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Oh wow! I will try not to envy the weather there, definitely get out and enjoy it for me if you can! We had a slight drop, the previous week, so I did get out to the park almost every night for a walk, but now it's just intolerable out there. So ready for fall to kick in. Dusty will definitely be a joy to have again, but his overgrooming situation has now been resolved it seems, so hopefully they are going be able to get him out at the shelter to meet & greet once they aren't full and he will find a home quick I think.

I definitely struggled not to break this bank overbuying from Sever Stories, they carry so much new and existing work that is really exciting politically.

I think you are completely right, in fact I really need to re-read some Sherlock really. I'm now wondering if Watson just has more of an air of authority, or I was just less credulous when reading a classic.

I can't help but spoil the kitties for their short times with me! They are such a whirlwind of nonsense.

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And wow, I also have a hole-in-the-yard saga! We are getting a geothermal system put in, and our front yard is all torn up while the contractor waits for a part to arrive... I'm glad your holes got taken care of and I hope the September round isn't too bad!

Right?! I'm always delighted when I get to see the numbers and just be reminded of real impact it has.

Oh no! That is a bummer they dug things up without having everything lined up for it, you'd think that would be part of prep before you dig eh? Do you at least know how long the wait is? That's really cool you are getting geothermal, I don't think I know anyone who has it, is it more a cost advantage for you long term or sustainability? I'm guessing more the latter?

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@@ReadBecca I think we only have to wait 1 more week (for a total of 6!). Apparently, they couldn't order the final parts until they knew how deep the wells were going to be, and they weren't able to know that until they actually started drilling?? We got it more for sustainability, though we think we will see a minor cost savings in the long term... we'll see! We're sure we'll at least break even, and that's good enough for us. :)

Pens is definitely in the running, I hadn't thought of bookmarks yet! That could definitely be a good idea, I have them in a sort of tea cup right now that is too flat to really hold as many as I have. Good suggestion.

I don't even know what all they did, but I sure hope the utils that were working are really done! they've marked up the sidewalk in front where they were doing it now so I am nervous there will be more construction 😅

🥰 It always feels like such an accomplishment when that can be done too, I hate just tossing things so much.

Hilariously, that will be in the vlog, I was like "I'm pretty sure I'm just repeating exactly what Deea said about this"

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Mimicking was on my radar to prioritize because of you I'm pretty sure! Under normal circumstances I think I would have absolutely loved the writing, objectively I can see how my thing it was, but silly brain bounced off it hard right now. I am excited for when I've got more space to get to the next one. Pen holder is a fantastic idea! Several pens have perished on me recently, then I've had to go hunt some down, so maybe I need that. I truly laughed when the gas company called about scheduling maint a couple days after, unbelievable.

It is actually amazing what I've been able to repair with a little creative youtube searching, there are sooo many tutorials and walkthroughs out there. Especially if it's already at the point of being replaced it sure can't be broken more by trying at least! 😂 Yay! I've been getting more and more behind on everything lately with other demands on my time, but as a former friend who isn't on booktube anymore always said whether you do them or not, the love is in the tag! So I am happy for the tag whenever I am able to get around to it.

@@ReadBecca No pressure EVER from me. I am way behind on these tags too. I just wanted you to know that you were tagged in case you hadn't been notified. By the way, on the subject of tags, I have been trying to do the tag that you created on how we watch videos for weeks now. I'm sort of embarrassed that I didn't even know that half of the things that you are talking about in that tag existed. Clearly, there is almost no method to my booktube watching. But I didn't want you to think I've forgotten about it. I'm just trying to have something to say! Anyway, back to my admiration! I had my mother's Electrolux vacuum for years, and I finally had to part with it. Had I known you at the time, I would have called on you.

That is such a great perspective, it seems like we all gloss over these things that are small but affect us day to day. I can be terrible about not wanting to buy things or be wasteful, so I often wind up stuck in either not having the mental energy to try repairs/never making time, or just not replacing something because I can work around not having it in some way, that usually makes things harder in life in some way. It's tough to find that balance between giving the internal go ahead to just replace things and not make life harder and putting in the effort to at least try possibilities in between.

@@ReadBecca that is very real!! I also have a hard time striking a balance between being wasteful and trying to be “handy” with fixing things when possible

Exactly my feeling, books are for reading, even the pretty ones! How are we supposed to fully enjoy them if they just sit on the shelf eh? No pressure on doing the tag, the love is in the tag not the doing!

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I feel like Are Prisons? is vastly under read around booktube given it's impact, but everyone who has felt so informed by it, also fit into a niche of people I aspire to be more like in my life... so I need to get to it and chase those aspirations.

I'm looking forward to Techno Capitalism most of these, I think it's top of my nonfiction november list.

Absolutely, I don't shell out for any old beautiful book with hype, but I feel like I lucked out with encountering some favorites all at once. Brings some delight for sure.

It gave me a bit of sticker shock, but such a wonderful item to have that will likely not have something similar again. I'll be sure to pass it to you in my will, I doubt any trustee would have an appreciation for a weird art piece of a short story 😄

Hehe that is definitely very gen-x, distrust of anything and everything for money! Having trusted sources and reviewers is such a big thing for me too. I have tried to find a balance for myself of both using those trusted sources to find things, but also opening myself up once in awhile to some risk trying to also provide that myself here to others where I can hedge a bit on things I think I will like anyway even if they don't live up entirely. Thankfully I've found that has worked out more often than it has not.

Absolutely small presses are publishing so much great and innovative work, it's always great finding new ones. As far as Technocapitalism, that's tricky. I definitely will talk about it when I read it in some capacity, there are lots of past books I've rambled quite a bit around the topic, but because of my work I basically can't directly address anything very directly relevant to my actual job area without it being a risk because I work for a stock exchange and basically everything is considered proprietary knowledge, so I have to avoid a lot of what I am most specialized in.

They have been the absolute sweetest little houseguests! 🐈

I had no idea there was a celebrity version, that is so funny. Bargain Hunt is just such a hilariously low stakes show, and no one seems to actually care if they win or profit in any way, completely agree so silly.

I think all of the Bargain Hunt I'd been watching is probably also from years ago, so may be the same era you saw, definitely not up to date. That's probably part of the appeal right now.

That is exactly it, the overly polite brit sensibility is strong on Bargain Hunt. There have been people who get massively in the hole in the end and just sort of wind up like "ah well *chuckle*" it's terribly british. I wish you well in your LeGuin journey! Despite being a massive fan, I think it's a neverending journey to be on, I am always finding new scraps of things she did that are out there I've never even heard of, on top of not even having read all I have on my shelves still!

DNFing was definitely a mental wellbeing choice with that book 🤯 Yay for Wizard of Earthsea, I think you will like the worldbuilding, themes and writing hopefully, but that one the story is by far the weakest. Tombs really picks up in that area, and Tehanu is really fantastic probably my favorite though much slower and more contemplative, old lady protagonist FTW!

Ooh thank you, I think Only Connect was on the quiz channel one time but I had no idea what I was so I didn't click, I'll have to try it if I see it again. I've also not heard of Pointless, but I am glad you've mentioned Osman, I totally forgot there is also loads of House of Games on YT I have not watched, that will be perfect too.

@@ReadBecca Only Connect is about finding the connections between seemingly random sets of clues. If you’ve seen the Connections game on the NYT website, one of the rounds is basically like that. Ooh yes, House of Games is fun. I love the Answer Smash round.

That is hilarious, now want to know if that is a wider student phenomenon. I too watched a fair amount of midday game shows in uni years, here it was things like Price is Right as the big one. I feel there is a correlation of overworked brains in that time to my current state 😂 I also never got into antiques roadshow, I think because at least in the US version, what I saw of it had money grubbing vibes, which sort of lacks the appeal of people being there for a good time, and just feeling like winning something is an extra.

Yikes, yes I can see how that would turn out a lot more garbage in the LFLs. I feel like some people who run their own run into people just taking them all to resell, I can kind of understand the want to put more limits, but eh on the official site it's like you can't stop people from being poo even with those measures so just keep it all free eh. It seems like here that happens once in awhile, but more often people do dump religious and sales junk in them, which is more frustrating to me.

I'm kind of an outlier in that I like Hogfather for haloween more than being for christmas, though the holiday in it is indeed a barely obscured version of christmas. It is one of the darkest of the series. The adaptation is also excellent! The guy who was the man with thistledown hair in the Jonathan Strange adaptation had earlier played a villain in this, and pulled from that role as his inspiration when doing the creepy fae in Strange. Slowly but surely feeling better, thank you!

@@ReadBecca Was it made into a movie or miniseries?

Yes, because of Tiffany Aching's age and the strong coming of age journey as a plot arc, some people think it is YA - though I don't think it has ever been specifically sold under YA publisher/marketing. I tend to think it's pretty solid all ages writing/storytelling though. Wee Free Men has probably the least overlap with other books/subseries in the discworld, so it is a great place to start. It takes place in a very small rural community, and the only crossover character are the witches, somewhat briefly, whose subseries of books starts with Equal Rites. However, all of the discworld books expect the very first two (Colour of Magic/Light Fantastic, which are a single story together) can be picked up on their own for a satisfying story. What you get by reading in order is much more of the character & relationship progression, than needing to read in order to understand. Personally, I fully think the right way to read discworld for a start is just to pick up a book whenever you run into one, in any order 😁

I agree that Little Free Libraries are not transactional. Lately, I have taken more books from Little Free Libraries than I have donated, but that’s only because I donated so many of my books to Little Free Libraries before I moved to a new city.

hehe I think we need a blank numbered last page for checking purposes as a publishing standard 🤣 You should!

...and here we are a couple weeks later, just getting to this, and Elena Knows is still on the shelf. I am excited for it though, excellent to hear your praise for it. I saw she has another book coming/out, so I already need to catch up on her new releases if this one works for me.

I was momentarily confused by repairman, but that is a brilliant autocorrect I'm absolutely sure Terry would have appreciated. I very strongly maintain that the preferred reading order the first time for anyone, rather than all the complex charts and subseries, is to simply pick up whatever book is most readily at hand 😄 I think you will be very charmed by Tiffany whenever you do get to Wee Free Men.