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dear Tade,
two chapters in i thought Kaaro was this cool detached psychic woman, with female friends, boss and colleagues, who could fight a zombie if she had to.
now a hundred pages in i find i’m following Kaaro a mean spirited guy, who sexualises women and their bodies at the drop of a hat, is never generous in what he thinks of others, and i’m reading gratuitous sex scenes with a girl and macho scenes where the guys gets to prove he’s in control even if the girl insisted on driving.
and don’t give me that “duh it’s nigeria” crap. it’s 40 years in the future, and my nigerian friends today are more evolved than this guy.
i feel betrayed. where i started a good sci fi i could disappear into i now get harangued by a character that thinks i’m either for f*cking or ignoring. it’s upsetting. would you follow a protagonist Nazi? i doubt it.
i don’t want to be around him, i’d rather forgo the story than be around him.
can i have a refund please?
two chapters in i thought Kaaro was this cool detached psychic woman, with female friends, boss and colleagues, who could fight a zombie if she had to.
now a hundred pages in i find i’m following Kaaro a mean spirited guy, who sexualises women and their bodies at the drop of a hat, is never generous in what he thinks of others, and i’m reading gratuitous sex scenes with a girl and macho scenes where the guys gets to prove he’s in control even if the girl insisted on driving.
and don’t give me that “duh it’s nigeria” crap. it’s 40 years in the future, and my nigerian friends today are more evolved than this guy.
i feel betrayed. where i started a good sci fi i could disappear into i now get harangued by a character that thinks i’m either for f*cking or ignoring. it’s upsetting. would you follow a protagonist Nazi? i doubt it.
i don’t want to be around him, i’d rather forgo the story than be around him.
can i have a refund please?
Absolutely fascinating stuff and it's so bang on with myself and many clients I've chatted about it with. Wow.
Incredibly moving story of truth and survival. Each page of this short volume drew me into the author's experience and made me think. I feel like I'll go back to some passages many more times.
I previously had read When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect TIming by Daniel Pink and I was interested in seeing if this book had any more or different information. It covers a lot of the same ground, people have a chronotype and it is generally fixed. While Daniel Pink’s book used the more common Larks and Owls to categories people, this one groups people into three - Lions(Morning people), Wolves (Night people), or Bears (people who fall in between both groups). There are quizzes to help determine what category you fall in, and a prescriptive set of actions and schedules that can help each type optimize their days. It goes in to very specific detail regarding when to wake up, when to exercise, when and what to eat, for each type. I’ve been loosely following the schedule for my type according to this book (Bear, if anyone cares) for about two weeks and I can’t say if it is helping or not for sure, but it might be. The Daniel Pink book is more interesting and I think I learned more from it, but this book has very specific and detailed action plans. I am glad I read both of them and I definitely got some different things out of them, but if you are interested in the whole chronotyping concept and only want to read one book I would go with the Daniel Pink When.
Suspense...cliffhanger!
Vampires are storytellers:
"....Storytellers were in great demand at the Festival. Vampires didn't bother much with books. They preferred to keep the past alive orally. I don't think the full history of the vampires had ever been written down...." (pg 87)
""Exaggeration is the key to every legend..."" [speaker = Gavner:] (pg 142)
typo- page 78 "Kurda sighed, took of his shoes, and advanced...."
Vampires are storytellers:
"....Storytellers were in great demand at the Festival. Vampires didn't bother much with books. They preferred to keep the past alive orally. I don't think the full history of the vampires had ever been written down...." (pg 87)
""Exaggeration is the key to every legend..."" [speaker = Gavner:] (pg 142)
typo- page 78 "Kurda sighed, took of his shoes, and advanced...."
I read this book a couple of months ago and had to come back to write a review. It's as good as a book of pop-science can be. It's as hard to know how to feel about the layout of this book as I'm sure it was for the author to decide how to piece it together. There are four main chronotypes, and sometimes I enjoyed learning about the other three, but most often it was just a "but what about MEEEEE?" feeling of wanting to skip over everything and only deal with mine.
While not my chronotype, I did find the Wolf info interesting. I think there is a whole swath of people in our society we have written off as lazy slackers, when really they are just working on a different time from the rest of us. As a Bear learning code (a profession described in the book as Wolf-friendly), it certainly helped me to understand why I was struggling starting at 5pm while all of my classmates didn't knock off until 2am.
I've heard experts saying this everywhere, but this book finally gave me the push I needed to ditch my bedside smartphone habit. It now charges overnight in another room, and I replaced it with a good old-fashioned alarm clock. I also bought a bluetooth light for my bedside lamp, which turns off at precisely 11pm every night and turns on slowly over 30 minutes. I've gotten so used to the light and the timing of everything that I no longer use the alarm clock anymore. I repeat: I DO NOT NEED AN ALARM CLOCK ANYMORE. Freaking fabulous.
While not my chronotype, I did find the Wolf info interesting. I think there is a whole swath of people in our society we have written off as lazy slackers, when really they are just working on a different time from the rest of us. As a Bear learning code (a profession described in the book as Wolf-friendly), it certainly helped me to understand why I was struggling starting at 5pm while all of my classmates didn't knock off until 2am.
I've heard experts saying this everywhere, but this book finally gave me the push I needed to ditch my bedside smartphone habit. It now charges overnight in another room, and I replaced it with a good old-fashioned alarm clock. I also bought a bluetooth light for my bedside lamp, which turns off at precisely 11pm every night and turns on slowly over 30 minutes. I've gotten so used to the light and the timing of everything that I no longer use the alarm clock anymore. I repeat: I DO NOT NEED AN ALARM CLOCK ANYMORE. Freaking fabulous.
I'm not a huge fantasy reader, but as we move into fall I do enjoy incorporating some witchy/paranormal reads into the fold. This is a You've Got Mail retelling (with a scene that was remade right from the movie and made me giggle) with sort of "intro to fantasy books" vibes. It wasn't too much or too overwhelming and I appreciate that as I tend to get lost in all the aspects of creating a new world. It's pretty low on the spice, but there was definitely a moment that clutched at my heartstrings and saved the book for me. Books have to have spice or heart or I just can't get onboard.
I found this to be quite entertaining! Laugh out loud funny, with heart clenching moments. A fun look into the world of Manga writing and publishing.
Absolutely bizarre. I liked the themes it explored, but I’m not sure I liked the book flipping randomly to a supernatural horror towards the end. Also, I need to feel connection to the characters if I’m not totally hooked by the plot, and I couldn’t do this because they were so unrealistic and just generally horrible people!