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Wednesday Reading Meme
Dec. 14th, 2016 08:03 amWhat I Just Finished Reading
Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, which I nearly gave up on twice because November was not a great month for reading a harrowing book about wartime, death, dark humor and hopeless moral quandaries, but I persevered and I’m glad I did. It’s well-written and thought-provoking (and emotion-provoking) book, and worth reading.
Also, now that I’ve read it I never have to read it again. Also a good feeling.
What I’m Reading Now
I’m allllllmost done with Pamela Dean’s The Whim of the Dragon, the final book in the Secret Country trilogy. I really wanted to finish it last night, but there is only so much Pamela Dean I can read at once before my brain becomes saturated and ceases to take in any more information, so I didn’t. But maybe today!
I intend to do a longer post about the trilogy once I’m done reading. Has anyone else read these books?
I’m also reading a couple of books from Netgalley. One is about Canadian cuisine, about which more anon, although I wish to note right now that doughnuts are at least as American as they are Canadian, I am just saying, they are so American that we sometimes use them as hamburger buns like the culinary monsters that we are.
The other one is a book about DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy), which I picked up because one of my friends has been thinking about trying it out. I wanted to be supportive and also I wanted to know the difference between DBT and CBT, because they seemed (from reading the Wikipedia page) pretty similar except that it’s a hell of a lot harder to find a DBT practitioner.
I’m halfway through the book, and philosophically they do seem pretty similar. My impression is that the main difference is that the difference is that DBT is a more back-to-the-basics version of CBT - that it assumes a lower starting level of emotional skills. It’s like CBT is an emotional high school equivalency degree, whereas DBT is like, “Okay, we’ll go back to the alphabet if that’s what you need.”
What I Plan to Read Next
Pam Munoz Ryan’s Echo, which is the last of the 2016 Newbery Honor books, and which will I think conclude all of the reading that I planned to get done this year. Possibly I set myself a few too many reading goals this year? But then I don’t regret any of them, so maybe not.
Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, which I nearly gave up on twice because November was not a great month for reading a harrowing book about wartime, death, dark humor and hopeless moral quandaries, but I persevered and I’m glad I did. It’s well-written and thought-provoking (and emotion-provoking) book, and worth reading.
Also, now that I’ve read it I never have to read it again. Also a good feeling.
What I’m Reading Now
I’m allllllmost done with Pamela Dean’s The Whim of the Dragon, the final book in the Secret Country trilogy. I really wanted to finish it last night, but there is only so much Pamela Dean I can read at once before my brain becomes saturated and ceases to take in any more information, so I didn’t. But maybe today!
I intend to do a longer post about the trilogy once I’m done reading. Has anyone else read these books?
I’m also reading a couple of books from Netgalley. One is about Canadian cuisine, about which more anon, although I wish to note right now that doughnuts are at least as American as they are Canadian, I am just saying, they are so American that we sometimes use them as hamburger buns like the culinary monsters that we are.
The other one is a book about DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy), which I picked up because one of my friends has been thinking about trying it out. I wanted to be supportive and also I wanted to know the difference between DBT and CBT, because they seemed (from reading the Wikipedia page) pretty similar except that it’s a hell of a lot harder to find a DBT practitioner.
I’m halfway through the book, and philosophically they do seem pretty similar. My impression is that the main difference is that the difference is that DBT is a more back-to-the-basics version of CBT - that it assumes a lower starting level of emotional skills. It’s like CBT is an emotional high school equivalency degree, whereas DBT is like, “Okay, we’ll go back to the alphabet if that’s what you need.”
What I Plan to Read Next
Pam Munoz Ryan’s Echo, which is the last of the 2016 Newbery Honor books, and which will I think conclude all of the reading that I planned to get done this year. Possibly I set myself a few too many reading goals this year? But then I don’t regret any of them, so maybe not.
