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CT 2024.2: Windy opines on exes

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Books! I am already looking forward to reading Harry Potter out loud to my girls. An aspect of deep sadness for me is that my stepkids just... don't really read. I think they respectively started the Harry Potter series but didn't get into it, and then they watched the movies so now they claim they don't need to read the books. Dagger to my heart. I've tried to share so many favorite books from my youth with them (My Side of the Mountain, The Giver, The Borrowers, Cheaper by the Dozen, to name a few) and they go either untouched or half-read. The only exception is The Hunger Games. It's been such a missed opportunity for connection and such a gaping difference between us all as people.

My own reading list for last year was:
Good for a Girl - (Lauren Fleshman's memoir of sorts; totally worth reading for anyone, but especially people who have daughters in sports)
The Light Pirate
Sun Damage
Fourth Wing
Iron Flame
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Midnight Library
Spare
Wish You Were Here
The Measure
The Silent Patient

Currently Checked Out:
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Hang the Moon
 
lbE08 said:
Books! I am already looking forward to reading Harry Potter out loud to my girls. An aspect of deep sadness for me is that my stepkids just... don't really read. I think they respectively started the Harry Potter series but didn't get into it, and then they watched the movies so now they claim they don't need to read the books. Dagger to my heart. I've tried to share so many favorite books from my youth with them (My Side of the Mountain, The Giver, The Borrowers, Cheaper by the Dozen, to name a few) and they go either untouched or half-read. The only exception is The Hunger Games. It's been such a missed opportunity for connection and such a gaping difference between us all as people.

My own reading list for last year was:
Good for a Girl - (Lauren Fleshman's memoir of sorts; totally worth reading for anyone, but especially people who have daughters in sports)
The Light Pirate
Sun Damage
Fourth Wing
Iron Flame
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Midnight Library
Spare
Wish You Were Here
The Measure
The Silent Patient

Currently Checked Out:
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Hang the Moon
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My man. Great fucking book, yo.
 
I wish I enjoyed reading. How does one get into it? Even subject matters I enjoy, I eventually just lose interest in the book. I guess I just have some low level ADD or something going on or I'm too unimaginative. I like the movies though when they come out!
 
lbE08 said:
Books! I am already looking forward to reading Harry Potter out loud to my girls. An aspect of deep sadness for me is that my stepkids just... don't really read. I think they respectively started the Harry Potter series but didn't get into it, and then they watched the movies so now they claim they don't need to read the books. Dagger to my heart. I've tried to share so many favorite books from my youth with them (My Side of the Mountain, The Giver, The Borrowers, Cheaper by the Dozen, to name a few) and they go either untouched or half-read. The only exception is The Hunger Games. It's been such a missed opportunity for connection and such a gaping difference between us all as people.

My own reading list for last year was:
Good for a Girl - (Lauren Fleshman's memoir of sorts; totally worth reading for anyone, but especially people who have daughters in sports)
The Light Pirate
Sun Damage
Fourth Wing
Iron Flame
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Midnight Library
Spare
Wish You Were Here
The Measure
The Silent Patient

Currently Checked Out:
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Hang the Moon
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Probs my favorite reads of the year (in a year that mostly included other Fantasy/Romance series lol that kind of year). Iron Flame was a bit clunky (should have been 2 books!) but I'm in love with the characters and story enough to forgive any missteps from a writing perspective. Absolutely sweating book 3.
 
Reading was a huge part of my childhood, but partly because there wasn't that much else to do and by the time we got a PC I'd kind of already established a foundation (we also had strict limits). I am worried about getting my kiddo to enjoy reading when he's older with all the distractions. I guess all I can do is set an example and try to create shared experiences around reading and hope for the best (this approach has not worked out to making him enjoy trying new foods)
 
Deacfan2009 said:
Probs my favorite reads of the year (in a year that mostly included other Fantasy/Romance series lol that kind of year). Iron Flame was a bit clunky (should have been 2 books!) but I'm in love with the characters and story enough to forgive any missteps from a writing perspective. Absolutely sweating book 3.
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Just finished iron flame yesterday. They are such fun books. Just pure escapist fantasy. I do really like the characters and the author does a great job of creating those emotional and political stakes in the plot.

I read each of the books in less than three days because I could not put them down.
 
lbE08 said:
Wow, hot take. Libraries and access to resources and information are paramount to creating healthy and safe communities.
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I can get 95% of what’s at the library on my iPhone. I didn’t realize how many luddites we had on this board.
 
Deacfan2009 said:
Reading was a huge part of my childhood, but partly because there wasn't that much else to do and by the time we got a PC I'd kind of already established a foundation (we also had strict limits). I am worried about getting my kiddo to enjoy reading when he's older with all the distractions. I guess all I can do is set an example and try to create shared experiences around reading and hope for the best (this approach has not worked out to making him enjoy trying new foods)
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Our kids were all really big readers when they were young, especially our middle kid. But the older two have really fallen off in high school. I really want them to recapture that love of reading, but can’t push it.
 
deacfan78 said:
I wish I enjoyed reading. How does one get into it? Even subject matters I enjoy, I eventually just lose interest in the book. I guess I just have some low level ADD or something going on or I'm too unimaginative. I like the movies though when they come out!
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My problem is that I read at a conversation-pace, so it takes me FOR EV ER to get through a book. I'm good for a few books per year and I'd say half of my reading gets done in airports/airplanes.
 
BeachBumDeac said:
My kingdom for some fucking beer mix packs that are actually a mix of styles and not just four different kinds of IPAs
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welp

although I think our last club pack did that – our current one is big IPAs and we're coming out with a Torpedo variety pack. plus we had the fan favorites last year which had a pilsner !
 
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