Wednesday Reading Meme
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osprey_archerWhat 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.
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Date: 2016-12-14 02:34 pm (UTC)There is a new donut place on my way to work that does this! I'd never encountered it before, and the sign outside was misleading -- it just said they had "breakfast sandwiches," but when I went inside to order one, they were like, "It comes on a DONUT sorry that's the only bread we have"
I was hungry and I didn't want to disappoint anyone so I got one anyway IT WAS TERRIBLE but if I were 20 and suffering from a hangover maybe it would have been just the thing HOWEVER I WAS NEITHER.
I've never thought of doughnuts as a particularly Canadian food, but they play such a prominent role in the Emily books that they must be!
Also, I'm still in the middle of The Secret Country, but I have put it on the top of my to-read pile and maybe someday soon I will have read it all. Look forward to your thoughts!
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Date: 2016-12-14 06:56 pm (UTC)Or do they use a plain cake donut? I feel like that would be too crumbly to be proper sandwich bread. Do they use an unglazed yeast donut? But unglazed yeast donuts are an abomination. HOW DO DONUT SANDWICHES WORK?
I think donuts are a particularly British-colonized-North-American food, but surely they're at least as American as they are Canadian. We have whole donut chains! American supermarket bakeries overflow with donuts! We love donuts so much that we have changed their spelling forever from doughnut to donut. Culinary colonization if there ever was one!
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Date: 2016-12-14 11:37 pm (UTC)I can't say for certain whether it was glazed or not, though. It might have been unglazed, but still oily on account of being a doughnut.
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Date: 2016-12-14 07:34 pm (UTC)ETA: What is the DBT book?
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Date: 2016-12-14 07:42 pm (UTC)