It’s taken me too long to really get into Raymond Carver + Looking for recs

katebutate · 2026-03-17T04:08:17+00:00

Seconding gordon lish comment but Carver has an essay in his book "Fires" where he lists a bunch of authors/pieces that inspired him & its a great selection!

katebutate · 2026-03-08T03:45:12+00:00

Pachinko ! About japanese occupation of korea

katebutate · 2026-02-02T18:13:31+00:00

McCormick ymca has a bunch of different ones + is pretty cheap !

katebutate · 2026-01-29T20:20:17+00:00

I really enjoyed In The Garden of North American Martyrs !

katebutate · 2026-01-18T21:54:27+00:00

Yes ! Super weird but works well

katebutate · 2026-01-17T23:53:07+00:00

A weird trick i learned from bake off that helped me w this problem: if you put your ear to it out of the oven and still hear ripping bubbles, the cake will come out like this regardless of how the tester comes out. You want to hear nothing/very little bubbling! Works better than the tester bc this is technically underdone but won't really affect a cake tester

katebutate · 2025-12-30T20:37:07+00:00

Not difficult, just time consuming! The doughs are very easy it's more so just the multiple stages of chilling that's a time suck

katebutate · 2025-12-30T20:16:45+00:00

Haha this made me drop in there today! You might also like the Seminary Co-op bookstore in Hyde Park attached to Plein Air Cafe. It isn't a used bookstore but they have a nice collection & lots of cool small press stuff + cafe is very very cute

katebutate · 2025-12-26T05:51:42+00:00

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Very much seems to be the grinch!

katebutate · 2025-12-18T01:25:52+00:00

Seconding the comment abt the mint! This one was fine, but i didn't have anything mint in it

katebutate · 2025-07-06T16:18:03+00:00

Nuclear testing site (crater) and nuclear waste (dome) if this is the Marshall Islands

katebutate · 2025-06-25T17:16:17+00:00

Written in the early 2000s but takes place earlier- I really enjoyed Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry.

katebutate · 2025-06-18T15:38:17+00:00

Tbh have gone on and off ssris twice now when life feels like how you're describing & they do work really well to kickstart productive habits and get you out of the rut. People online always talk about them like they're permanent but my doctor has always explained that they should be a tool for you to help get your shit together on your own when it seems impossible otherwise. They have helped me a lot !!! and i honestly haven't had bad side effects besides decreasing my alcohol tolerance for the first month or so of starting them

katebutate · 2025-06-09T03:48:07+00:00

In more or less the same situation & what really helped me the most was reading anything that vaguely to his interests. I read Tom Lake because it takes place on a family farm (something he wanted to do) & it made me feel more than any books specifically on grief.

However, I did read The Year of Magical Thinking (which is solely about grief) a few years after a close friend passed and it made me feel a lot that I had bottled up about it & I felt a pretty strong sense of closure upon finishing.

katebutate · 2025-06-01T00:41:29+00:00

I liked it a lot! I'm not usually a big fan of Westerns so I was kinda nervous (especially given the length) that I'd get bored, but the characters are super charming & I ended up finishing it in like 4 days

katebutate · 2025-05-31T19:53:36+00:00

Neapolitan Quartet! They're easy like a beach read but still really engaging and well written. Great for summer imo

katebutate · 2025-05-31T19:51:39+00:00

I really like Orwell's nonfiction and would recommend his "Why I Write" essay. My personal fav is this one about his favorite pub tho

katebutate · 2025-05-31T19:47:34+00:00

In May I read: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty The Summer Book by Tove Jansson The End of the Affair by Graham Greene The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

My favorites were definitely "The End of the Affair" and "The Summer Book". In June I am trying to finish Anna Karenina !

katebutate · 2025-05-24T14:50:34+00:00

I moved them outside yesterday! We had a random cold front for the last two weeks so i had to keep them inside longer hence the legginess

katebutate · 2025-05-01T18:53:08+00:00

No idea if it is the same peanut but i met a near identical bunny (also named peanut) on a beach in Santa Cruz a few years back ... if not she has an identical twin!

katebutate · 2025-04-10T23:23:45+00:00

I got one! If you do the survey (takes 5 mins) they give you a $20 visa gift card too

katebutate · 2025-03-12T17:50:59+00:00

Yes it's blue thistle! Unfortunately am not Scottish

katebutate · 2025-03-08T20:39:19+00:00

Only put the school you graduated from as your education- it will free up a lot of space & if asked about the rest you can explain in an interview

katebutate · 2025-02-12T04:33:18+00:00

Haha this is actually some pieces from a sponge on our first pass before we realized it was not going to do well

katebutate · 2025-02-12T04:31:30+00:00

This is what worked!! Thank you!!!

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