I have a kobo ereader for that exact reason, and it works just fine, great for library books (which is all I use it for). But did you see that bookshop just launched an ereader app? If i was deciding today i might consider a cheap tablet with that app in lieu of a formal ereader, but idk about library compatibility.
I didn’t see that bookshop launched one!!!!!!! That’s good to know…… no luck w speech documentary, I didn’t really catch any docs tho would like to watch Predators later today if time allows
hi fran!! we watched thief for the first time. seth hated the main guy. i thought he was unimaginably hot in a “one night stand but run away from the relationship” way. duality of man!
I’m so pleased that the 2 interesting sounding features out of Sundance, Train Dreams and “Legs”, seem to be worthwhile. I love Train Dreams, maybe we should make it a Johnson year for the book club … I still haven’t read Tree of Smoke
Train Dreams (movie) is definitely doing a Malick/early Lowery/Cianfrance type of pastiche but I also like all of those things enough to like when a well-executed pastiche is done, in the same way that I like when Jai Courtney is in a movie because it reminds me how much I like when Tom Hardy is in a movie
Wow Peter Hujar’s Day just became even more anticipated to me—Ben Whishaw being a favorite actor, 70 minutes, the vibes of the screenshot alone…cannot wait
Also regarding ereaders, I bought a Kobo last year and it’s completely changed how I read—feel like picking up a book for brief moments here and there is so seamless and easy and the library integration is excellent, about 80% of the 20 or so books I’ve read on there are library checkouts. I will tell anybody it’s the best thing I ever bought myself!
I watched last season of traitors in a passing way with friends and need to dive into this season! Only reality TV I watch is GBBP, top chef, and drag race so I similarly feel less involved in the whole “thing” but feel like that makes it all the more fascinating.
Inquiring readers would like to know…are you watching Severance?
Are you able to read PDFS/epubs on Kobo? (Disregard if that's not part of your reading experience...) Part of what I'm trying to do is read galleys/ebooks more easily and reading on phone is too small for eyes and laptop is too clunky/awkward.
I do not watch Severance... I confess I don't have much of an interest despite nearly everyone I know watching. What I do know/see of it just doesn't compel me though that could change at some point (I was late to Succession too - like a moron.) I loved the Adam Scott profile in the New Yorker though!!!
Creation Lake.... My opinion of it is probably REALLY gonna depend on the ending, because I'm not sure what we're all doing right now. I don't dislike it, though! (I did start it while I was really sick last week, too, so I'm still like "Wait, who is Bruno again? Which one is Guy?"
I'm constantly getting all the guys mixed up, which - yes, is definitely a side effect of putting it down for a minute... but..... all these guys DO blur together
I have a Kobo and I love it... partially because you can get library books on it which isn't possible on kindles outside of the US and also because it doesn't show advertising on the screen, but the books are a LOT more expensive than kindle if you're not using the library. I had a great month for reading in January and read some properly weird essay collections; my favourite was The Chthonic Cycle which was essays about biological gems like amber and jet and pearls and somehow very compelling.
ereader advice depends a little on where you plan to get your books but I'm a huge fan of eink devices. They are great. I think my main thing is if you don't get a Kindle just don't end up with something running on its own bespoke OS instead of Android or Linux. That way if the company dies you don't end up with a useless device.
I went through this recently trying to figure out an eink tablet and I ended up with a Kindle Scribe (because I've been in the Amazon ecosystem for ages) and if you get a Kindle my only advice is to get a refurbished one that was made before 2024. (The reason for this has to do with stripping Amazon DRM.) Kobo seems to be the default choice for people who don't want a Kindle but I was turned off from looking into them partly because Mozilla seemed to be down on them: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/kobo-ereaders/ (They like an ereader called the Pocketbook but I couldn't find enough reviews to try it.)
Been praying for the digest return……prayer works !!!!! I too am gunning for normal February tho it’s unlikely. Currently reading Adrienne Kennedy’s “people who led to my plays” for grad school and it’s wonderful….i guess you’d now call it a “fragment memoir” but it’s more a collage of impressions and inputs…..I am Digging It
The challenges are way better than high stakes for me. Challenges are de facto white stake so a lot of the slot machine design bits don’t get in the way of the scraping by with a rotating door of joker vibes. Also they feel like cracking the game open in ways that like, re rolling at ante 2 cuz you didn’t get a scaling joker just doesn’t
The Sandoval/VPR lore is worth getting into but too mainstream by now … give it another few years to become a cult classic again. i use Peacock for Top Chef, VPR (RIP) and the various Below Deck franchises, but draw a hard line at adopting any additional Bravo projects (no Housewives either). And yet I am pursued, plagued, pelted by women pleading with me to discuss “Summer House”. Am I not meeting the culture more than halfway?
in case the above did not make it clear I resumed my chronological Philip Roth project this month. The Breast is mercifully short and not that gross. Our Gang, his Nixon satire, was a lot funnier and more successful than I would have thought. I’m looking forward to getting to his more ambitious novels but it’s fun to see him trying on voices, etc
It has been “Long Movie January” here with the Wiseman series at Siskel, plus a screening of La Region Centrale at Doc. saw the full Blind & Deaf quartet plus Near Death in one week, so after today’s Domestic Violence screening I will have most of the “difficult” Wisemans out of the way. But I thought Near Death was enthralling, as funny and gripping scene to scene as anything he’s done. Belfast Maine, seen yesterday with a full house, may be The One.
I read a ton of Roth in early grad school and haven't really gone back since, though I was mostly happy with what I read. the last one I read was Plot Against America - which I think is considered lesser (?) Roth - but I enjoyed it a lot. might have helped that I was reading it for a class I audited which gave the experience a productive book club feel. I tried watching the HBO series which I found both too faithful and too dull in execution.
the Wiseman series is only just now kicking off here starting this weekend and going thru early March... I am hoping to catch some next weekend, maybe, and whenever I can squeeze them in here or there. I have only seen a handful of his and would like to fill in some blanks of the "Better" ones. your review of Belfast has really kicked that one up in the priorities list.
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I have a kobo ereader for that exact reason, and it works just fine, great for library books (which is all I use it for). But did you see that bookshop just launched an ereader app? If i was deciding today i might consider a cheap tablet with that app in lieu of a formal ereader, but idk about library compatibility.
Also did you see the speech documentary? 😶😶
speech as in speech and debate team? what's it called?
this one! "Speak.": http://festival.sundance.org/program/film/6753333d68b8b7221bfe5700
I didn’t see that bookshop launched one!!!!!!! That’s good to know…… no luck w speech documentary, I didn’t really catch any docs tho would like to watch Predators later today if time allows
hi fran!! we watched thief for the first time. seth hated the main guy. i thought he was unimaginably hot in a “one night stand but run away from the relationship” way. duality of man!
James Caan is so hot to me 😭😭😭 one of the all time Jewish hunks!!! One of the great movies about being a freelancer
I’m so pleased that the 2 interesting sounding features out of Sundance, Train Dreams and “Legs”, seem to be worthwhile. I love Train Dreams, maybe we should make it a Johnson year for the book club … I still haven’t read Tree of Smoke
Train Dreams (movie) is definitely doing a Malick/early Lowery/Cianfrance type of pastiche but I also like all of those things enough to like when a well-executed pastiche is done, in the same way that I like when Jai Courtney is in a movie because it reminds me how much I like when Tom Hardy is in a movie
me either Tree of Smoke could be a great mini book club
Oh no the reveal that Boston Rob is in The Traitors 3 might finally push me over the edge into watching it…one of the worst of all human beings
He's awesome - one of the most evil guys (endorsement) alive
Crazy that the baby wasn't scared of Spirited Away because that movie delayed my anime awakening by about a decade. The pig scene made me cry
She’s literally chilling during that one and loves when the dad says “daddy’s got credit cards and CASH”
Wow Peter Hujar’s Day just became even more anticipated to me—Ben Whishaw being a favorite actor, 70 minutes, the vibes of the screenshot alone…cannot wait
Also regarding ereaders, I bought a Kobo last year and it’s completely changed how I read—feel like picking up a book for brief moments here and there is so seamless and easy and the library integration is excellent, about 80% of the 20 or so books I’ve read on there are library checkouts. I will tell anybody it’s the best thing I ever bought myself!
I watched last season of traitors in a passing way with friends and need to dive into this season! Only reality TV I watch is GBBP, top chef, and drag race so I similarly feel less involved in the whole “thing” but feel like that makes it all the more fascinating.
Inquiring readers would like to know…are you watching Severance?
Are you able to read PDFS/epubs on Kobo? (Disregard if that's not part of your reading experience...) Part of what I'm trying to do is read galleys/ebooks more easily and reading on phone is too small for eyes and laptop is too clunky/awkward.
I do not watch Severance... I confess I don't have much of an interest despite nearly everyone I know watching. What I do know/see of it just doesn't compel me though that could change at some point (I was late to Succession too - like a moron.) I loved the Adam Scott profile in the New Yorker though!!!
I have this problem but also for reading comics! Impossible to read on a phone, too clunky to read on the widescreen laptop.
I haven’t done epubs/PDFs, but you can through plugging it into your computer or using google drive/dropbox! https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360024775093-Add-non-protected-PDF-and-ePub-files-to-your-Kobo-eReader-using-your-computer
*GBBO, how dare I stumble upon its name
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Creation Lake.... My opinion of it is probably REALLY gonna depend on the ending, because I'm not sure what we're all doing right now. I don't dislike it, though! (I did start it while I was really sick last week, too, so I'm still like "Wait, who is Bruno again? Which one is Guy?"
I'm constantly getting all the guys mixed up, which - yes, is definitely a side effect of putting it down for a minute... but..... all these guys DO blur together
Great book cover, though!
Totally!! I still like Kushner, just feeling like a sort of off one from her
I have a Kobo and I love it... partially because you can get library books on it which isn't possible on kindles outside of the US and also because it doesn't show advertising on the screen, but the books are a LOT more expensive than kindle if you're not using the library. I had a great month for reading in January and read some properly weird essay collections; my favourite was The Chthonic Cycle which was essays about biological gems like amber and jet and pearls and somehow very compelling.
I frankly love using the library so this is only a plus to me!!!!
ereader advice depends a little on where you plan to get your books but I'm a huge fan of eink devices. They are great. I think my main thing is if you don't get a Kindle just don't end up with something running on its own bespoke OS instead of Android or Linux. That way if the company dies you don't end up with a useless device.
I went through this recently trying to figure out an eink tablet and I ended up with a Kindle Scribe (because I've been in the Amazon ecosystem for ages) and if you get a Kindle my only advice is to get a refurbished one that was made before 2024. (The reason for this has to do with stripping Amazon DRM.) Kobo seems to be the default choice for people who don't want a Kindle but I was turned off from looking into them partly because Mozilla seemed to be down on them: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/kobo-ereaders/ (They like an ereader called the Pocketbook but I couldn't find enough reviews to try it.)
Helpful!!!!!!! Pocketbook came up a lot in research too…
"Veuve" just means widow in French. Do we know if the makers of Widow Cliquot know that? Or did they think they'd stumbled upon a neat rhyme?
Wow had no clue
Been praying for the digest return……prayer works !!!!! I too am gunning for normal February tho it’s unlikely. Currently reading Adrienne Kennedy’s “people who led to my plays” for grad school and it’s wonderful….i guess you’d now call it a “fragment memoir” but it’s more a collage of impressions and inputs…..I am Digging It
I need to learn to read again stat..
Yeast is so good it makes me wish mumblecore was real :/
The challenges are way better than high stakes for me. Challenges are de facto white stake so a lot of the slot machine design bits don’t get in the way of the scraping by with a rotating door of joker vibes. Also they feel like cracking the game open in ways that like, re rolling at ante 2 cuz you didn’t get a scaling joker just doesn’t
I love the challenges I have three left and they're beating my ass though I did get to ante 7 on Jokerless last night
The Sandoval/VPR lore is worth getting into but too mainstream by now … give it another few years to become a cult classic again. i use Peacock for Top Chef, VPR (RIP) and the various Below Deck franchises, but draw a hard line at adopting any additional Bravo projects (no Housewives either). And yet I am pursued, plagued, pelted by women pleading with me to discuss “Summer House”. Am I not meeting the culture more than halfway?
in case the above did not make it clear I resumed my chronological Philip Roth project this month. The Breast is mercifully short and not that gross. Our Gang, his Nixon satire, was a lot funnier and more successful than I would have thought. I’m looking forward to getting to his more ambitious novels but it’s fun to see him trying on voices, etc
It has been “Long Movie January” here with the Wiseman series at Siskel, plus a screening of La Region Centrale at Doc. saw the full Blind & Deaf quartet plus Near Death in one week, so after today’s Domestic Violence screening I will have most of the “difficult” Wisemans out of the way. But I thought Near Death was enthralling, as funny and gripping scene to scene as anything he’s done. Belfast Maine, seen yesterday with a full house, may be The One.
looking forward to “short movies Feb”
Below Deck... very Soderbergh of you...
I read a ton of Roth in early grad school and haven't really gone back since, though I was mostly happy with what I read. the last one I read was Plot Against America - which I think is considered lesser (?) Roth - but I enjoyed it a lot. might have helped that I was reading it for a class I audited which gave the experience a productive book club feel. I tried watching the HBO series which I found both too faithful and too dull in execution.
the Wiseman series is only just now kicking off here starting this weekend and going thru early March... I am hoping to catch some next weekend, maybe, and whenever I can squeeze them in here or there. I have only seen a handful of his and would like to fill in some blanks of the "Better" ones. your review of Belfast has really kicked that one up in the priorities list.
I was only able to get to Central Park but it was excellent, highly recommend