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I started The Lost Hero audiobook narrated by Joshua Swanson and his voice for Leo..... yikes.
#my posts#i read stuff#text#the racial stereotyping in his accent#how did this happen#heroes of olympus#leo valdez
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I reached my goal of reading 42 books this year!
#this year it has been really hard to find anything to hold my interest#i was worried i wouldn't even be able to get close to this in July#but its November and i have read 42 books#personal#readblr#i read stuff#Reading challenge#Goodreads reading challenge#Goodreads
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MURDERBOT!!!!
#my boyfriend handed me book 1 and then stared at me until i read it#anyway YES IT'S GOOD YES I LOVE MURDERBOT AND ALSO ART#i read stuff
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Suffering, according to Friedrich Nietzsche, is a blessing in disguise. His theory is that people who are able to endure difficult circumstances and pain are stronger individuals who are better prepared for life’s challenges.
#friedrich nietzsche#suffering#theory#blessing in disguise#life#wordsnquotes#i read stuff#literature#lit
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Spare by Prince Harry My rating: 2 of 5 stars 2.5
« Pa stepped back. Willy shook his head. They began talking over each other. We’ve been down this road a hundred times, they said. You’re delusional, Harry. But they were the delusional ones. »
After reading this book cover to cover, I'm forced to conclude they're right and you are, Harry. The thing is, at first, I honestly thought it was just pure character assassination and a petty - although justified, from his point of view - revenge on his brother and father and on the press. However, the more I read the more it became obvious that this was a version of the truth, his version, and because I believe some exchanges to be accurate, there's such a second reading. When William says he needs help, I felt that because I was thinking it. The thing is, beyond the who's right who's wrong, if I learned one thing reading this book it's that Harry needs help. For someone who claims to have learned accountability in the army you can't find one single instance in this book where he actually takes responsability, where he actually owns up to his mistakes, one since story where he comes off in a bad light or a little bad. He's always the hero and he's always the martyr or the victim of his own story. It's one or the other. It's never his fault. It's always someone else's: his brother's, his father's, the press', Camilla's, the list goes on and on... The irony is, every time someone told him he was delusional or needed help, I was more enclined to believe them than he who was the actual person recounting the story because his version of events is always so centered around him being hero or victim that it doesn't ring true. It doesn't mean he hasn't suffered. Reading this it's obvious the poor guy suffered. But there's such rage in this book, so many red flags... The way he talks about his years in the army, the detachement about killing... Also there's a very shocking passage where he compares the press to radicalized extremists and terrorists that I found just in poor taste and it honestly disturbed me. I don't doubt he feels that way but I still think it was poor taste. Let's not go over the obviously never resolved oedipus complex (that scene with the frostbite will forever stick in my mind thanks) that clearly still hasn't been addressed... Honestly, it's just... chilling. I came out of this hoping he gets the help he needs (and that he obviously won't find in weeds or mediums). It's his truth, I guess, but that doesn't make it the truth. View all my reviews
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do you really like that fictional character? or do they just have the same personality as you but in a cooler world?
#book nerd#i read stuff#i read too much#literature#yes this applies to me#personality types#16 personality types#fictional characters
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don't show him modern technology; it won't end well
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#i'm not sure if ford would really be interested in using the internet much#but i could see him wanting to look something up real quick and ending up reading something so outrageously wrong#that it pisses him off to the point that he gets into an argument about it lol#gravity falls#stan pines#stanley pines#stanford pines#digital art#my stuff#anyway i really don't like how this one turned out#but i don't feel like changing it#bc i already spent way more time on this than i actually wanted to#and i don't wanna look at it any longer
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No one tells you when you get a Big Serious Job™ how many fucking abbreviations you’ll be forced to learn.
#or how many abbreviations that you’ll come across that mean something different from what you’ve always known#I stopped reading a requisition to make this post because I read a sentence that was like#‘something something the COR and the contractor POC’#and I stopped like ‘contractor person of color???’ before remembering Point of Contract#also no one at my job tells you what any of this stuff means. they’re just like Morgan can you take care of this DOA?’#and I gotta sit there like Dead on Arrival??? before figuring out it’s a Delegation of Authority spreadsheet
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If you saw me agreeing with being annoyed about wasted helium in a fictional context and were like "I bet she has some more helium based anger in her life" good news LAPD fucked up a raid on a medical facility they thought was a pot farm and flat out ruined thousands of gallons of the stuff.
#Back in the day the lab I worked in went through the stuff at a hell of a rate#But that was to actually do something at least#It's also fucking humiliating that a SF paper gets to write up our cops being dipshits#I am so fucking mad about both these aspects the wasted helium and that SF gets to laugh at us#I wrote a very very angry email to my city councilor but I do that like twice a week and I don't think he reads them or anything#So I suspect this one will also not move much
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they mean so much to mee
#i need a collection of senshis smiles#hes so cute#dungeon meshi#dungeon meshi spoilers#senshi#chilchuck#marcille#falin#i still have a lot of stuff i saved while reading dont mind me#iru rants
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I recently finished The Titan's Curse and Percy falls for Annabeth so much faster than I remembered. Rescue the literal goddess Artemis? No, #1 priority is to rescue Annabeth. He traveled across the country and defied gods to chase a dream to rescue her. He was ready to get down on his knees and beg her not to become a Hunter of Artemis. The boy is so smitten with her and I love him for it.
#percy jackson#percy jackson and the olympians#percabeth#Titan's Curse#i remembered awkward hugs and teasing but it was so much more serious#my posts#text#i read stuff
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Trying to find something to listen to and the only audiobook that appeals to me right now is Rachel Reids “Game Changer” and it has a 12 week wait
#what to read#I tried one book but I wasn't sure if I wanted to keep reading it and I don't really like the other narrators voice so…#bye bye#I have read game changer ummm 3 or 4 times#still good#the whole series is good#but my boys Shane and Ilya are in the next book#Scott and Kip are soooo cute too#personal#booklr#I read stuff#audiobooks
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Fanfic writers after watching the honda odyssey scene in Deadpool & Wolverine
#i was so happy i knew i will get lots and lots of spicy stuff to read#deadpool & wolverine#deadpool and wolverine#wade x logan#there are so many fanfictions already#Deadpool#wolverine#wade wilson#logan howlett#there are so many fics already#i love you guys so much for this#poolverine#Deadpool 3
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The consequences of power corrupting the mind are far-reaching. It’s not just about being a dictator or having a small army of followers, but rather something much more subtle.
Power can make you believe that you are infallible, which in turn leads to arrogance and an obsession with control over others.
“Is that a serious question? I’m God! I know things.”
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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid My rating: 5 of 5 stars Every time I pick up a book by TJR I'm scared because the hype was such I tell myself it won't live up to it and every bloody time It Blows Me Away. I loved this one. Perhaps even more than the 7 Husbands. And on paper it wasn't for me at all. The 70s aren't my fav period, I'm not entirely into rock and roll and the format of the book had me dubious at first but you know what? I loved it all. Everything. The format is actually brilliant. It reads like the transcript of a documentary and I could SEE it so clearly, like I was watching a documentary on Netflix instead of reading. It worked so beautifully, so flawlessly that when the twist comes toward the end of who the author is I was floored. This book made me cares about those people like they were real people. I had the feeling I was reading about a real band. And I wish desperately that the songs had been recorded because they sounded so freaking good. It's not everyone who can write a book who can also write beautiful songs but TJR did it. The writing was amazing. Simply amazing. The characters were all flawed and beautifully humans in the vein of the 7 Husbands. I loved them, even those who were less interesting like (poor) Eddie. Everything in this book was GOLD. View all my reviews
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One of one. One, alone, one.
#my stuff#transformers#maccadam#orion pax#d 16#d 16 x orion pax#megop#transformers one#megatron#optimus prime#megaop#I spent like an hour today reading poetry and getting mad at dumb stuff SO that's why this exists. Sorry for the lame poetry#I did what I could with the meager words i have#also english is NOT my language and i much MUCH prefer poetry in spanish#anyway I don't draw the tf1 versions of these two cuz it's so hard man#so many details#this took a couple of hours cuz i still refuse to take more than 2 hrs per page... and I'm forbidding myself from using anything but black#ok good night#si está pitero está pitero ya alv
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