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Feb. 18th, 2015 06:23 pmY'all, I am a disappointment to my Northern roots, but I can't deal with actual winter weather anymore, and single-digit temperatures (ºF) are entirely too much hassle. I gave BabyBoy the 'no, don't count on them delaying school tomorrow' speech, but I'd be thrilled if they did. I drive him to school every morning, so he's fine, but kids around here, even middle-class kids, just don't have coats and gear to wait out in those kind of temps for a bus.
My super-thrilling life, everyone.
Books? Books.
finished
The Martian, Andy Weir, which I liked, and zoomed through, but I found myself reading like I was reading specs for work, just not really caring about the details and taking it on faith that the science worked. I also found myself half-covering my eyes at some of the interpersonal interactions--seriously, there were a few lines that I would have groaned at if I'd been reading fic, much less white-hot, optioned by Matt Damon best-seller. All that being said, I cannot *wait* to see the movie, because I pretty much love the casting and Kristen Wiig especially should rock the shit out of the NASA press secretary.
The Sweet Spot: How to Find Your Groove at Home and Work, Christine Carter, which I wish had been longer--I think 30% of it was notes & bibliography & it wasn't that long of a book to begin with. I am all for citing sources (and providing sources, not just anecdotal evidence) but maybe a few more case studies would have been nice? (I can't believe I just typed that; normally, I'm all 'too many happy stories, where's my research?') I run about 50/50 with the working mother advice books, but this one did not leave me enraged, and even in its brevity, it gave me points to think through, so we definitely count it as a win.
reading
How To Be a Heroine, Or, What I’ve Learned from Reading too Much, Samantha Ellis -- Oh, I am eating this up with a spoon, right from the first anecdote of how the book came to be as the author has an epiphany on the moors that Cathy Earnshaw was the wrong Bronte heroine to want to emulate (Jane Eyre is the right one, fyi, a sentiment I agree with wholeheartedly. YMMV, of course, but we should talk about it in the comments.)
Daring Greatly, Brene Brown -- Again, this kept popping up in other things I was reading and seeing, so I'm following my subconscious and giving it a try. I have not been tempted to throw it across the room yet (my engineering brain does not take to the woo-woo stuff well), which bodes well for finishing.
next
There are so many in the TBR pile--I may just use a random number generator and pull one out of the virtual stacks.
My super-thrilling life, everyone.
Books? Books.
finished
The Martian, Andy Weir, which I liked, and zoomed through, but I found myself reading like I was reading specs for work, just not really caring about the details and taking it on faith that the science worked. I also found myself half-covering my eyes at some of the interpersonal interactions--seriously, there were a few lines that I would have groaned at if I'd been reading fic, much less white-hot, optioned by Matt Damon best-seller. All that being said, I cannot *wait* to see the movie, because I pretty much love the casting and Kristen Wiig especially should rock the shit out of the NASA press secretary.
The Sweet Spot: How to Find Your Groove at Home and Work, Christine Carter, which I wish had been longer--I think 30% of it was notes & bibliography & it wasn't that long of a book to begin with. I am all for citing sources (and providing sources, not just anecdotal evidence) but maybe a few more case studies would have been nice? (I can't believe I just typed that; normally, I'm all 'too many happy stories, where's my research?') I run about 50/50 with the working mother advice books, but this one did not leave me enraged, and even in its brevity, it gave me points to think through, so we definitely count it as a win.
reading
How To Be a Heroine, Or, What I’ve Learned from Reading too Much, Samantha Ellis -- Oh, I am eating this up with a spoon, right from the first anecdote of how the book came to be as the author has an epiphany on the moors that Cathy Earnshaw was the wrong Bronte heroine to want to emulate (Jane Eyre is the right one, fyi, a sentiment I agree with wholeheartedly. YMMV, of course, but we should talk about it in the comments.)
Daring Greatly, Brene Brown -- Again, this kept popping up in other things I was reading and seeing, so I'm following my subconscious and giving it a try. I have not been tempted to throw it across the room yet (my engineering brain does not take to the woo-woo stuff well), which bodes well for finishing.
next
There are so many in the TBR pile--I may just use a random number generator and pull one out of the virtual stacks.
