@jjchr1
Following mostly accounts of authors, local news, and miscellaneous interests that sometimes come and go. Say hi if we know each other! https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/97858122. https://substack.com/@jjchr1
From what I’ve seen (in much of South Tampa, at least), $1 million covers the purchase and demolition costs of an older home, and maybe site work before spending more million(s) on constructing a McMansion. Insane down there.
I am “purchase Girl Scout cookies from my work colleagues” years old.
This is an eye opener - whether you’re deeply religious, spiritual, questioning, agnostic, or atheist, you might enjoy this dissection of how Christian Nationalists misinterpret scripture to serve themselves and their own interests. #booksky #books
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
Do you have 25 Chicago albums, or more in the six to four range?
Fully support.
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A handful of states are considering legislation that would similarly "lock the clocks" on the standard time. https://www.wfla.com/news/national/what-if-our-clocks-didnt-spring-forward-when-daylight-saving-time-starts/
I have a high tolerance for unpleasant weather, but feeling trapped by this howling cold and lingering “snowcrete” is finally starting to get to me.
Hope we actually get the 40 degree days forecast next week!
#booksky “The Institute,” by Stephen King was excellent. He never lets you forget the hope that exists in each story. I read it over a few months and by doing that, it read like bingeing a season at a time on streaming. (I know this is also streaming, haven’t seen)
www.goodreads.com/book/show/50...
I’m not driving a car again until sometime in February, probably.
He plays the same guy in the sequel.
Definitely good at sniveling, to make his character even more abhorrent.
#booksky Just finished “Future Boy,” by Michael J. Fox and Nelle Fortenberry. If you’re a fan of Back to the Future or Family Ties, you’ll love this play by play of Fox’s experience acting in both! www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
I might go along with this. I don’t think Apple would, but I might!
He plays a great villain. Here’s one I’d like to watch one day: m.imdb.com/title/tt0099...
Happy new year from CDMX!
Actors tended to be more nervous back then. The pressure of 60s Hollywood stardom and all that.
Jk - I agree with the other commenters about the lights.
#booksky A good overview of modern history and the revolutions that have occurred globally over the last 400 years. #perspective
www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
#booksky the ultimate dose of “kafkaesque,” 😏 Seriously though, the seemingly (and sometimes actually) arbitrary things in life that somehow imprison us - especially the things which we can’t control or that seem inaccessible - are a key theme. #relevant, probably.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/91...
I want this hero in my neighborhood.
Melissa becoming major threat to Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic
A painting of cats dancing in a circle
The invention of the internet
#booksky
Two sisters from a small Louisiana town, both desperate to leave. Eventually, they both manage to escape - one shortly returns home after some hard luck and the other, having created a new life for herself, abandons her roots throughout most of her adult life.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/51...
#booksky i enjoyed this: Muna, recently immigrated with her son to Montreal from Lebanon in the 1980s, works for a better life for herself and her son, Omar. Meanwhile she works in sales for a weight loss outfit and has interesting conversations with her clients.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/60...
Tortilla Flat is excellent. It reminded me very much of a late friend who was our “Danny.” And like Danny’s friends from the story, all of us went our separate ways after he died. Sad, but that’s life sometimes. Still, give it a read!
www.goodreads.com/book/show/77...
Mail order form for other Steinbeck novels
#booksky interesting find… I’m about to start Tortilla Flat - I’m reading a Penguin Books copy printed in 1986. There’s a mail order form in the back, expected. Unsurprising. But there are no prices shown, just a reference to sales tax. What am I missing? Lay it on me if it’s obvious!
#booksky this dystopian nightmare takes place in near-present day Ireland. The take away for me was to take nothing for granted. I love some good modern fiction so I’d recommend it. I found it a page turner!
www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...
#booksky I hadn’t read this in decades. An American classic about ordinary folks’ struggles during the Great Depression. Also, it’s on book ban lists, so all the more reason to read it!
www.goodreads.com/book/show/50...
#booksky Quite a risqué novel for its time; I felt like I was reading smut I tell ya! Not really - great story and one key theme, at least in my interpretation: love and happiness don’t always come hand in hand, and finding both at the same time can be difficult!
www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...
#booksky what a harrowing tale of the journey to California from the settled Midwest in 1846! It’s ‘Oregon Trail’ in book form, with horses and covered wagons, as well as sickness and death along the way. This story also made me appreciate modern conveniences!
www.goodreads.com/book/show/39...
#booksky While reading this hasn’t pushed me towards communism, the theory of it is interesting. Side note: the word “Marxist” is frequently used as an insult, but I’m not convinced the people using it actually understand it. For them, this might be worth a read.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/30...