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I feel like I would have been more into this if I was younger? I've got almost a decade on Benoit - she learned about feminism on twitter, I found my footing on blogs and forums, the internet was a different place then!
I read it compulsively tho, the chapters are short listicles or medium length more reflective pieces. Aside from from some chuckles and head nods I did feel like overall I didn't get the full payoff the blurb promised - like girl you were too exhausted to play chill girl games with cis straight men but you're still working 3 jobs? All of that plus 10years plus pandemic is our currently level (I no longer work three jobs because no thank you)
Damn SGJ can write. A ripe shocking decent into vengeance and retribution. Elks. A solid horror read even if I feel no closer to narrowing in on what the psychological horror genre really is. #bookclub4m
Oh, it had all the things I like and somehow I had to work to keep reading it. I can't tell if it's pandemic brain or the plotting being a little more meandering than I'm used to. How'm I supposed to feel about Gideon? Who hurt Eliza? Why didn't Dorcas kill him after what happened with Della? That thing with the ghost boxer??????????
Dang Moreno-Garcia can write, this is my third read of hers (all different! Signal to Noise, Mexican Gothic, and now this) I liked the shark on the cover more than I was into the premise but it came through. Maybe I'll read the vampire one next...
Very straightforward writing style. Woman likes to beat people up and win. Hope she finds some less shitty boyfriends tho.
Yea! Creepy short stories! My jam. Some of these landed better with me than others, but it's been too damn long since I had something so delightfully creepy.
Willie Stewart! Becomes a one armed rugby player! Re-learns to swim and ride a bike! In the 80s! Ahhhhhhh! — whoops, that was my halfway point update. Now that I'm finished I can say THIS is my preferred mix of sport science studies, drama-filled race descriptions and athlete stories of triumph or tribulation. The psychobiological model is the hypothesis that what limits endurance athletes is our ability to deal with the perception of effort - how hard the work feels and how much we are willing to suffer for a particular goal. The chapters go through different mental tactics different athletes have used to give out more effort regardless of physical limitations (see the one-armed rugby player turned triathlete)
I listen to a podcast called Science of Ultra with Shawn Bearden so some of this is pretty familiar. Koerner goes through all the aspects of running ultras based on his experience of running and organizing races. It even includes training plans for various ultra distances(50km, 50 miles, etc) but doesn't tell you whether the distances in the plan are miles or kms? I guess it's probably American so imperial units like the nonsense monkeys they are.
Adorable - utterly adorable. She gets to be a scientist, ‘intercourse' almost became a sexy word, pretty much the perfect amount of happy ending. I wouldn't say the charcters are too historical in mindset, but it made for a satisfying amount of wish fulfillment mush.
