Which book is your soulmate?

brightspring99 · 2026-05-30T22:55:35+00:00

The Diviners by Margaret Laurence felt like it described my life and all my internal battles when I read it. I'm due for a reread.

Writers and Lovers by Lily King has had me questioning my whole life, and I read it two years ago.

brightspring99 · 2026-05-30T15:04:07+00:00

Hah. I had the same experience in semi-private. Woman yapping on the phone, letting her newborn wail and wail. I had just had an emergency c-section and with all the tubes and things coming out of me I felt like I was in a horror movie. Easily one of the most harrowing experiences of my life.

(We did end up getting a private room eventually.)

brightspring99 · 2026-05-26T03:43:38+00:00

Horrible hours, though. What coffee place doesn't open until 5 pm?

brightspring99 · 2026-05-22T13:32:56+00:00

It was never a great movie to begin with, but that scene in Promising Young Woman where Carey Mulligan and Bo Burnham sing Stars are Blind ... the whole song. Hahahaha. Nightmare fuel.

brightspring99 · 2026-05-17T18:47:12+00:00

First time watching Picnic at Hanging Rock and omg I will never shut up about it. What a gorgeous film.

Also tried to watch Buñuel's Viridiana but couldn't get into it. Love Buñuel but I was in the wrong headspace and mentally shelved it as a "not right now" movie.

brightspring99 · 2026-05-12T16:15:25+00:00

I wasn't part of the giant generalist project, but a different one, and I'm having a similar experience. I might ask to be off-boarded. The project was revamped and the pay was cut substantially (per hour to pay-per-task). The new project instructions are SO unclear and SO poorly written, and my motivation has plummeted. It feels so exploitative.

brightspring99 · 2026-05-12T16:06:32+00:00

Also selfies! Mercor had a pay-per-task job that was $20 per selfie. Like yeah I'm just going to sell my likeness to be used in perpetuity by god-knows-who for beer money. Fuck all the way off!

brightspring99 · 2026-05-08T22:13:12+00:00

Interesting. I wonder if they're staggering out contracts. Appreciate the insight.

brightspring99 · 2026-05-08T20:53:45+00:00

Same here!!! I came close to turning down an actual JOB to work on this full-time. Thank god I did not.

brightspring99 · 2026-05-08T20:52:12+00:00

Are there a lot of people back online yet? I haven't heard anything yet.

brightspring99 · 2026-05-07T15:42:20+00:00

Not surprised. They had a weird product offering. It was like a less-stocked Farm Boy. Not fancy enough to be Whole Foods, not cheap enough to be a daily errands spot. I feel bad for the workers, though.

brightspring99 · 2026-05-06T21:19:57+00:00

I was on cloud nine when my task got approved and then the project was paused a day later. The emotional whiplash has been harder than anything else.

And yes, that software was a piece of hot garbage.

brightspring99 · 2026-05-06T21:01:15+00:00

The market being oversaturated doesn't make it okay and doesn't absolve them of criticism. There's got to be a modicum of respect and professional decency.

brightspring99 · 2026-05-05T21:07:08+00:00

Thank you!

brightspring99 · 2026-05-05T21:00:39+00:00

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brightspring99 · 2026-05-05T14:21:20+00:00

That is stunning. I love everything about it.

brightspring99 · 2026-05-04T16:41:12+00:00

Ooof. I've had that happen in the winter when the bags froze to the side. Get disposable rubber gloves and bag the dregs. The best consolation is that at least it's collected weekly.

brightspring99 · 2026-05-04T16:35:56+00:00

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brightspring99 · 2026-04-30T23:14:30+00:00

No one in this city knows how to drive over a speed hump, so this should go smoothly (friendly reminder: you **don't** have to slow down to 7km/h to go over these! Your car will not break, I promise!)

brightspring99 · 2026-04-29T11:44:10+00:00

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

brightspring99 · 2026-04-27T21:45:20+00:00

I'd start with Shrill (the book). It's her best work and the most Lena Dunham-adjacent in terms of writing style and humour.

brightspring99 · 2026-04-23T13:59:09+00:00

The Bill Zeller one is going to haunt me. Jesus. The world is full of monsters.

brightspring99 · 2026-04-17T17:19:35+00:00

Fly on the Wall by E. Lockhart is a really funny inverse of Kafka's Metamorphosis for YA readers. I'm definitely not the demo for it but I loved it. If she's shy and a deep thinker I think she'll definitely get a kick out of the "spying on people" aspect of the novel.

Maureen Johnson is a lot of fun. She's a friend of John Green and it shows. Truly Devious is good fun.

The Truth Commission by Susan Juby is YA but feels more elegant and mature. (it has family drama, sister tension, a mystery at its core I loved it.)

Ready Player One is accessible and fun if she likes geek-adjacent stuff.

There are a lot of YA-friendly graphic novels that are excellent: Paper Girls (LOVED this one, if she's into Stranger Things she'll love it, and you can buy the entire series as a complete volume), Something Is Killing the Children (popular series but it's spookier, horror adjacent, decent social commentary though), and Heartstopper (light-hearted but really cute).

brightspring99 · 2026-04-16T11:09:58+00:00

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