#DashingThruDecember #Snowflake
Many snowflakes = snow day 😁
Started this Nov 26. I haven‘t listened to it since. 🤷🏼♀️it‘s not bad, my attention is hard to capture and hold lately in anything and everything.
Life has been life-ing lately and I would rather just zone out to oblivion. Things will change and I‘ll get back to reading.
I colored this picture and wrote this about it.
#haiku #haikuhive
pickI started reading about NDE years ago. I watch documentaries and listen to podcasts about it. Atwater took a deep dive into studying it after having had her own NDE, and has written several books on the subject; her NDE is told in detail in her book ‘Coming Back to Life‘. This new book has got to be one of the best I‘ve ever read on the subject as she goes into a lot of detail about culture, science, metaphysics, and more. Fascinating!
pickStiff will always be my favorite because it was my first Roach. This one was not bad. I sometimes get annoyed that she doesn‘t go more in depth on the particular topics I find the most interesting 🤷🏻♀️. I like my science with a sense of humor.
“I try to suggest not going that far,” Daza-Flores says. He tries to get inside their heads, to see why they‘re asking for this. Is it something their partner wants? He counsels patients against getting implants to please someone else. Because, as he puts it, the surgeries often outlast the relationships. He has had patients who‘ve “changed out their breast implants every time they change boyfriends.”
bailedThis is my second Mary Roach book, and I just don't think she's for me. I almost felt like her writing is overly familiar; like I'm expected to understand her personality and drive and humor right out the gate. Therefore, I never really get to know her, and it is hard to connect to her voice in the book. There also didn't seem to be a purpose to her choices of topics other than her whims or whomever would talk with her, unless that's just the ARC.
Im going to watch Frankenstein on Netflix this weekend. The book is one of my favorites. I very much enjoyed Pans Labyrinth and The Shape of Water.
Here‘s a negative review from a big fan of the book. Who says he changes and leaves out big parts of the story for visuals sake, which is my fear with Del Toro.
https://youtu.be/M75fAaKvHng?si=iUCxt47pw1NUmQMC
panThis book means very well, but a) it actually explains things very badly, despite trying very hard, and b) fails to make a good case for taking DNA into account in trying to create a more equal society.
