At 138 pages, this overview of Project 2025 is the Cliffs Notes bare bones version. If you‘re like me and tried to read The Mandate for Leadership‘s 992 pages of policy poop and gave up because the language made you want to 🤮 repeatedly, then this book for you. Freaking public service on the part of Graham, one of those investigative journalists at the “failing” Atlantic.

Part 2 gives subsections on all of the above issues. Graham focuses on reporting what Project 2025 says it will do, but he blends in interviews and other sources to give even more context about how long a certain play has been in the works or to show disagreement among the policy makers or to clarify what the BS happy talk language really means.

Part 1 “The Ways and Means” is 29 pages. Gives historical context for policy blueprints like Project 2025, and some background on key authors. Then it details how the executive branch can grab power through multiple methods.

Fun story where watching movie first led me to this book. In the movie, Frank‘s cons seemed to work because of his charm & luck. The book details his research, lots of research to make his cons work. Frank loved the ladies so some readers may find his sexist word choices & attitudes objectionable.The audiobook version I have does not have an epilogue. It just ends abruptly😮‍💨 I really wanted details on his career after his cons. ⬇️

Loved Jane‘s YouTube channel so much I had to buy this one. The photos are gorgeous and the food I‘ve prepared has been yummy. I appreciate how this book shares many individual recipes (hummus, sauces, dressings, pickled veggies) that I can combine in whatever way I like. They give several recipes for Build Your Own Bowl, but I‘m always modifying those because I have leftover veggies to mix in. I‘m looking at you 🥕and celery! ⬇️

Sequel to The Pillars of the Earth at 1,261 pages according to The Story Graph. Thought the winner would be The Stand, but that‘s 1,232 pages.

#SundayFunday @BookmarkTavern

Imagine the daily awful you expect from 🤬uckerberg. This book chronicles that and a bit worse. Who didn‘t think Sandberg was a liar liar 👖🔥 with her fairy tale 💩of a book, but I wouldn‘t have pegged her as a sexual predator. While some readers point out how SWW doesn‘t truly grapple with her complicity, I‘m okay with her saving that for her own therapy sessions because we need more insiders spilling on this greedy & exploitative juggernaut.

Listened to 19% of this one. Just do not care to hear a story about any kind of “influencer” doing anything. Just an increasing amount of vapid people doing dumb shit.

I‘ve never read Lisa Unger, so if you‘re a big fan, please drop me some of your top recommendations. I‘d still like to give her a try.

📚👓 This just in… another book for my “Prevent Democracy Dying” shelf. Just 138 pages. Reading next.

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1. 😂🤣 Sitting up during the day. I‘m less likely to fall asleep if I‘m in my library lounge chair. But I can if I‘m sitting for too long. At night I can only read on my side if I‘m using my Kobo.

@TheSpineView
2. I had a bunch of library holds come in and I‘m bailing on most. More of a wrong book at this time, I think. So I‘m about to start the tagged book🤞🏼

While this is a sad statement about any workplace, I laughed when I read it because my immediate thought was, “yeah, much like Facebook itself.”

“how things have been going” refers to the sexual harassment and toxic workplace environment that many feel at Facebook. There was even a secret group there. The Feminist Fight Club. In the FFC‘s effort to produce change, these disgusting tech bros would get in the way. If these men were not sexually harassing others, they were turning a blind eye. Collaborators are just as vile as perpetrators.

I get that this whole book is the author‘s mea culpa. I don‘t understand why she feels this need to hire someone for her role before she leaves FB. Find another job. Her husband doesn‘t sound like he likes San Francisco, so being black balled by tech bros shouldn‘t be an issue. And who would want to work for these disgusting excuses of humans anyway? Just find another job and leave.

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I may need to check out Lean In from my library to truly appreciate how vile a person Sandberg is. Another anecdote has Sheryl insisting the author join her in bed on the private jet back from Davos. Apparently, that‘s a thing with Sheryl and her female employees…treating them like dolls. WTAF?

Here‘s just the beginning. They play Cataan next. Mark was poised to win, but Sarah beats him again. When he gets pissed, Sarah goes through all the strategic moves he could have taken to win the game and then broadens the context to how Mark‘s “winner takes all” attitude creates massive issues at Facebook. No wonder this asshat didn‘t want this book published. Now I want more. Who else who‘s witnessed this crap will be brave enough to speak up?

Observations the day after Trump won in 2016. And there‘s so many more that make me 🤮

Author comparing Zuckerberg 5 years earlier with no opinions and the priority of signing up more users to the 2016 Zuckerberg who‘s more concerned about writing a good FB post about his employee jailed in Brazil than calling government officials in Brazil to exert some influence in securing that employee‘s release. What an absolute POS.

April #WrapUp😮‍💨 I‘ve been reading less and less as the year goes on. Distracted, but also finding other comfort activities that require less brain work. I have been logging my daily pages read to try to read every day and I do love the Story Graph‘s line graph.

As a 🇨🇦PR, I‘m thrilled with how Canadians voted. Still some close ridings, so Carney might squeak by with a majority government. The chef‘s kiss is that Carleton ON voters rejected Pierre Pollievre, the Maple MAGA candidate, and are sending a Liberal to Parliament.👩🏻‍🍳💋

Poor Mark🤮

🤞🏼for any dish on his Hawaii compound. Really wish someone would do a deep dive on the crap he‘s pulled there. And I‘m talking book or documentary. Given how much land he‘s got, I‘d prefer drone shots for max impact on the rest of us peasants.

Stopped at 10%. Usually I love Scalzi, but i could not get into this story. Normally I fly through his pages, but I was creeping along with this one. Like reading just a few pages each sitting.

I wasn‘t looking forward to continuing, and even worse, I started dreading picking up my Kobo. That‘s when I knew to #DNF. Maybe I‘ll try again someday.

How cute is this? Voting is underway for this Lego Ideas submission. If you visit link below, be sure to look at all photos bc creator included inside scenes too❤️

If you‘d like to see this creation become a buyable set, you need to vote. You need a Lego account. I have one. Lego has great settings to unsubscribe from all emails/notifications so they‘re not at all annoying.

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/f634ad54-5431-460a-95a2-413b8dbdf716

The “Mteam” (M for management because everything seems to be a shortcut with tech bros) allow Mark to win Settlers of Cataan.

When author asks him if he wants to win this way, his response, “I‘m not winning that way.”

Author adds, “He genuinely doesn‘t see it. Seems perplexed by my outburst.”

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Quote is from the Prologue, which sets the tone nicely.

On page 70 as I sit down this morning for more. This book already reaffirms my decision to delete FB and Instagram along with a slew of other social media.

Haymitch‘s backstory gripped me just as hard as when I read Katniss exclaim, “I volunteer as Tribute.” Loved stepping into Panem again. Seeing characters in earlier years and knowing where they end up was bittersweet. Quite a satisfying emotional rollercoaster. If Collins has more of these kinds of backstories in her pocket, I‘m here for them!

The witchcraft wasn‘t nearly as horrific as the way these pregnant girls were treated. I was getting 🤬 mad a few times listening to how they were dismissed, condescended to, preyed upon, and abused. Solid audiobook narrator. Some of the spell chanting got intense, but I liked listening to the performance. Much more atmospheric than me skimming over or past those parts if I read them on the page.

1. Yes. I‘ve always been a lover of books and a reader. I don‘t read as fast as I‘d like. With lots of interests, my days also run away from me, and I have to be purposeful with when I read.

2. Griz from the tagged book. May not have had great access to books in that post-apocalyptic world, but Griz read everything they did have or could find.

@TheSpineView And thanks for the tag @Sace

The gangs back together for another clean up job that has them trotting all over the globe. Some fantastic flashbacks that give even more backstory for the 4 MCs. I wasn‘t laughing out loud with this one as much as I did with the original, but I still thoroughly enjoyed reading every one of their escapades. Seriously wouldn‘t mind reading a third installment.

Loved how the book started. Intriguing premise. Once author Grady gets to the island, though, the plot introduces these wonky details that descend into a giant convoluted hot mess. Didn‘t really care for any character except the dog Columbo, who thankfully remained unharmed even though Grady really needed to leash him or watch out for him in several precarious situations. Audiobook performance was good.

Meh. Plot seemed slow. And stretched. Gives off too much “the world revolves around Kay” vibes. And then the character wonders why some people despise her.

Plus the audiobook narrator was not great. She did fine with the voice of Kay, but Lucy sounded like Eyore and I don‘t know what accent she thought she was afflicting Marino with, but it sure wasn‘t a Jersey one, and that‘s a critique from someone who grew up in Jersey.

☘️💚 Lizzie wishes everyone a belated Happy St. Patrick‘s Day. She was very busy yesterday on her 8th birthday kicking her mommy back into gear. I‘ve been in a funk for a week-ish. Probably watching too much news. I‘m resetting, though, and making sure Lizzie got some agility practice fun on her special day definitely helped.

Photo Cred goes to April, our fabulous Fear-Free Certified Groomer

#ranttime 🤬 but Tim Barker‘s response is priceless!

Husband interrupted my quiet reading time this morning to share this story of dog abuser Kristi Noem visiting this unique library that sits on the Quebec-VT border. What the actual F🤬? I can‘t find any video online, probably because library patrons/employees don‘t default to cell phone recording. I‘m holding out hope that there‘s maybe security video since the library does sit on border🤞🏼

I love these graphics from TSG. I may try to log daily reading progress for March. The hard part will be remembering 😂

📚 My March list for #ReadYourEbooks and #ReadYourKobo

@CBee

Read 3 of my #ReadYourEbooks picks for February. Even if my Ms. Marvel book slot for March isn‘t selected, I suspect I‘ll be continuing with her journey.

@CBee

Favorite book in this series so far. Some emotional punches in this 6th installment that are actually pretty serious in terms of emotional depth, but then slugs start seeping out of Carl, so right back to the humor I‘ve come to love. Will be interesting to see how Dinniman manages the funny versus the serious as the human crawlers continue to dwindle. Carl keeps repeating, “You will not break me” so I think things may get emotionally real.

Covers many years in 99 pages. Lots of typos, though, which was distracting and annoying. Served its purpose to give me a bird‘s eye overview of Canadian history. Definitely piqued my curiosity about certain events and people for future reading.

Keeping some picks for older prompts from some Reading Challenges on my #bookspinbingo list for March. As an emotional reader, who knows what I‘ll end up choosing😂

@TheAromaofBooks

Loved Ms. Marvel, issues 1-5

I think editor Sana Ananat wrote it best when describing this comic and its readers:

“–it was clear that you guys got it. By now you should have realized that this book isn‘t a marketing ploy, nor does it come with political agendas. It‘s just a story about a young girl maneuvering her way to adulthood, who also happens to reflect the changing face of America.”

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Might get that feeling? That the rich exploit their employees?

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I wish more companies were like Dr. Bronner‘s. They implement a salary cap. The highest paid employee‘s salary is limited to 5x that of the lowest paid employee. Imagine if all companies adopted this model. What a difference that would make in everyone‘s quality of life.

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Authors list several characteristics of millionaires. I laughed when I read this one. The good old days of pension plans. Even when I was teaching and money was deducted from my paycheck for state pension, I never relied on them managing that money well.

Meh. Most recent research was from mid-90s to early 2000s, so examples are outdated. In 2025 the authors & the millionaires come across to this Gen Xer as out-of-touch Boomers. Basic concept is live below your means. Stealth wealth. Lots of pages on car buying habits and how to raise kids to become wealthy w/o relying on cash infusions from parents. Nothing really new here. Some of the anecdotes were amusing. #ReadYourEbooks

I just followed Reading Faerie‘s instructions on how to use Calibre + DeDRM plugin to strip my Kindle books of Amazon‘s proprietary DRM & convert them to KePubs, but you can choose other formats too. She even explains how to set the KePub up so your Kobo will give you their cool reading stats. Pretty easy to follow instructions:

https://youtu.be/YcBirwJJycg?si=NALGjwVkYs58y9ws

Slow burn that picks up the plotting pace about 1/2way through. After climate change, and disease, wipe out The World as it Was, Nonie and her family must survive in the World as it Is. A superstorm hits, so the characters must leave behind the shelter they knew, for higher ground and the chance at living on a farm. The journey is dark, but not as hellish as The Road. Thoughtful commentary throughout on how we build community.

#ReadYourKindle #ReadYourKobo #ReadYourEbooks folks might be interested in this development:

https://www.theverge.com/news/612898/amazon-removing-kindle-book-download-transf...

After switching to Kobo, I‘ve been researching if I could switch my Kindle books to Kobo. Can be done by stripping the DRM w/ Calibre, but 1st step is downloading your Kindle books to your desktop. Hence Amazon cracking down on the ability to download books😡

#MentalHealthMonday a bit late🫣 @Kerrbearlib

1. Overwhelmed with projects of my own making🙄
2. Eating right, working out, Calm app, news diet, focusing on things I can control/improve in my life
3. Asking Littens for book recommendations for specific mental health topics

If you‘re reading, I hope you‘re doing well. Consider yourself tagged😊 even though it‘s Tuesday. Just do the time warp again!

The characters in this book take refuge from floods/tidal waves in their former place of employment, the American Museum of Natural History. One recalls the curators from Leningrad who hid in the Hermitage during WWII to preserve the art. Staying hidden in the museum doesn‘t seem like a long-term strategy in this story, though😬

New release library hold is my next read on my Kobo. Hearing lots of mixed reviews on this one, so 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼