06-01-18, 11:39 AM | ||
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Northern Calif
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Most of my reading lately has been middle grade/YA fantasy. Beyond Madeline L'Engle, Narnia and The Hobbit, I was never much into fantasy as a kid, preferring mysteries and horse books, so it has been fun going back to discover old authors, especially women writers like Susan Cooper and Diana Wynne Jones. I read Howl's Moving Castle and loved it, and am now working through the Chrestomanci books. I also read two books by contemporary author Frances Hardinge, discovered via the Tor.com blog which a great resource if you enjoy sci fi or fantasy writing. Cuckoo Song I liked a lot but The Lie Tree was just ok. She has a creepy, quirky vibe similar to Neil Gaiman.
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06-02-18, 03:21 PM | ||
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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The results were more interesting than I expected. As I've known for years, I'm not overstimulated by things like pain, loud noises, hunger, or caffeine, and I probably don't share certain emotional responses of a typical "highly sensitive person." I consistently score around the threshold, though, because I answer "yes" to enough of the other questions, especially if I interpret "somewhat true" broadly enough. (For example, I check the questions about conscientiousness and disliking certain kinds of pressure.) We could restate that last paragraph in the other direction: although I answer "yes" to enough questions, I don't seem to match a good chunk of what "highly sensitive" means. I'm not attached to being or to not being "highly sensitive," "not highly sensitive," or even in some possible intermediate state. (I don't want to be in either "the majority" or "the minority" for the sake of being "special," being "[reassuringly] normal," not being "weird," or not being "[boringly] ordinary." I also don't want to avoid being either "oversensitive" or "insensitive.") Whatever I am, the subject is at least mildly interesting. This idea also hasn't taught me anything entirely new yet about my exercise-related thoughts and habits, but thinking about the idea has suggested some connections that I hadn't considered before. I've known for longer that I'm an introvert--not an extreme one but a definite one--and I've known of some related influences how my exercise habits, though not extremely strong influences.
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"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." The Velveteen Rabbit |
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audiobooks, books, kindle, reading, spring reading |
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