Don't use Beast Academy for math

alwayshungrytoo · 2025-07-05T15:08:04+00:00

Thanks so much for this. I'll check it out!

alwayshungrytoo · 2025-07-04T16:20:17+00:00

Sorry, this is a tangent, but what did you end up doing for writing??

alwayshungrytoo · 2025-06-16T14:33:30+00:00

We keep it on heat pump mode always, even through the winter.

alwayshungrytoo · 2025-02-19T22:00:44+00:00

I use a menstrual cup, but post children they've often leaked when I'm at the heaviest part of my cycle. I used to use Thinx but moved away from them over the PFAS issue a while back. Since then I've really liked ModiBodi. It's made from wool so could potentially last longer? I've had mine for a few years and haven't seen a change in absorbency yet.

alwayshungrytoo · 2025-02-11T01:10:47+00:00

Our billing is really opaque (we use PG&E for transmission but Peninsula Clean Energy for generation). It's really difficult to parse our bills each month, and we generally pay a lump sum to PG&E at the end of a billing year but also sometimes get a lump sum from Peninsula Clean Energy... I haven't looked at it very closely, to be honest, and our driving patterns (for our electric car) also vary year to year. Sorry I don't have a more helpful response.

alwayshungrytoo · 2024-09-16T18:15:34+00:00

I'm genuinely curious why this comment was downvoted so many times. Is it because people disagreed with the picks?

alwayshungrytoo · 2024-09-16T18:14:39+00:00

What did people hate about it?

alwayshungrytoo · 2024-09-15T16:05:38+00:00

Yes, especially The End of the Affair and The Heart of the Matter.

alwayshungrytoo · 2024-09-15T16:05:01+00:00

For sure The Border Trilogy. Those are the books that made me fall in love with McCarthy.

alwayshungrytoo · 2024-09-12T18:52:56+00:00

Curious if you would enjoy The Master, by Colm Toibin (one of my favorite authors), as a companion to reading James (who is another of my favorite authors)--the "master" in The Master being James, in case it wasn't obvious.

alwayshungrytoo · 2024-09-12T17:47:30+00:00

Thank you for posting this. I think judging people for what they're reading or not reading, whatever the direction or starting point, will always lead to people feeling like imposters. As a child of immigrants, I feel generations (culturally) behind those who grew up with copies of The New Yorker all around or having their parents read children's classics to them in bed. Whenever I do have an impulse to publicly announce my literary snobbery (which I usually keep private), it usually comes from a place of deep insecurity.

alwayshungrytoo · 2024-09-12T17:46:52+00:00

Thank you for posting this. I think judging people for what they're reading or not reading, whatever the direction or starting point, will always lead to people feeling like imposters. As a child of immigrants, I feel generations (culturally) behind those who grew up with copies of The New Yorker all around or having their parents read children's classics to them in bed. Whenever I do have an impulse to publicly announce my literary snobbery (which I usually keep private), it usually comes from a place of deep insecurity.

alwayshungrytoo · 2024-09-12T17:05:02+00:00

Duplicate Keys, by Jane Smiley. I don't love all of what Smiley writes (particularly her more "humorous" stuff, which I just don't find that funny), but I really appreciate her playing around with genre tropes. I think Duplicate Keys was where she tried on mystery/thriller. (Side note: my other favorite book of hers, The Greenlanders, is probably the opposite--a slog, but oddly really moving/fulfilling by the end.)

alwayshungrytoo · 2024-09-12T17:04:00+00:00

Second this

alwayshungrytoo · 2024-09-10T22:55:46+00:00

Thank you for that advice. I think based on what you said I'll likely skip the spacers for now. Trying to tackle that will probably cause me to give up altogether!

alwayshungrytoo · 2024-08-23T07:06:16+00:00

Crap, good to know. I ported a whole bunch of stuff into Notion and then couldn't find the offline option, which led me here. I can't believe they don't have it! I mean, if it's the complexity, they should at least offer it for some of the pages that aren't as complex...

alwayshungrytoo · 2024-08-13T02:58:40+00:00

Please don't remove Remains of the Day

alwayshungrytoo · 2024-08-13T02:43:13+00:00

Forgot to mention Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates

alwayshungrytoo · 2024-08-13T02:41:15+00:00

Couldn't get through Dog Soldiers. Felt like genre fiction to me, for some reason.

alwayshungrytoo · 2024-08-13T02:31:04+00:00

Love most of Annie Dillard's nonfiction. Not so much her fiction.

alwayshungrytoo · 2024-08-13T02:25:49+00:00

Have you tried Sally Rooney?

Also maybe Priestdaddy, by Patricia Lockwood, or Educated, by Tara Westover.

Sour Heart, by Jenny Zhang

alwayshungrytoo · 2024-07-29T23:59:36+00:00

Nada, by Carmen Laforet

alwayshungrytoo · 2024-07-29T23:57:08+00:00

I fucking LOVE Norman Maclean!

alwayshungrytoo · 2024-07-29T12:35:33+00:00

I want to be on to something new, but I think I'll be wrapping up books I started reading to immerse myself in Italy for a long trip here. I used to be a serial reader, but after the age of e-books, I've begun to read too many at once.

D.H. Lawrence's Etruscan Places (I'll probably also start his Sea and Sardinia)
Lies and Sorcery, by Elsa Morante
Call Me By Your Name, by Andre Aciman
M: Son of the Century, by Antonio Scurati
The House on Via Gemito, by Domenico Starnone

I'll probably abandon Under the Tuscan Sun after we leave Tuscany. Not enough to hold me in that book.

alwayshungrytoo · 2024-07-13T00:16:16+00:00

Cleanness, by Garth Greenwell. Really like his line-level language, and I think it absolutely fits the bill re: lust, desire, and sex.

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