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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- Raeleen reads a new favourite, Ariel has a breakdown about a weird letter collection, and Ariel answers some engagement related questions!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Yola!
06:01 - Raeleen’s New Social Media
13:54 - Powerpoint Party
16:06 - Big Old Storm
21:05 - What Are We Reading?
22:31 - Review: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
39:50 - A Tree Grows In Brookyn
42:55 - The Mail Room
56:12 - Kindle Woes
As a medical tecnologist who has handled blood samples for 40 years, the answer to your blood color question is a complicated one. Blood consists of cells and fluid (plasma). Generally, whole blood (cells and plasma together) from healthy individuals is approximately the same color. The cells are red and the plasma is what we call straw color - clear light yellow. However, the plasma portion can change color in different disease states. Liver disease can cause plasma to be from amber to green depending on disease progression. The plasma of someone with very high cholesterol and triglycerides can appear white as there is literally fat in the plasma. Carbon monoxide poisoning can make the cells very dark as the have absorbed CO instead of oxygen and it is oxygen used along with hemoglobin in the cells to make the red color. (Arterial blood is a brighter red than venous blood because it contains more oxygen.) So there it is - the answer to your question is both yes and no.
Love this!!!! Thanks for your insight.. there’s always a subject matter expert in the crowd haha 🩸💉 🤔
I would love for Raeleen to continue to share her Sabbat events with her friends. I'm practicing some more personal ritual this year, too!
Hi, Irish viewer here: imbolc is the old Irish word for pregnant and in pagan times imbolc was a celebration of new birth in the spring , starting in February as it is when the days start to get longer by a few minutes each week. 💙
I'm also Irish and didn't know this, that's so interesting! Pagan traditions are so fascinating I wish they were talked about more honestly.
@@sarahmcdonnell1755 same. I’m not religious but love our history. Bealtaine is the summer solstice: on may 1st celebrating the beginning of the new season and longer days. Lúnasa: marks the harvest and in august the pagans would mark this as a way to thank the sun moon n stars for reaping them with good crops. Samhain: is the start of November where we lit bonfires (tine cnámh, meaning bones fires as a way to ensure the dead could pass on to the next afterlife) and to celebrate our winter beginning and the start of quieter months. Hallow’een being the night before (oíche Shamhna meaning the eve of Samhain) is to mark the souls of our ancestors going through the veil into the afterlife, by spending a night in our world).
So interesting innit? 😅
Ariel, I’ve kind of fallen into the goal of 100 books this year after you announced it as your goal, but I’ve found having at least 1 book going in all available formats (ebook, audiobook, and physical) to be really helpful. I’ve also gotten very into reading graphic novels from libby on the kindle app on my phone (as a replacement to scrolling instagram, which I also deleted, bc I’m a sheep who just decided to follow along with what y’all are doing this year apparently lol)
Sometimes you just gotta share the book love so that’s what I’m here to do. I just read and enjoyed a new non-fiction title, “Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out” by Shannon Reed. It’s a perfect book for bibliophiles. She makes the case that we should read for PLEASURE above all else. Yes!
Omg Ariel, I’m so sorry about your dog. I hope everything gets better for yours and your dog’s health. 💙 I’ve also spent the last week stressing out about my dog… she probably has a hernia and so she has to rest completely for 30 days, poor thing. I’m just happy that the medication seems to be working and she’s no longer in pain.
It’s interesting how my reading life is aligning with Raeleen’s! Slowly becoming an E-reader girly + reading a short story collection AND adding the collection she recommended to my Kindle!
Raeleens' new haircut is such a slay
Raeleen I am SO EXCITED that you’re already reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn!! It’s my favorite, favorite book ever and I was so glad to see it on your list this year, so it’s extra fun that you’re reading it so early! I was 11 (the same age as Francie at the start) when I first read it and it’s always meant so much to me. I collect editions of it too! Anyway, I’m babbling but I hope you continue to enjoy it!!
I love Libby, it gives you the option of putting the book into your kindle and that is exactly what I do and I love it! Also since it is though the library it saves me so much money.
It’s funny how many times Raeleen mentioned something about herself and reminded me of myself. And yes I have gotten rid of all my physical books before and I only used my e-reader 😂
Just wanted to mention I love when you guys talk off book topic too. I’d love for you two to have a pod just talking about “stuff”
My pets are all quite elderly as well, I feel like it’s very common for your thirties.. best of luck to you and Doug, at least he is living out his retirement in your beautiful plot of land, hope he gets to chase ducks in the spring 🦆
I can’t for the life of me figure out which episode it was, but recently someone said they were looking for a book about aliens and how the knowledge of them affects society and i just started a book last night that fits perfectly in that theme! On Earth As It Is on Television by Emily Jane. I’m really enjoying it so far! The plot (as i understand it) is basically aliens show up then peace out and multiple story lines follow characters as they deal with the knowledge.
I read a tree grows in Brooklyn with my book club last year and liked it quite a bit. I hope you enjoy it too!
Thanks for the info about Caliber! I’m also in that Kindle/Amazon conundrum, but love (much to my surprise) reading on it.
This podcast always makes my Monday dog walks the best of the week 🥰
I highly recommend Bliss Montage by Ling Ma! It’s a short story collection with surreal and magical realism elements. The first story is about a woman living with her 100 ex-boyfriends for example. It was my favourite book of 2023 and I think Raeleen would love it!
Hey! I recently saw a book called “Dear Papa: The Letters of Patrick and Ernest Hemingway.” It’s a collection of letters between Hemingway and his son. I haven’t read it but it looked interesting. And I know what you mean about “84 Charing Cross Road” setting the bar really high for letter collections. It was so good it was hard to believe it was real.
I just found out that there is an audiobook of True Grit performed by Donna Tartt. I’m in and have it on my Libby holds now!
Found and bought a copy of Albatross at the used bookstore near me in Toronto!! haha I don't even know if it's a book I want to read but have heard of it's rarity so often from the podcast that i had to get it!
I too love the Books Unbound branding. So unique and perfect for you guys
Ariel, I hope the best for your dog and that they’re okay. My Pomeranian is turning 10 years old next week! I completely understand that feeling of your pets growing old and waiting for the inevitable but I’m hoping that she’s with me for a long healthy life. She looks great for a senior dog but she has developed a strange cough but don’t we all as we get older? 😂 Don’t worry, the vet says she is healthy!
Raeleen! I recently read Revenge by Yoko Ogawa and highly recommend it! It’s a strange collection of eerie short stories that are beautifully connected.
To get that feeling of 84 Charing cross road I can’t recommend The Delicacy and Strength of Lace enough! It’s the correspondence of two writers, Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright, over just a few years. The whole time you see this beautiful friendship unfolding, but as the reader you know that tragically James Wright dies so theres this timeline propelling you through the letters.
I use Libby with my Kobo and I just need to use the Overdrive feature on my ereader 😊
«Orb in a cube» Rey Mov - incredible story! Orb must be in a cube.
omg Ariel i hope things get easier
One of my favourite book of short stories is " At The Mouth Of The River Of Bees" by Kij Johnson. It came out in 2012 from Small Beer Press.
All of the stories are so completely different, and still they are all so well written.
My picks are Fox Magic, Names for Water, At the Mouth of the River of Bees, Story Kit, Ponies, Spar, and The Man Who Bridged the Mists ( This last is more of a Novella, and a good one! )
All of the stories are so worth reading, and they feel like they were almost written by different authors sometimes...
This book rekindled my interest in short stories, and I have enjoyed so many more since then.
Also, I have Lesser Known Monsters on my TBR, so thank you for the reminder, I am reading that next!
Yola - I like that and will use it. Raeleen - Imbolc sounds interesting -- what are the other 7 that you observe. Think I will give Lesser Known Monster a try. 2023 - began with 3 books that went to the top and stayed there all year - 2024 my best so far is The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl. I think it will take much to dispose Crows. Helene Hanff's books are super. The movie based on 84 Charing Cross Road is great - give it a go. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is very good - I read it so many years ago I was in Jr High [7th or 8th grade] I think it deserves a reread. There is also a good, black and white movie. If you like old B&W movies.
I just read Kaleidoscope by Brian Selznick and I think you would both love it. Ariel I thought of it for you, because it is a short book (about 160 pages) of vignettes about 2-3 pages long. Just like a Kaleidoscope, it is like the stories are jumbled together and each turn will put them in a different order, but they all belong together. It was so good and Selznick's illustrations are lovely. Highly recommend.
Have you read Makers by Cory Doctorow? Just one of my favourite books. It has a character called Death Waites. Utterly brilliant.
Yola - Seeing this after listening to a 4-hour CreepCast reading of an intense horror story was just what I needed to calm down, relax and hear happy stories and book news instead. Now I can stop relating this cardigan that I'm knitting with something scary (or at least the sleeves.)
In school my friends snd i would have a shared google dock that we'd all mess around in instead of doing work or texting
Imbolc always creeps up on me, and i forget to plan anything special to celebrate. Opps. I'll wake up for Spring at Beltane. 😅
Google slides sounds great! Might make something as well with books, movies and board games
I’m a massive fan of Kim Fu’s collection! I’d recommend Nino Cipri’s Homesick or anything by Sarah Pinsker! Both so so good
I loved Bestiary by Kim Fu so this review is perfect, I cannot wait to get my copy now
Curious to see if you will read some graphic novels soon Ariel :)
With varying hydration and iron levels I bet shades of blood do vary.. especially in rare cases like people going through chemo or bone marrow transplants.. I don’t think you sound like a serial killer but maybe that’s cuz I sound like one too 😂
Yola!
Random question: I’m newer to the podcast and I wondered if either of you had read Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman?
Yola!!!!
Not a big deal, but the video podcast through youtube does give me ads. I dont mind at all bc i love supporting you guys through that medium as I love the video element. However I wanted to point it out to make sure you guys knew in case it wasn’t intentional.
I came to the comment section to check up on this. I don't have RUclips premium, but I have also heard that RUclips now runs ads on shows even without monetization turned on. Can anyone confirm? I usually don't skip ads for creators that I really care about, but if Ariel and Raeleen aren't even getting a kickback, there's not much point there. Sounds like I might have to just become a patron. :)
this, i sometimes get a TON of ads on these episodes lol so hopefully they're getting their share!
here is your answer ariel:No, not all blood is colored red The life-giving fluid actually comes in five different colors, depending on what animal you're talking about. The different colors reflect different chemicals in special proteins in the blood called plasma proteins that carry essential nutrients throughout the body.
Herve's letters are beautifully written. Eugene needs to write him back or break up with Herve. Come on, Eugene!!