Book club

[cornerofmadness]

I think I'm going to keep going to book club because every other month we're having free themed reads vs us all reading one book. Next up summer beach read. I already have the perfect book, a choose your own adventure summer slasher book. Can't wait.

Today was a day where our department might have been too honest with the outside reviewer but maybe having an outsider repeat what we're saying are problems will sink in.

Spoke to my shit insurance about my dex com. Oh yes just send it to the pharmacy. we use them. 3 hours later CVS texts me to say they require authorization. So much for that. Your rep literally LIED to me on the phone. I hate this insurance.

Have the Friday 50 Fan rec (I did not write this week. I've been only working on the novel which is a good thing)


Stay With Me Torchwood

Safety In Numbers The Fantastic Journey

You're Insecure (Pushing Allure) Hazbin Hotel

Lemons Hazbin Hotel

The River Wild FAKE

Hope in the Future The Professionals

‘Three And Murderbot 2.0’s Most Recent Sexual Encounter (No Survivors)’ Murderbot

Enamoured Hazbin Hotel

So Much to Fix... Miraculous Ladybug

Warmup Fire Emblem Engage

Not A Dream Torchwood

dream, dream, dream, next to me, me, me Arcane: League of Legends

shining on the inside, maybe From

Killing Us Hazbin Hotel

The Horchata Compromise The Owl House

Bee-Lieve in the Me That Believes in You The Amazing Digital Circus

The Greater the Diversity The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Breaching The Defences Inspector George Gently

cover up the crooked lines 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

Perseverance Elementary (TV)/ Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (Cartoon)

Second Best Inspector George Gently


Dreamy Hazbin Hotel

Lots to Do Teen Wolf

Space Pirates and Cozy Couch DatesFire Emblem Engage

Comments

[barbaratp]

Odeio quando pessoas ao invés de dar informações certas mentem e nos prejudicam. Sempre fazem isso e é cansativo. Boa sorte com isso querida.

[cornerofmadness]

Three of us could call this insurance and we'd three different answers to the same question. I'm with you. This is tiring

[barbaratp]

Aqui eu sou muito chata nas coisas e se isso me acontece eu meto denuncia faço reclamação e estresso eles tanto que uma hora resolvem. Meu plano de internet e telefone uma vez fez uma gracinha comigo de cancelar minha linha alegando que eu em um estado diferente de onde moro fiz o pedido. Na hora desci lá doente de pneumonia, com máscara e febre alta, levei o atestado médico provando que estava aqui e fiz um barraco. Eles religaram minha linha, pediram desculpas pelo erro e me deram de graça um ano de tv a cabo como forma de amenizar o fato isso depois que eu reclamei de denunciar eles para a Anatel (empresa reguladora), coisa que fiz no passado e deu ruim pra eles.

[cornerofmadness]

You and I are very alike in that regard. I do that as well. I'm waiting. If all they need is a doctor's letter then fine but if they deny the claim after that I'm raising holy hell

[barbaratp]

Espero que você não tenha precisado fazer um escândalo para resolver seus problemas

[cornerofmadness]

not yet but it's also not resolved yet so give me time

[kitarella_imagines]

Oh that sounds like a good idea for a book club: Free Themed Reads.

Does it mean there is a theme of the month, such as the 'summer beach read' and everyone chooses a different book?

That would be less restrictive for people wouldn't it.

[cornerofmadness]

yep that's exactly what it means, you pick your own book and do a book report on it like you were in middle school, ha. That's what it was last month too and I liked that. And then in June they'd be back to reading a selected book we all read and alternating. I love this idea.

[kitarella_imagines]

That is such a good idea. And alternating would please people who like a variety.

When I've been in book clubs, I often don't like every single book they select and miss out the meetings. Having a choice sounds much better.

Thanks for the info! 😊

[cornerofmadness]

yeah same here. Especially when it's a we'll read anything. I have been looking for years for what I left behind in 99, a mystery only club and a SF/F club I read a lot of genres but book clubs seem to love to read 'important' contemporary reads and i don't like contemporary stuff.

This will hopefully be much more fun

[kitarella_imagines]

That is exactly how it is! Book clubs like to read important/pretentious books and show how cultured they are, or something.

I haven't got the energy for that, I like shorter books. That's another idea isn't it- novella length books. Who has time and energy to read really long books these days?

I could start a themed, short length book club!

[cornerofmadness]

Exactly and that was like the one thing I liked about the Grady Henrix's The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires it opens with the main character(s) breaking off from the pretentious book club to form their own.

I, as a writer, am thrilled novellas are now a thing that people want! I now limit myself to books under 400 pages. Over that I must REALLY want to read it.

You could do that. Talk to your local library. They'd probably help organize it

[kitarella_imagines]

haha, that sounds like a good idea to break off from a pretentious club!

Yes, I think short books are popular now due to people's time constraints and shortening attention spans. That's good for authors! And some of the most famous stories are novellas, anyway. The Time Machine, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, A Christmas Carol, Animal Farm, Death in Venice, Brokeback Mountain...

I really love the Time Machine, it is so prescient about human life...

I don't know, my local library is miles away. I'd have to hold it in the village community centre. I would say 'no phones please, we'll just talk in person.'

[cornerofmadness]

You're not wrong. The Time Machine was so good. Love Wells

I hear you the local library you hear me talk about is 17 miles from me and my other library is 22 miles in the other direction but the former is where the laundromat, grocery store and my coffee shop are too so I'm always up there

[kitarella_imagines]

Oh mine isn’t so far as yours then. You sound more normal and sociable than me though, I never leave the house unless it’s an emergency. So I suspect me running a book club and talking to other people is a pipe dream 😜

[cornerofmadness]

True, I have a people facing job so I'm used to being out and talking. You know what though, I bet there are discord video chats for this sort of thing that might be easier for you if you decide to go that way

[kitarella_imagines]

Yes, I had people facing jobs for decades til I got pregnant and became too ill to work full time, pregnancy broke my body. It’s a very long time since I was in a big group of people interacting, I find it hard to even hold a conversation now. But I've accepted now that my life is just like this—alone and isolated, there’s no point fighting it.

I would probably do a group online IF I ever did one.

[cornerofmadness]

I'm very sorry to hear that really but you can only do what your body allows you to.

[kitarella_imagines]

Thanks, I've always struggled physically and pregnancy was the last straw. I gave up going out of the home about 6 years ago, my health is much better if I stay indoors.

[cornerofmadness]

At least you can hold your own indoors

[kitarella_imagines]

Yes I'm pretty lucky in that way. I'd rather be healthy and strong, living an exciting life but it could be worse.

[cornerofmadness]

definitely a good attitude to have about it