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maypirateWow. I failed at this week. I guess that's the magic of getting back to work. Very little was achieved except for relearning how to balance my checkbook and finding out that the ATM I always use actually secretly takes $2 from my account for every transaction. Sneaky ATM.
I was reading a fairly charming AU story and started wondering about how I might write my own, the problem is that I always gravitate to one time period and one topic and uhh...it's reserved for other things. *shifty eyes* Maybe I should just write about Jim and his gay alien hamsters. Or write. Period.
Anyway, 30 DAY MEME ARE BACK!
day 14 → a non-fictional book
Of course you get three. And they are awesome.
"The Devil in the Details: Scenes From an Obsessive Girlhood" by Jennifer Traig.
So as most of you know, I have OCD. And it's not as nutsy now as it was a few years ago, but every now and then it reappears and it's a source of both endless amusement and frustration. I read this book when my hypochondrial OCD was really bad and it was amazing. Because it is touching and hilarious and comforting. I may not have had "scrupulosity," but I could and can identify with (and have done) some of the things that make normal people go "what are you doing and why are you doing that stop doing it."
Because people with OCD often know that what they're doing is nuts. We just can't stop. :F
I wish the author was my friend and that we could talk about our OCDs together.
"The Ghost Map" by Steven Johnson
I know not everyone likes disease books as much as I do, but this one was as much a mystery and a study of the evolution of science as much as it was a romp through horrible horrible cholera. It's a dramatic and suspenseful story and its all true and it's super fascinating and easily accessible even if you're not very much into medical science. And it takes place in Victorian England! I know some of you like that coughcoughAjacough.
It gets a little preachy in the epilogue section, but before that, it is super excellent and I've read it twice. And now I want to read it again.
"Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach.
Noticing a theme? Yeah. I'm like that. But OH MY GOD. This is one of my favorite favorite books and if you want to pick a starting point for my bizarre interest in the history of medicine and such, this would be a good place. It's everything you ever wanted to know and more about what happens when you donate your body to science and all sorts of other amazing tidbits of knowledge and Mary Roach is ridiculously funny and I've read this several times too. It is, of course, not exactly for the squeamish, but it's a whole lot of fun.
I know I think all my books are good, but these are really good. I come back to them again and again and that's not always something you do with non-fiction. ;)
So dig it.
I was reading a fairly charming AU story and started wondering about how I might write my own, the problem is that I always gravitate to one time period and one topic and uhh...it's reserved for other things. *shifty eyes* Maybe I should just write about Jim and his gay alien hamsters. Or write. Period.
Anyway, 30 DAY MEME ARE BACK!
day 14 → a non-fictional book
Of course you get three. And they are awesome.
"The Devil in the Details: Scenes From an Obsessive Girlhood" by Jennifer Traig.
So as most of you know, I have OCD. And it's not as nutsy now as it was a few years ago, but every now and then it reappears and it's a source of both endless amusement and frustration. I read this book when my hypochondrial OCD was really bad and it was amazing. Because it is touching and hilarious and comforting. I may not have had "scrupulosity," but I could and can identify with (and have done) some of the things that make normal people go "what are you doing and why are you doing that stop doing it."
Because people with OCD often know that what they're doing is nuts. We just can't stop. :F
I wish the author was my friend and that we could talk about our OCDs together.
"The Ghost Map" by Steven Johnson
I know not everyone likes disease books as much as I do, but this one was as much a mystery and a study of the evolution of science as much as it was a romp through horrible horrible cholera. It's a dramatic and suspenseful story and its all true and it's super fascinating and easily accessible even if you're not very much into medical science. And it takes place in Victorian England! I know some of you like that coughcoughAjacough.
It gets a little preachy in the epilogue section, but before that, it is super excellent and I've read it twice. And now I want to read it again.
"Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach.
Noticing a theme? Yeah. I'm like that. But OH MY GOD. This is one of my favorite favorite books and if you want to pick a starting point for my bizarre interest in the history of medicine and such, this would be a good place. It's everything you ever wanted to know and more about what happens when you donate your body to science and all sorts of other amazing tidbits of knowledge and Mary Roach is ridiculously funny and I've read this several times too. It is, of course, not exactly for the squeamish, but it's a whole lot of fun.
I know I think all my books are good, but these are really good. I come back to them again and again and that's not always something you do with non-fiction. ;)
So dig it.
