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rhiannonroot · 4 years

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Bitter Spirits’ by Jenn Bennett

Content warning: Death, violence, kidnapping, car-related peril, arson, assault

“Bitter Spirits” by Jenn Bennett was a huge and wonderful surprise. I’ve never heard of this author before now (thank you SBTB GoodReads group!) and this was a lot of fun.

Winter Magnusson is a big-ass Swedish dude and a notorious bootlegger in 1920s San Francisco. He’s also being haunted by ghosts and hexes. It is clear that his illegal activities are a factor.

He meets Aida Palmer, a medium who’s the real deal, by accident and the two start working together to figure out what the heck is going on.

They’re also super attracted to each other from the start and oh, wow, it’s just so much fun.

I’m not going to say much more partly because I had a long-ass week and I’m exhausted, partly because I am afraid of spoiling it.

“Bitter Spirits” is vibrant and fun and paced so, so well. Both of our leads are unconventionally hot and have issues. These are explored in an authentic way and the character development works well.

There were a few things that gave me pause while reading. One, the secondary characters are a little flat, which has an extra layer of questionable-ness because many of them are Chinese. Two, there’s some racial slurs and ableist language. Arguably it’s because the author is trying to explore some tensions during this era, but it made me feel a little queasy as a reader.

My verdict as of right now is that the book needed another round of sensitivity edits, but it’s not too egregious as far as I can tell.

Also, if you’re a more sensitive reader, be warned. There are more than a few things that might be triggering.

This was so much fun and I really liked Aida and Winter as a couple. As of now, I do plan on reading the rest of the series.

If you’re playing along with The Ripped Bodice’s Bingo challenge, “Bitter Spirits” would count for the Bootleggers, Psychics and I’m on a Boat squares.

#books #book reviews #romance novels

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littlewalken · 3 years

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Oct 26

Going to hope my copy of the anniversary edition of The Man in the Red Velvet Dress is just behind that bag over there so I can check it for the thing about convincing feminine voices. While it isn't my only book on that and related subject matters being updated in 2011 it could very well be a candidate.

Also listened to a podcast about the mystery weekend of SBTB and one of the reviewers called Larry Cedar hot.

~muffled~ That's Master Larry, I didn't get an MFA for nothing.

Dolphin brain must separate that Larry from the New Monkees Larry because he's Baby Larry. Even if he's 50 now. Make a meme of that lady carrying a man and holding her hand out at someone else with Marty Ross carrying Larry Saltis. And Sean Altman carrying that kid he does the Everly Set with.

In other news I got my TV hooked up. It's one of those without proper wifi so I'm stuck with that company's version of free tv. I got one local news channel and a couple other ones I like enough, and old Elvira shows go figure. It also has me wondering if some of the buffering and dead air shit is what paid streaming does. And if so I ain't paying for shit.

This isn't quite the shittiest service the provider offers, they have a boomer tech-phobic just enough to Email version, but it's definitely down there. After hearing the bitching at the last house over the bundle I decided the $19.95 you get what you get and you'll have to deal with it package. We don't game or Netflix so it's working.

Might real life outside today, might real life here today, all depends on the weather. But I'm definitely going to look for the books.

And thanks to foresight me for deciding to put my shoe and slipper bag where I could get to it because otherwise my feets would be freezing. The rest of me would still be warm because of menopause.

It's weird with my feet being cold tho because all summer I was unable to figure out if it was neuropathy or vitamin deficiency or anemia or all of the above making my feet feel like they were burning. I tried some remedies that didn't work, like putting Vape-O-Rub on my feet and not being able to get it off fast enough but it might work for you, but eating better and hydrating properly has helped.

Anemia and some foot pain kind of goes hand in hand but not like that form of burning.

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krystee · 3 years

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repost from @sbtbanniversary For the role of Kristy, the girl who wants to join Bayside High’s wrestling team, casting director Robin Lippin has found 19-year-old actress Krystee Clark! Clark was born in Palatka, Florida but grew up in St. Petersburg. A three-time Florida State champion Baton twirler, she also trained in aerobics, dance (jazz, tap, ballet, acrobatics), music (piano and flute), ice and roller skating, among other sports. She was also a cheerleader in high school, where she graduated at 16 with a 4.0 GPA (she scored an IQ of 150+). She was featured in the 28th edition of “Who’s Who in Baron Twirling” and won over 200 baton trophies. She made her on-screen debut in 1980 in a Kellog’s commercial. Other work followed for brands like Coke, Burger King, Swatch Watch, Mattel, Tyrone Mall, Fedco and Sea World. She trained theatrically with The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena. Her stage credits include such plays as “Cinderella”, “Cabaret”, Little Shop of Horrors”, “West Side Story” and “Grease”. After a couple of industrial films (one for Murjani Group’s Gloria Vanderbilt jeans), she made her TV debut in “Saved by the Bell”! #savedbythebell #sbtb #sbtbguests #krysteeclark #casting #castingdirector #robinlippin #palatka #batontwirler #kellogs #theacademyofdramaticarts #pasadena #grease #sbtbstory (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLPc9tCgKh7/?igshid=1kuj9mboghbbt

#savedbythebell #sbtb #sbtbguests #krysteeclark #casting #castingdirector #robinlippin #palatka #batontwirler #kellogs #theacademyofdramaticarts #pasadena #grease #sbtbstory

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ezriela · 4 years

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Bleached Blonde Babes of the 90's 👱🏻

[NOT a Plot Twist]

#buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #james marsters #spike #saved by the bell edit #saved by the bell #zack morris #mark paul gosselaar #mark-paul gosselaar #sbtb #spike edit #buffy edit #mine #90s kid #90s icons #vintage 90s #90s #90's

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hashtagln4 · 2 years

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in this world full of people, there’s one loving me 🤍

song: something i need - ben haenow

ship: mac morris & daisy jimenéz (macdaisy/maisy)

show: saved by the bell reboot

#my edit #fancam #macdaisy #macdaisy fancam #mac morris #daisy jiménez #mac x daisy #saved by the bell #saved by the bell 2020 #sbtb 2020 #sbtbedit #sbtb reboot #mac morris is hot

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guaripetemagazine · 4 years

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Whatcha Reading? December 2019 Edition, Part Two

We have reached the last Whatcha Reading of 2019! Let’s pour one out for the books we’ve finished this year.

SBTB hopes you’ve ended your year of reading with something good. If not, there are tons more books waiting for you in the new year!

Catherine: I’m in the middle of Christmas madness (singing and culinary editions), so I’m sticking to rereads at the moment. In particular, I’m rereading…

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#Books Reviews #Easy Reading Books #Libros Actuales

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bythebayio · 7 years

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Tim Perrett at Scale

Tim Perrett leads Scala teams at Verizon, running one of the largest industrial codebases and teams building and maintaining it. Tim is also a founding board member of the Scala Center. You can hear Tim presenting Nelson: Rigorous Deployment for a Functional World. Reserve your seats to be at Twitter for our fifth naniversary edition of Scale By the Bay!

1. You have the most diverse set of interests, from Lift to book authoring to implementing Enigma in FP to running huge FP teams at Verizon to Scala Center board guidance to devops with Scala and HashiStack. Can you outline the core set of abstractions that makes you tick and manage all these pursuits with heart and determination?

My modus operandi is that hard work and dedication can overcome any problem, and this is a philosophy that has permeated my life at every level. Unlike many people in our industry, I left school at a young age and did not attend university. My first job was actually working in a factory, so I learnt early in my career that nothing comes for free; your life is what you make it, and the only limit to your own learning is yourself. Aside from a strong work ethic, humility is something that enables one to be open to the ideas of others, and I think that is a really important foundation when building teams. A team simply cannot have an idea meritocracy if one goes into discussions believing you already have the answer.

To conclude: listen, be humble and roll up your sleeves. The world isn’t going to build itself, and you’re going to need to work together to make it happen.

2. You are the most business-like FP geek I know and the most geeky technology leader. From experience, I think your voting at Scala Center shows a rare perspective that is not common for individual contributors and even 2-pizza team leads. You maneuver Scala future for the large org like a tugboat turning a Queen Mary 2. How did you grow to that level of understanding, while retaining hands-on attitude, when so many pointy-haired bosses can’t keep up with tech and switch into exec-only mode? Is it important to code at all levels of hierarchy in a software division?

Thanks for the kind words! The business acumen I would put down to having some great mentors who taught me that time is ones greatest asset; you should always understand the value of what you are being asked to spend time on, and never be afraid to question the status quo. In all likelihood, your leaders are more like you than you think, and they probably don’t have all the answers. With this frame, I think there are a whole set of things that we shouldn’t spend time on, which is why I have chosen to “swim upstream” against commonly held viewpoints.

For engineering leaders, it is possible to be a leader without a deep understanding of the technicalities, however, having a relevant understanding of the details is - in my opinion - an exponential multiplier to effectiveness. When a leader understands what it is they are asking of their team, they can better plan, accommodate feedback and enable their team to execute. If they can also work with the team to solve difficult technical challenges the team may face, then all the better.

3. Why Scala? Are you married to it?:)

Broadly I don’t believe in being religious about tools - languages, editors, schedulers etc, these are all just tools. In the past year I’ve used Scala, Rust, C++, Go, etc. Different tools for different jobs - I don’t believe in “best” tools, but rather just a different set of the trade-offs and making objective choices based on understanding those trade-offs; know the shortcomings of yourself, your team and your tools, and own those shortcomings. Broadly speaking our industry suffers from “software populism”; seldom do we see people taking a step back and actually assessing what they need, and making technology choices based on need, instead of desire. This absolutely doesn’t mean that popular tools are bad, it just means that it might well not be the right tool for you or your team. As leaders, our technology choices will shape the team, just as the team will shape the technology choices.

4. Dotty. What’s your take on it? Can you restate what we discussed at HashiConf last year and at Scala Center, what you want to see in terms of transition?

Dotty represents some of the most interesting work done in the Scala community during recent years. It does however, also represent a potentially huge risk for the community. Over the past couple of years I’ve spoken at length with Martin and others on the core language team about concerns of a Python-esq version split, and they were really receptive. Nobody wants to see a hard-fork of the ecosystem, and I’m really glad to see all the work taking place on scalafix, which will hopefully provide a viable migration path for the broader community. There are lots of smart people invested in making the migration work, so at the present junction I’m currently pretty hopeful!

5. How did you manage to assemble the all-star team you have and how does it work with all the geniuses under one roof? What happens when you put together so many 10x FP folks?

I’m really thankful to have had the opportunity to build out the team over the past few years. As with all teams and organizations, things will never be 100% plain sailing, but we’ve always strived to put rational, objective thinking over everything else, and I’d say we’ve been pretty successful at that. One only needs to look at the Verizon Github and see how it has flourished with contributions from my group - this is something I’ll be proud of for a long-time: getting a Fortune 15 company to understand the value of open-source, and actually realizing it into a useful ecosystem that others outside the organization can leverage.

In terms of how things work day to day, with the exception of my infrastructure group which builds the underlying libraries and infrastructure for everyone else, we have organizationally tried hard to not hoard talent in a single team. Instead we have tried to distribute strong talent across the board. This has two separate effects: firstly, it means that there’s no centralized burden for training and code hygiene - each team is capable of strong code review and education, and secondly it provides a highly capable liaison with the central infrastructure group. This kind of “human hub and spoke” design has been quite effective for the most part, and whilst there may be a few things I might do differently in hindsight, the net result has been resoundingly positive.

6. What is the most exciting thing for you in tech these days?

Right now we’re seeing a renaissance in infrastructure systems. At long last companies are investing resources into actually building decent tooling and platform systems for their engineering staff; this isn’t because of devops or any such thing, its because industry has realized that good tools enable the business to be more effective, which in turn has a positive dollar impact on the bottom line. I think this is pretty exciting, because these new tools - new technology - is causing major social change in organizations.

From a purely technological perspective, the work being done in autonomous and intelligent systems is fascinating! The application of commodity GPU and specialized ASIC hardware to a whole set of optimization problems is driving real innovation, both at the underlying infrastructure level and at the application layer. Be it self-driving cars or autonomous robotic factory systems; these things are going to change the world.

7. What do you want to see at SBTB the most?

Whilst the talks will no doubt be excellent, the participants interest the communities I’ve spent the most time in: functional programming and distributed systems. With this frame, needless to say I’m really looking forward to the “hallway track” spending time with old friends and making some new ones.

#interview #scalesf #scale2017

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