I am finding reading to be a bit difficult so I have been binge watching booktubers. I have a naive hope that if I keep listening to male booktubers talk in calming or nerdish ways about books that it could do something in my brain to make me feel not so very afraid of men. But I don't know. The cortisol running through me sees danger everywhere. But I think it gives me little moments of peace. So thank you for the peace.
Thank you for saying that. I'm glad that it helped you and I'm sorry that people have treated you badly. I'm pleased to see that you've made a Chekhov video of your own and I hope you'll keep it up because you have some interesting things to say.
Sorry to hear about Louise's cornea situation. I hope she's better soon. I love those New York Review books. Brodart therapy--now that is something I could get into. Haven't started The Cherry Orchard yet. My week has been really off. Hopefully, I'll get to it tomorrow. I did like The Seagull. Enjoyed this chatty video, James. Take care....
"Regrettable..." Well & drily said. I have been busy developing OCD behaviors of late. The opposite of Brodartin': removing old Brodart from my ex-library books. Removing labels can take up quite a bit of time especially when they've been there for a few decades.. Arranging & rearranging my books every few hours seems to be self-soothing. It's all so much cheaper & better for you than heroin.
Thanks for watching. I went through a period of removing covers from used books that I aquired, even if they weren't ex=library. Now I've swung the other way and I'm re-covering those books. I guess that means I'm "in recovery"...but at least not from heroin.
😂Brodartin’! It’s really something I should do. Like you say, therapeutic. The Witches sounds great. I started reading The Devil in the Shape of a Woman by Carol Karlsen and it was quite academic in flavour and dry. It was too bad because I am very interested in the topic of witchcraft and the witch trials. Will have to give the Schiff a try. Poor Louise! 🐕🦺
I read that Karlsen book when I was in college and it took a fascinating chapter of history and turned it into a series of real-estate and probate disputes. zzzzz. I know some people really like it, and I did learn a lot, but it was not a page turner. The Schiff is a more readable account. Louise is recovering well--thanks for watching.
Yay for Doc Watson! He was right there in the mix when I was listening to lots of Leo Kottke and John Fahey in my 20s. As for reading . . . Chekhov, of course. Also meandering my way through The Journals of John Cheever. Finding him to be a sympathetic sort who at least makes an effort to be self-aware, warts and all. Unlike that crankypants Saul Bellow, whose letters I read last year. Boy, could that man hold a grudge.
Doc Watson's great. I've been listening to a live album of his on S--tify. "Doc Watson on Stage" which really captures his charisma. Love John Cheever's stories, but I've never read the journals.
Poor Louise and her cone of shame - hope she heals well. I am still traumatized from the last time one of my cats wore a cone (not fun) You are not the only one feeling down as a result of the election
Hi. Louise is out of the cone now and back to her usual level of activity, not that the cone ever slowed her down much. Just cramped her style, you know?
I am finding reading to be a bit difficult so I have been binge watching booktubers. I have a naive hope that if I keep listening to male booktubers talk in calming or nerdish ways about books that it could do something in my brain to make me feel not so very afraid of men. But I don't know. The cortisol running through me sees danger everywhere. But I think it gives me little moments of peace. So thank you for the peace.
Thank you for saying that. I'm glad that it helped you and I'm sorry that people have treated you badly. I'm pleased to see that you've made a Chekhov video of your own and I hope you'll keep it up because you have some interesting things to say.
Sorry to hear about Louise's cornea situation. I hope she's better soon. I love those New York Review books. Brodart therapy--now that is something I could get into. Haven't started The Cherry Orchard yet. My week has been really off. Hopefully, I'll get to it tomorrow. I did like The Seagull. Enjoyed this chatty video, James. Take care....
Been a rough week for a lot of us. Louise is doing good and it's her last cone day today (Sunday).
@ glad Louise is doing better. I just finished The Cherry Orchard. Going to watch it tonight, I think.
"Regrettable..." Well & drily said. I have been busy developing OCD behaviors of late. The opposite of Brodartin': removing old Brodart from my ex-library books. Removing labels can take up quite a bit of time especially when they've been there for a few decades.. Arranging & rearranging my books every few hours seems to be self-soothing. It's all so much cheaper & better for you than heroin.
Thanks for watching. I went through a period of removing covers from used books that I aquired, even if they weren't ex=library. Now I've swung the other way and I'm re-covering those books. I guess that means I'm "in recovery"...but at least not from heroin.
😂Brodartin’! It’s really something I should do. Like you say, therapeutic. The Witches sounds great. I started reading The Devil in the Shape of a Woman by Carol Karlsen and it was quite academic in flavour and dry. It was too bad because I am very interested in the topic of witchcraft and the witch trials. Will have to give the Schiff a try. Poor Louise! 🐕🦺
I read that Karlsen book when I was in college and it took a fascinating chapter of history and turned it into a series of real-estate and probate disputes. zzzzz. I know some people really like it, and I did learn a lot, but it was not a page turner. The Schiff is a more readable account. Louise is recovering well--thanks for watching.
Watching Steve Donaghue, am realizing I won't ever smile again either.
Bad times. I've been feeling the despair from Steve too.
Yay for Doc Watson! He was right there in the mix when I was listening to lots of Leo Kottke and John Fahey in my 20s. As for reading . . . Chekhov, of course. Also meandering my way through The Journals of John Cheever. Finding him to be a sympathetic sort who at least makes an effort to be self-aware, warts and all. Unlike that crankypants Saul Bellow, whose letters I read last year. Boy, could that man hold a grudge.
Doc Watson's great. I've been listening to a live album of his on S--tify. "Doc Watson on Stage" which really captures his charisma. Love John Cheever's stories, but I've never read the journals.
Poor Louise and her cone of shame - hope she heals well. I am still traumatized from the last time one of my cats wore a cone (not fun) You are not the only one feeling down as a result of the election
Hi. Louise is out of the cone now and back to her usual level of activity, not that the cone ever slowed her down much. Just cramped her style, you know?