nightcrawler: Lou Bloom’s Sociopathic American Dream

Kirsten Dunst: Sofia Coppola’s Greatest Muse

Severance***

The Handmaid’s Tale (S5)

The Crown (S5)

All Quiet on the Western Front

Listened To:

Henry Marsh - Blood

Atul Gawande: The Path to Perpetual Progress

The “Winning Expert”: How To Become The Best You Can Be: Sir David Brailsford****

How To Fix Your Focus & Stop Procrastinating: Johann Hari****

This Town by The Go Go’s

Renaissance by Beyonce (again, again, again)

Went To:

Quantum Mechanics: Stranger Than Fiction? Carlo Rovelli and Jim Al-Khalili in Conversation @ the Science Museum

British Neurosurgical Research Group Meeting

#* The 3D models in this article are insane.#** One of the best books I've read this year and maybe of all time.#*** I haven't seen a series this good in a long time. It's Black Mirror level good. Absolutely *floored* me at multiple points.#**** The guy who hosts these podcasts is... not it. But my obsession with Dave Brailsford means I'll put up with him.#personal

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richardarmitagefanpage · 7 months

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Geneva by Richard was named one of The Best Thriller Books of 2023 by The Times.

#richard armitage #geneva #geneva book #faber #faber books #book #the best thriller books of 2023 #the times #article #news

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anarcho-masochist · 6 days

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I need to finally admit that I only have so much time to write and thus need to decide & commit to writing one particular thing instead of researching everything forever in the hopes that I will one day have time to write All the things. You have no idea how nuanced my internal discussions on the topic have gotten at this point, though. The next post will be a poll on what to write or post about first.

#blog meta #i have. information #and i need to distribute this information #because the fact other people can't seem to do research and think about it annoys me #but i also acknowledge that i have the advantage of an academic and scientific background (albeit not in the field yet)#as well as an upbringing that prioritized both those things + research skills and critical thinking #so the best thing to do? write clear and accessible overviews that are well-researched and have proper bibliographies #because a lot of those pop-sci articles are worse than half the unsubstantiated claims i see on here...#and i happen to have the dedication to sift through scientific articles in order to fight the misinformation AND make the topic approachabl #going to set myself a deadline of 1 week because otherwise i will not do it timely #i can spend months writing a thing if left to my own devices #and in that case it becomes very comprehensive indeed BUT it also becomes book-length and completely inaccessible :(#because no one is going to reblog a 30k explanation with 100+ sources and that is what it would end up being #i am an over-researcher and an over-writer if there ever was one #so i will prioritize keeping things short and doing them timely #as well as post concepts that are inherently shorter and less formal #the most bang for your buck so to speak #especially when it comes to maximizing helpfulness (since people will not read and spread it otherwise)#but some of the things I want to talk about are inherently more in-depth #okay. rambling in tags time is over

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kirbyddd · 9 months

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barkbarkbark Riichi Book I's writing is like screeching chalkboard to my game designer's, translator's, and writer's ears all at once

it's got great concepts buried in there but it's in like the most anti-comprehension packaging conceivable

#what the hell is wrong with you #folks like you are the BANE of game designers everywhere #and game PLAYERS for that matter #THIS is the best strategy reference the English speaking world's got?#baddabingbaddaboom ladies and gentlemen #im about to make bank writing the West's first riichi primer that actually meets the standards of the modern analogue game industry #(which to be honest is abysmal right now the industry's in an insane 'text free' fad right now where every word is replaced with a symbol)#alright then im gonna set the new standard then #imma bout to do for Riichi Mahjong what i did for Ryuutama Traversées 🫸🤛#and for all the dudes at unpub who know how to design incredible games but dont know how to write instructions #alright sorry I'll calm down #but seriously i am gonna start throwing together an actually quality-controlled guide #cause every english resource ive found so far has been like this... inconsistent and full of holes and omissions in explanations #chiba talks about the game's strategic immaturity in the west... well it's got an even bigger gap of educational immaturity #anyways.... I'll toss a bit of effort that way #we'll see how far i take it #I'll either make a few loose articles or a fully fledged book. no in between #god i dont have the energy to make another book when i dont even know if Traversées is ever gonna see the light of day #100% complete full color layout and everything. publishing limbo is real and it's every bit as stupid and unnecessary as you think.#(my case is much simpler than most though cause im only working with two small publishers rather than a big corp)#but still. damn #anyways im so tempted to throw some of my rulebook magic at riichi while it's got my interest #not like i need to write a strategy tome the game just needs a professional quality introduction #don't make me do it i absolutely will do it #i did it for ryuutama when no one wanted to give a decent publication-quality localization for the supplements #and by garriot i will do it for riichi mahjong too if no one gives me a quality guide. i aint afraid of a global high strategy game #<- manic #(im not manic im just extremely restless having not been able to do any solid design work in a while and this book is getting me riled up)#cause it's like “i could write such a more coherent rulebook and HAVE written a more coherent rulebook. so why don't i do it again?”#the Disease is why. but maybe I'll give it a shot anyways if i get a second wind (i guess im otakaze right now harharharhar)

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itsvs · 6 months

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why do people even major journalism if you can't check sources all by your own?? like i dont see any point in your journalism if you're only in it for the money

#i just hate when my best friend uses me as a source for all kinds of information #girl you're literally studying journalism i wouldn't be there to write your fucking exams do your own research 😂😂#also why do you even approach people to give you information when you know it can be clearly biased or even misinfo..#cant you read a damn book or even a wiki article and generate your own thoughts about it?? is that so hard??#sorry im just really tired of this bs.. i even send her an article but obviously she doesn't have time she's so busy scrolling through inst #insta*#i just hate these guys..

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bredforloyalty · 11 months

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you keep posting about columbo. do i need to watch it would u recommend?

first of all sorry for answering more than a week later... i had a feeling if i just keep on columboposting all alone eventually someone will be like what's going on.. my brain's been like THE KLUMBO!! every day most days for a while now so bear with me for a moment

my answer to "do you recommend x" is always that i can tell you about it, say what i like about it and what's possibly not to like so you can better evaluate whether it's something you would enjoy, yeah? 😳 like in the end it's either for you or it isn't and only you can find out. you know what i mean

um so columbo, the episodes are feature-length self-contained murder mysteries, if you wanted to you could start anywhere. and they aren't exactly mysteries because the concept is that you watch the murder happen and then the clues that lead to the arrest are uncovered gradually and the lieutenant and the killer dance around each other until the latter incriminates themself. usually because they underestimated columbo because he's a shabby little guy and appears to be sort of a bumbling idiot but is actually incredibly perceptive and sharp-witted, and he knows how the (usually rich) self-important murderers see him and uses that against them, as well as his compassion and intuition. that's pretty much it, it's a reverse whodunnit

i think (and it may be obvious) that the appeal of the show other than the crime/mystery is columbo, if you like him that could possibly be the thing that makes you continue watching. so i'll tell you that he doesn't carry a gun, can't stand the sight of blood, or high places, loves his wife. and his dog. simple guy, shrewd though. same rumpled coat and shitty little peugeot convertible all the time. he's very socratic in his methods, non-violent, and i think that's what really attracted me to this show. i enjoy the masculinity without the usual baggage, without the arrogance and the domineering and the posturing, if that makes sense lol.. plus i think peter falk's performance is wonderfully human, stephen fry said this once in an interview if i remember correctly: there's a certain warmth to it. columbo's a humble, virtuous character, yeah he's disheveled, a little all over the place but he understands people and is endlessly curious and dedicated and that's how he wins. and i like that and i think he's a bit of an unusual character because we're far from the macho tough guy cops who intimidate and coerce and threaten And from the trope of the egotistical superhuman genius detective.. he's a little guy c'maahn he's just a little guyy (it's not about him though viewers aren't even supposed to know his first name and it's hard to tell when he's bluffing and his private life is never the focus. so, a mysterious little guy)

TLDR: yes i recommend it if you like mysteries and would enjoy a crime drama with moments of silliness or would appreciate the unconventional masculinity (for his time definitely) i see in this character, and no i don't recommend it if you'd rather watch things that are short and snappy or if you strongly prefer an overarching plot or if you hate the look and feel of the 70s or if you don't like peter falk's whole deal and especially not if your pet peeve is talking in circles. oh and there are some moments and aspects of episodes that didn't age well but they're very few and far between imo. just wanted to mention that, i know nothing is perfect ofc<3

so yeah i do recommend it because i love it, thank you for asking !! :)

#i had this whole thing where i rambled about which episodes are probably best to start with but i'm just gonna say‚ start with murder by #the book (first episode but not the pilot) or double exposure or suitable for framing. opinions vary on many episodes but i think these are #generally loved. also negative reaction has a killer that didn't interest me but it's great for getting to know columbo #but there are many articles and posts with opinions about which episodes are the best and which are good to start with #articles about why people watch/love columbo too. like if you didn't trust me and wanted different sources hdshvy #ask #columbo

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xumoonhao · 8 months

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what i read in august 2023 💖

(entries marked with an * indicate favourites; entries marked with an ! indicate things i didnt like; entries marked with an !!! indicate things i HATE)

{articles in green are short reads [2-10 minutes]; articles in yellow are medium [11-25 minutes]; articles in red are long [longer than 25 minutes].}

ONLINE ARTICLES

Imagination Is a Spectrum – and 1% of People Can’t Mentally Visualise Things at All by Sharon Geva | The Conversation

This Car Was Stolen From a Driveway in Canada. We Found It in West Africa by David Common | CBC News

When Girls Get "Boy Names" by Jamie Kenney | Romper

This Is the Kind of Music You Should Listen to at Work by Lauren Davidson | The Telegraph

What Is Orientalism? A Stereotyped, Colonialist Vision of Asian Cultures by Namrata Verghese | Teen Vogue

The ‘Very Special Episodes’ on TV That Actually Changed People’s Lives by Desi Jedeikin | Mel Magazine

The Extreme Weather Isn’t Ending With Summer by Lois Parshley | The Atlantic

* Ancient Androids: Even Before Electricity, Robots Freaked People Out by Lisa Hix | Collectors Weekly

BOOKS

!!! Mary: An Awakening of Terror by Nat Cassidy (2022) * 0.25/5 (Genuinely, I cannot express how much I HATE this book. Definitely the worst I’ve read this year!!!)

* Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt (2012) ★★★★★ 5/5

! To the Bridge by Yasuko Thanh (2023) ⋆★ 1.5/5

* Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer ★★★★★ (2013) 5/5

* Wild by Cheryl Strayed (2012) ★★★★★ 5/5

! Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher (2009) ★ 1/5

reader apps: pocket | omnivore my storygraph

#i!!! truly didnt read many articles this month :( but!!! i read more books so it works out :3 #braiding sweetgrass & wild were also pretty long and had a Lot to say so they took a bit longer to get through #but braiding sweetgrass was Incredible. best nonfiction i read this year i think <3 #OH and i really can’t enough how bad Mary was. like i get mad just remembering it #reading list #🎆.txt

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colourless-hydrangeas · 2 years

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What is with otome games with historical setting and TB? Why is this a thing?

#otome games #is this a trope of some sort?#it's kind of anxiety-inducing #the chances that the LI will infect people around them #specifically when it's a whole castle full of samurai #and what's worse is that slbp shingen walks around absolutely naked in his castle #then we have the ones who are hiding their illness #i wonder how many shinsengumi soldiers were infected #living and sanitation conditions weren't the best according to most books and online articles i have read

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holy-prophet-man · 2 years

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i hate josh gad

i am fully convinced that the reason no one gives a flying fuck about arnold in the bom fandom is because of josh gad. most people watch the obc bootleg right??

i cannot explain in words how much i HATE HIM. i’m sorry. there is not a single good bootleg with a good arnold actor on any website ever. ben platt does not play arnold in the way that arnold is meant to be played and JOSH GAD MAKES ME WANT TO RIP MY EARS OFF.

watching the obc bootleg and seeing him miss his cues and doing that fucking laugh and reducing his character to loud = funny fills me with such unfathomable rage. and while the original broadway show before the changes has LOADS more pricingham shit (their little song together when they make up, andrew rannells being really touchy for some reason, all of it really) i genuinely am not even mad as to why some people don’t see it because the thought of josh gad as cunningham makes me feel ill.

fans of bom who have only seen bootlegs on youtube i will personally buy you a plane ticket to the uk so you can come and see one of tom xanders shows before he leaves because then you will actually be able to see that cunningham is a good character anyway i think i’m fucking crazy

#????????#is this a hot take i don’t fucking know #josh gads voice goes RIGHT through me #all my friends irl agree that he’s??? annoying am i coming out with a hot take here #the book of mormon #the book of mormon musical #elder cunningham #lol #gonna start a tag for my talking #kate’s talking lol #withdrawing from making a 20 page article on why arnold cunningham is the best book of mormon character #oh god i am fucking crazy

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