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May. 15th, 2023 08:32 pmPeople can be annoying at times, can't they?
Sigh. I'm irritable, but I'm always irritable before a trip and when I'm anxious. I get irritated at myself, other people, and well the trip for making me anxious. At least I've figured that much out. Go me.
I was reading an article about Dean Koontz last night on petz's journal - I don't remember where she got it from. My take-away was - dear god, that man's anxieties make mine seem relatively tame in comparison. ( Read more... )
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On the book front? I'm currently listening to Viola Davis's autiobiography - Finding Me on audible. And she pretty much redefines poverty or what it is like to be dirt poor. I'm glad I didn't listen to this right after listening to Harry's Spare. She describes growing up in a house that had no water, no heat, no electricity. That was infested with rats. And being so cold, so dirty, and so filled with shame whenever she went to school. At one point, she ended up peeing in her seat (she was in kindergarten and six years of age), and the teacher sent her home - but they refused to clean up the urine. So she returned the next day to her chair set in the corner with the dried puddle of urine still in it.
She also talks about how the rats ate the faces off her dolls, and she was afraid of going into the kitchen because it was infested with rats.
This was in Providence, Rhode Island and Cedar Falls.
Davis is an excellent reader and her story-telling skills are adept. I don't know if she wrote or worked with someone to do so - but it is well written.
I'm engrossed.
Regarding Spare? Per the New Yorker, we now have proof that Harry hired a ghost-writer. Notes from Prince Harry's Ghost Writer.
( snippet )
So basically, he hired a really good ghost-writer. Which makes sense. I figured that the book was way too well-written for it to have been by Prince Harry. I've read or listened to a lot of bios - and this by far the best written one, but that's because it's the one written by a ghost-writer.
And apparently Harry had it written to feel heard.
Making my way through Rebecca Ross's "A Fire Burns Endless" - which is book 2 in her Cadence duology. It's faster paced than the previous novel - mainly because there's less exposition and more action. We're more in the middle of the story now.
It's an interesting take on the fae and how magic works. Different than anything I've seen of late.
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Had a weird ass nightmare about trying to find a place to put a bunch of Christmas Candy that I took from my brother's stash. I was trying to put it in a cabinet of sorts, but also had clothes to put in it and nothing fit in the drawers.
I think it's travel worries? No clue.
Sigh. I'm irritable, but I'm always irritable before a trip and when I'm anxious. I get irritated at myself, other people, and well the trip for making me anxious. At least I've figured that much out. Go me.
I was reading an article about Dean Koontz last night on petz's journal - I don't remember where she got it from. My take-away was - dear god, that man's anxieties make mine seem relatively tame in comparison. ( Read more... )
***
On the book front? I'm currently listening to Viola Davis's autiobiography - Finding Me on audible. And she pretty much redefines poverty or what it is like to be dirt poor. I'm glad I didn't listen to this right after listening to Harry's Spare. She describes growing up in a house that had no water, no heat, no electricity. That was infested with rats. And being so cold, so dirty, and so filled with shame whenever she went to school. At one point, she ended up peeing in her seat (she was in kindergarten and six years of age), and the teacher sent her home - but they refused to clean up the urine. So she returned the next day to her chair set in the corner with the dried puddle of urine still in it.
She also talks about how the rats ate the faces off her dolls, and she was afraid of going into the kitchen because it was infested with rats.
This was in Providence, Rhode Island and Cedar Falls.
Davis is an excellent reader and her story-telling skills are adept. I don't know if she wrote or worked with someone to do so - but it is well written.
I'm engrossed.
Regarding Spare? Per the New Yorker, we now have proof that Harry hired a ghost-writer. Notes from Prince Harry's Ghost Writer.
( snippet )
So basically, he hired a really good ghost-writer. Which makes sense. I figured that the book was way too well-written for it to have been by Prince Harry. I've read or listened to a lot of bios - and this by far the best written one, but that's because it's the one written by a ghost-writer.
And apparently Harry had it written to feel heard.
Making my way through Rebecca Ross's "A Fire Burns Endless" - which is book 2 in her Cadence duology. It's faster paced than the previous novel - mainly because there's less exposition and more action. We're more in the middle of the story now.
It's an interesting take on the fae and how magic works. Different than anything I've seen of late.
***
Had a weird ass nightmare about trying to find a place to put a bunch of Christmas Candy that I took from my brother's stash. I was trying to put it in a cabinet of sorts, but also had clothes to put in it and nothing fit in the drawers.
I think it's travel worries? No clue.