What Are You Doing?

Check out the "what are you reading now" thread. That's where I get my recommendations most of the time. But really, I have two or three boxes of unread books to go through before I get more. Good thing I just ordered four new books to add to the collection!

 

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (literature)

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (dark literature)

Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks (multilayered literary SF. Iain Banks and Iain M. Banks were the same person, the "M." was used to denote his SF books while the "non-M" are his literary works)

Moby Dick by Herman Melville (if you have to ask...)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (twisted drug literature)

Sparrow by Maria Doria Russell (SF, but with an odd religious twist)

The City and the City by China Mieville (a crime thriller with a heavy dose of the New Weird)

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (SF "biopunk" dealing with a world post-massive sea-level rise)

Hell in a Very Small Place by Bernard Fall (military history of the fall of Dien Bien Phu and the French loss of Indochina/Vietnam)

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (speculative literary fiction about life in a post-viral apocalypse where the surviving humans amount to "a rounding error". A literary book though, no warriors of the wasteland)

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch (a history of the Rwandan Genocide)

Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes (Adolf Hitler awakes in 201X Berlin with a terrible headache. Translated from German, I believe)

What is the What as told to Dave Eggers (a firsthand account of the first Sudanese genocide)

Well, there's thirteen from me for your list of ten. Happy reading!

 

Good stuff - Hunter S. Thonpson has been on my to read as well. Will add!

 

I'm reading the newspaper and listening to This Mortal Coil. It seems like a good soundtrack for this point in history.

 

After not having a game console for years, I bought a PS4 last year. Boy, am I glad I have that thing right now!

Just finished Uncharted 4... wow!

 

I went to open another tab for Youtube and my brain defaulted to here, so I have two tabs open for WF. I am doing excellent.

 

I'm on my tablet a lot, so when I wake up I generally go to my alerts and open all the new postings in separate tabs then work my way through them chronologically. Sometimes I'll have 12-15 WF tabs open at a time.

 

Staring. The nightly popcorn ceiling is my oldest friend. Neighbour is busy working out his now daily habit of digital tits an ass. Unfortunately, the walls are thin and my plastic fan is currently resting. He really should lower that racket.

Still, at least the ceiling is here. Nothing beats the chaos of masks, gloves and toilet paper fist fights like an old, calm friend.

Need to turn on the fan though.

 

This made me ugly laugh into my pillow because it's late and I have a loud fuckin mouth.

 

Just ordered ten books. Probably will have enough to read for the coming months, LOL.

 

What did you choose?

 

Behave, Robert Sapolsky
Confessions of a Mask, Yukio Mishima
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murikami
The Outsider, Albert Camus
The Plague, Albert Camus
The Fall, Albert Camus
The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
For Whom the Bells Toll, Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson

 

I'm about to scan what is left of my writing. It might take me the whole day.
Will try to pick a decent soundtrack.

 

Same on the books I need to get through.

Sitting here in my pjs still off work until Tuesday. Actually did a surprising amount of adulting yesterday, we`ll see what trends follow over to today.

 

Ugly sobbing over a damn tv show. They almost saved a wrongly convicted scapegoat for the Nazis, but because of corruption, she was executed in front of the person trying to save her.

I need to lie down more than I already am. I'm so fucking bummed.

But god damn I love this show.

 

Which show? Hunters?

 

working on my story and trying not to throw my computer because stupid and irrelevant autocorrect/autosuggestions!

 

Switch them off?

 

Babylon Berlin. It's on Netflix. It's from Germany and it's so incredibly well done. I can't get over how well done it is. I recommended it to the director of operations at work, and then I remembered there's so much fucking happening in it, and a lot of very very very uncomfortable imagery going on. So we'll see if I get called into HR at some point. After the plague, of course.

 

I know, right? Clicking and clicking and clicking.

Never mind that I haven't done a single useful thing all day except change a couple of light bulbs and run to the Aldi before the governor's Stay at Home order went into effect.

Oh, yeah. I also strained the sediment out of my frying oil and fried up a batch of homemade chips.

Otherwise . . .

 

Just finished my online 2020 Census form. Weird. This one wanted you to go into detail about your ethnic origins, but nothing at all about your work, educational level, etc.