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I’m now reading Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie. I was in the mood for something lighter and I had never read it. No murder yet, no idea how the story will unfold. It breathes that old atmosphere of a classic detective, which is really nice.

You can always just load the page of your instance (lemmy.org) in a browser, sign in, done.

I’ve been playing this too the past few days, I like it. The thing with the painting is, after you’ve painted for a while, you get perk points which you can spend to paint faster. You get assignments in your email inbox and there you will learn new skills and get money.

Since you’re not the kind of person to do the same thing over and over though, I wouldn’t recommend this game. I think I’m more that kind of person, but I’m already getting tired of it.

For literally every other conjugation of that verb, you should use “run.”

Except third person singular present tense, as in “my cousin runs a hotel”, “it runs in the family” etc.

I read The Two Hotel Francforts by David Leavitt, which was so-so. I wouldn’t recommend it since I wouldn’t know why.

Now I’m reading Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin. I’ve only just started, but I really like it so far. It’s my first read of Baldwin and I’m really impressed by his writing.

Nice that the weekly thread is back 🙂

Since the last one I finished Roadside Picnic. It was good. Still have to watch the movie though.

After that I tried reading Duin, the Dutch translation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, but I stopped reading after about a third of the book. The translation wasn’t good, so I thought about reading it in English, but ultimately the story was annoying me.

Then I read Holly by Stephen King and his The Outsider after that. They were fine. Just fine, nothing more. Not really interested in reading more by him. It was nice to read something better after Duin though.

Then I read The Road by Cormac McCarthy, which I had wanted to read for years already. It was heavy and the world he describes is very bleak, but the book is beautiful and so well-written. I highly recommend it.

And now I’m reading A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood. A few months ago I saw the movie and I can already say the book is so much better.

Thanks! I keep hearing good things about the movie, definitely looking forward to watching it.

I’m now reading Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers. It’s the novel that inspired both the Tarkovsky movie Stalker and the video game series S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

It’s really well written. I was having a little trouble getting into it at first because it’s different from what I usually read. The story is told from the perspective of a character whom you follow going about their often shady business. It reminded me of the style of film noir detectives. It’s not really my thing, but the book is good enough to keep me reading.

When finished I’m gonna watch the movie with my boyfriend, who has it on DVD. We did this with 1984 as well, which was a good experience.

I’m now reading Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers. It’s the novel that inspired both the Tarkovsky movie Stalker and the video game series S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

It’s really well written. I was having a little trouble getting into it at first because it’s different from what I usually read. The story is told from the perspective of a character whom you follow going about their often shady business. It reminded me of the style of film noir detectives. It’s not really my thing, but the book is good enough to keep me reading.

When finished I’m gonna watch the movie with my boyfriend, who has it on DVD. We did this with 1984 as well, which was a good experience.

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Someone like @kimvsparrentak@eupolicy.social maybe? I don’t know if she’s a member of the technology committee, but she does work on tech issues.

I finished both Julia by Sandra Newman and 1984 by George Orwell. I liked 1984 better, much more depth and great writing, but Julia was good too.

I’ve now started Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. I like it so far, but I feel it could have had a bit more depth to it. Still an interesting story so far.

What’s also frustrating is “al” is a word in Dutch, meaning although or everything. It’s often used at the start of a sentence, thus capitalised and indistinguishable from AI. After reading too much about A.I., which is unavoidable nowadays, it messes with reading everything, because every now and then a sentence starts with “al” and your brain messes up and you have to go back.

So how is that fair then?

So, what if I wrote a book and got it published, but it didn’t sell well. Some big company copies it, puts a lot of effort in promoting it and it becomes a bestseller. I don’t get any of the money for it, but they cite me as the original author. How is that fair?

Me too! I think I saw that same thread.

I think it’s interesting as well, but I do have a few issues with it. I’m looking forward to seeing where the story goes though.

That word struck me too, but it’s in the dictionary and apparently it’s from Old English “yfelnes”.

Oh, is this why even opening folders in windows is so slow? Explorer at my work computer shows a message like “still working” for multiple seconds before showing something like 12 files. It’s really shitty.

From The Royal Tenenbaums:

“Why did you specifically have to point out I’m not a genius?”

“I just don’t use that word very lightly.”

I had a driving instructor who was specialised in people with fear for driving. He actually helped me manage the anxiety while driving. Maybe it’s a good idea to find someone like that and take a few lessons? It’s very common to take lessons again after not having driven for a long time.