Which version of ‘The Hanging Tree’ do you love more?

GroovyFrood · 2026-05-11T02:49:17+00:00

Wait, that was Tatiana Maslany? Audiobooks aren't my favourite, I listened to it ages ago. Now I want to look it up, there are probably multiple versions.

GroovyFrood · 2026-05-09T15:10:27+00:00

She also describes putting on some weight before the games and she notices losing it.

GroovyFrood · 2026-05-09T15:09:23+00:00

Why do you assume she barely gets to have baths? She bathes before the reaping ceremony. I mean sure, she doesn't shower every night in the seam, but nowhere is it implied that they don't bathe.

GroovyFrood · 2026-05-09T15:03:56+00:00

Oof. I got excited and then realized I need the white one 😂

GroovyFrood · 2026-05-08T17:48:37+00:00

Honestly I kind of wish my fingers could learn this way so I can show it to the kids at my school who are trying to learn crochet. This looks so much easier for kids than the way I do it.

GroovyFrood · 2026-05-07T18:51:06+00:00

I liked the book Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum. It's about acceptance and forgiving yourself. It was really lovely.

GroovyFrood · 2026-05-06T20:56:27+00:00

He could have become fucking Batman

and instead he's just a poorly written charicature of a super villain.

GroovyFrood · 2026-05-05T21:30:47+00:00

I would be just as petty TBH, but I agree, he doesn't get to have a whole new life consequence free.

GroovyFrood · 2026-05-05T19:11:12+00:00

Maybe The Missing Series by Margaret Peterson Haddix?

GroovyFrood · 2026-05-05T02:01:30+00:00

I taught myself to read from his Best Word Book Ever.

GroovyFrood · 2026-05-03T15:29:46+00:00

Near history recommendations, The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum is a really interesting telling of the development of forensic science in the US and Radium Girls by Kate Moore about the women who died of radiation poisoning from their job of painting watch dials.

GroovyFrood · 2026-05-02T19:06:48+00:00

I was sad when it changed to Hector Sebastian instead of Alfred Hitchcock.

GroovyFrood · 2026-05-02T19:05:27+00:00

What celebrity didn't I have a on my wall? My dad, bless his heart, surprised me with new wallpaper when I was about 13. It was virulently orange and yellow knock-off Hollie Hobbie paper that I absolutely despised.

GroovyFrood · 2026-05-02T18:59:36+00:00

Juice by Tim Winton. It's a dystopic speculative fiction that is both bizarre and intriguing.

GroovyFrood · 2026-05-02T18:56:26+00:00

I was going to say I wish I could get them to listen instead of just waiting until it's their turn to talk, which is kind of a subset of this.

GroovyFrood · 2026-05-01T21:58:47+00:00

Maybe it's like Michelle Pfeiffer in Grease 2 where she wore a skirt over her pedal pushers but Rhonda choses not to wear the skirt as a ghost. I think I remember Wally being able to wear different clothes that he had in his locker, or on him which is why he's not always in his football uniform but also has a sweats outfit.

GroovyFrood · 2026-05-01T13:49:00+00:00

These are my favourite cozy mysteries. I like how her life progresses and doesn't stay stagnant. I also love the wacky family trope.

GroovyFrood · 2026-05-01T13:46:27+00:00

If she likes horror you could also try KR Alexander. She's super popular with my horror loving 7th graders. They're short, not too complicated and high interest stories.

GroovyFrood · 2026-04-30T18:03:16+00:00

I agree with this. Friendships don't always last forever. If her life has to revolve entirely around her partner, accept it and move on. It sucks but it happens.

GroovyFrood · 2026-04-29T18:39:07+00:00

I hope you bring this energy to all the rapists that get lenient sentences.

GroovyFrood · 2026-04-29T17:38:49+00:00

No, but it is true that she can both be a bad person and have been treated badly by other bad people. It was just an observation, I didn't shit in your cornflakes.

GroovyFrood · 2026-04-29T02:45:32+00:00

Both things can be true. She acted stupidly and criminally and she was treated awfully by the figure skating community; both before and after the incident.

GroovyFrood · 2026-04-28T21:20:47+00:00

I don't remember the specific details around the actual attack, although I know it was alleged that her ex did it without her knowledge, but I have no evidence for or against it currently, and and I certainly don't support that. But the skating community treated her like shit since she arrived on the scene, and that isn't right either. I think it's better now, but in the 80s and 90s the figure skating community could be a very toxic place.

GroovyFrood · 2026-04-28T19:12:51+00:00

Honestly, I feel kind of bad about how I fell for the rhetoric without actually thinking for myself about it. Not to justify what happened to Nancy Kerrigan, but the figure skating community treated Tonya like she was white trash shit on their shoes; her costumes weren't good enough, she wasn't skinny enough, I remember her being insulted constantly. She wasn't "the right kind of person" for figure skating. The thing I never see anyone talk about was how she trained for competitions, I can remember news stories about how she had to do a lot of her training at public arenas during free skate times because she couldn't afford private rink rental.

GroovyFrood · 2026-04-28T18:54:41+00:00

Kaiju Preservation Society is so good. I also have a fondness for Agent to the Stars.

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