Tuesday, January 7, 2020
computer...
So I have two laptops and neither does what it's supposed to. One, the one I'd been using, was actually a really great machine, and then one day the hinge just broke and the screen has been gaping open on the side ever since. And then it started having an issue where it would fucking constantly disconnect from wifi and I'd have to mess with it to get it to connect again. Now the option for wifi is completely gone, so it officially no longer goes online. (I'm sure it'd work with ethernet but I don't have a cable handy.) The second computer is a hand me down from my friend. She got a new laptop and gave me her old one because I was having issues with mine. This computer can stay connected to the internet, and it has nice strong hinges. But everything else about it is pretty much an exercise in frustration. It has a touch screen but the touch screen has never worked... so it constantly has a problem with ghost tapping. The cursor moves itself, so when I'm typing, sometimes the cursor will move to the middle of a word or the beginning of a sentence... so I'll be typing and the words will come up backwards. I'm not explaining that well, but does it sound frustrating? Because it's incredibly frustrating! So I'm planning to get a new computer because I can't fucking live like this anymore... but I hate windows 10 so much I'm thinking of getting a mac, and those are much more expensive.. so maybe a refurb. So fingers crossed that if I do that I don't end up with a lemon. But man, I can't keep dealing with these half functioning machines.
Sunday, January 5, 2020
DYRC 19/Merry Misfits Book Club December: The Snow Tree by Caroline Repchuk
So this is my second time writing this because the computer I'm using is a literal piece of shit and decided to just... go ahead and delete the entire fucking thing after I added an image lol. (And then it autosaved before I could load a previously saved draft. Cool, so cool.) My next blog post should probably be my computer woes lol.
Anyways...
So there was a lot of cheating involved in the selection of the book I read for December. As I've mentioned before, I don't have a lot of time to read anymore and due to stress and depression and etc I don't necessarily spend a lot of my very little free time reading (like arguably I should/could). So in these reading challenges, I'm always excited when I can have a shortcut -- covering both challenges with one book, whenever I can read a short book or a comic or children's book, etc. The theme for Merry Misfits was holiday -- easy enough. The theme for DYRC was fantasy. Now, I know they mean something like Lord or the Rings or Game of Thrones, but I didn't want a big long book right now. I decided to take "fantasy" as a broad descriptor rather than as a genre, really just so I could make things a little easier on myself. Sue me, lol. I just wanted a fantasy-esque Christmassy children's book, so I picked The Snow Tree by Caroline Repchuck.
I'm giving myself a pass on calling this fantasy because it has talking animals and nothing could be more fantastic, lol. Anyways, this is a really cute little book and the art is beautiful. The pages are textured and it's really fun and sweet. Because it's just a little children's book I don't have a lot to say, but I just really wanted to read a cute little book like this and it hit the literary spot.
I didn't post a goodreads review on this book. However here is my profile, and you should follow me. Here is the page for this book... other people have written better reviews than this one and you can read them there, lol.
I read this book on December 22.
Would I recommend this book to a friend? If you like children's books, yes.
Anyways...
So there was a lot of cheating involved in the selection of the book I read for December. As I've mentioned before, I don't have a lot of time to read anymore and due to stress and depression and etc I don't necessarily spend a lot of my very little free time reading (like arguably I should/could). So in these reading challenges, I'm always excited when I can have a shortcut -- covering both challenges with one book, whenever I can read a short book or a comic or children's book, etc. The theme for Merry Misfits was holiday -- easy enough. The theme for DYRC was fantasy. Now, I know they mean something like Lord or the Rings or Game of Thrones, but I didn't want a big long book right now. I decided to take "fantasy" as a broad descriptor rather than as a genre, really just so I could make things a little easier on myself. Sue me, lol. I just wanted a fantasy-esque Christmassy children's book, so I picked The Snow Tree by Caroline Repchuck.
I'm giving myself a pass on calling this fantasy because it has talking animals and nothing could be more fantastic, lol. Anyways, this is a really cute little book and the art is beautiful. The pages are textured and it's really fun and sweet. Because it's just a little children's book I don't have a lot to say, but I just really wanted to read a cute little book like this and it hit the literary spot.
I didn't post a goodreads review on this book. However here is my profile, and you should follow me. Here is the page for this book... other people have written better reviews than this one and you can read them there, lol.
I read this book on December 22.
Would I recommend this book to a friend? If you like children's books, yes.
DYRC19/Merry Misfits Book Club November: Edgar Allen Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems
New year, same old me. Here I am, months after the fact, writing a book post for y'all… knowing full well that no one was waiting for this, lol. Anyways, the theme for DYRC in November was poetry, and the theme for the Merry Misfits was short story. I was deciding on this book during October, the spookiest month of the year... I dressed as the Phantom of the Opera for Halloween, and there's a scene in that book where the Phantom dresses in a Poe cosplay lol, so it all added up to me picking this Poe collection (which I got in ebook format for my Kindle tablet for like $1).
Full disclosure: I didn't read this entire thing. But to be fair, that's not the point of a complete works type of book. Those are meant to be read as you please -- pick and choose pieces, read out of order, read in order but skip things if you want... it doesn't matter. I read two of the short stories and a selection of the poems. Obviously, Poe is an incredibly talented and important writer -- you don't need me to explain that to you. I will say, I enjoyed everything I read here. The stories I picked ("The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Cask of Amontillado") were great, but you really can't go wrong. The poetry, of course, was wonderful too. The great thing about a collection like this is that I can revisit it whenever I want and read another story or a couple more poems. There's enough material there that even if you do want to read it straight through from beginning to end you won't run out of stuff to read for a while.
Here is my goodreads review. It's only one sentence, lol.
I read this book between November 7th and (according to Goodreads) December 22. I don't know if that date is accurate, I don't remember reading any of this that recently. But whatever... like I said, I just sort of picked and chose what I read, so it doesn't necessarily matter.
Would I recommend this book? Of course.
Full disclosure: I didn't read this entire thing. But to be fair, that's not the point of a complete works type of book. Those are meant to be read as you please -- pick and choose pieces, read out of order, read in order but skip things if you want... it doesn't matter. I read two of the short stories and a selection of the poems. Obviously, Poe is an incredibly talented and important writer -- you don't need me to explain that to you. I will say, I enjoyed everything I read here. The stories I picked ("The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Cask of Amontillado") were great, but you really can't go wrong. The poetry, of course, was wonderful too. The great thing about a collection like this is that I can revisit it whenever I want and read another story or a couple more poems. There's enough material there that even if you do want to read it straight through from beginning to end you won't run out of stuff to read for a while.
Here is my goodreads review. It's only one sentence, lol.
I read this book between November 7th and (according to Goodreads) December 22. I don't know if that date is accurate, I don't remember reading any of this that recently. But whatever... like I said, I just sort of picked and chose what I read, so it doesn't necessarily matter.
Would I recommend this book? Of course.
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