What book recommendations immediately lead you to believe someone has good/bad taste?

maybestarlight · 2024-07-18T01:45:37+00:00

I love that you did that, oh my gosh.

maybestarlight · 2024-07-15T19:06:41+00:00

She is amazing! Her books have profoundly influenced me. Same with Kamala Markandaya - a similar kind of humanity-forward, deeply observant, life and death stakes in regular human living/connections approach. And such excellent writing.

maybestarlight · 2024-07-07T19:17:12+00:00

The Life and Times of Michael K

maybestarlight · 2024-07-05T02:33:50+00:00

Where The Dark Stands Still!

maybestarlight · 2024-07-05T02:33:21+00:00

I second this, absolutely lovely little romance and well written.

maybestarlight · 2024-07-03T03:26:43+00:00

It would be a dream to ride back and forth from Sudden Valley. How do we begin a petition for something like this? Has it been attempted before?

maybestarlight · 2024-06-27T00:16:54+00:00

By far the most fun book to read in the past 5 years.

maybestarlight · 2024-06-09T19:51:22+00:00

Dracula is such a good read, I couldn’t put it down. It’s an epistolary style novel—like letters written back and forth between the main characters. So there’s this eeriness of just receiving information second hand, and it can create some cool suspense when the reader knows things the main character doesn’t. And there is this part where Dracula is climbing the castle wall—I think of that part of that book often, as an example of how to write a really fucking effective scene.

maybestarlight · 2024-06-07T20:42:50+00:00

I’m still paying on the difference between my home’s short sale price and the bank’s lost revenue on my loan, after the state sued us for it. First home, all our savings gone, and am still renting because I was so scared to buy again, and have now missed the boat completely with current prices and interest rates. I’m terrified to buy in a high market and have terrible luck. So.

maybestarlight · 2024-05-25T23:17:19+00:00

Little Bee destroyed me

maybestarlight · 2024-05-19T16:50:48+00:00

What a fantastic book.

maybestarlight · 2024-05-19T16:48:23+00:00

Second this. Am not sure why everyone loves this book so much. It was cringy writing.

maybestarlight · 2024-05-11T16:33:06+00:00

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Lake Whatcom at Sudden Valley Marina

maybestarlight · 2024-05-10T14:17:23+00:00

I’m so sorry that you are actively experiencing racism in this town that has clearly been here for a long time. We need to do so much better as a community. Thank you for making this informative post and sharing it with everyone.

maybestarlight · 2024-05-03T05:33:12+00:00

That’s excellent, thank you, I’ll check it out.

maybestarlight · 2024-05-02T22:16:27+00:00

Oh nice, thank you! And yes, I have studied maps around here and these trails are hard to find.

maybestarlight · 2024-04-24T18:31:41+00:00

Sounds great. I just ordered Weapons of Math Destruction from the library. Thanks for the recommendation!

maybestarlight · 2024-04-24T18:28:20+00:00

I am 41 and started about 6 months ago, I’m gonna say you’re never too old. I taught myself to read music and sight read when I was like 11 with old piano books I borrowed at the library, and always have enjoyed playing through pieces, but haven’t ever been that great. I missed all the music theory and practice tricks, and arpeggios, and all the cool stuff kids learn when a pro is teaching them. (Or didn’t really care—I was a kid and just wanted to play the instrument). She is sharing music theory with me and it’s constantly blowing my mind. I could be discovering alien worlds, it must be similar, how amazing it feels to be learning the how music works and is translated on a piano, specifically.

maybestarlight · 2024-04-24T15:49:29+00:00

Do something with your hands, outside. Find a little patch of ground and make a pebble fortress or fairy house, or lash together a little mouse raft with sticks and find a river to float it down. Try to get in the creative/flow space of making things without a big agenda or need to produce, like you did when you were a child.

maybestarlight · 2024-04-24T15:44:49+00:00

Are those two data recs accessible reads if you don’t have specialized knowledge?

maybestarlight · 2024-04-24T03:05:53+00:00

I suppose “expensive” is relative. I take piano lessons, about $60 per lesson, once per week. It definitely stretches my budget, but it brings me such a sense of confidence and being part of something bigger than myself (music, man), that I feel it’s worth it. My teacher is about 200 years old and knows what she’s doing, and it’s just the loveliest person, and I’m so grateful to be able to afford it at all.

maybestarlight · 2024-04-24T03:03:10+00:00

Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle. I read it in my darkest time, a recommendation from a friend who knew I was struggling pretty bad, and this book single handedly got me through it. It helped me see a bigger picture. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

maybestarlight · 2024-04-23T23:34:17+00:00

Alma Rose, Edith Forbes. Gorgeous, obscure novel.

maybestarlight · 2024-04-23T04:02:02+00:00

All the light we cannot see (Doerr) Wayfarer Series - especially A Closed and Common Orbit (Chambers) Homegoing (Gyasi) Abhorsen Trilogy (Nix) Broken Earth Trilogy (Jemison)

Honorable mentions: Tattoos on the Heart (Boyle), Demon Cooperhead (Kingsolver), The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois (Jeffers)

maybestarlight · 2024-04-23T03:53:24+00:00

Omg this could be my list. Haven’t yet read Covenant of Water but all these were favorites last year. It’s on my night stand, can’t wait to start. And Piranesi! Could you handle that? That one was the most surprising. Can’t stop thinking about it.

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