sitting in the discomfort of my white (passing) privilege has pushed me to educate myself, beginning with my profession. #blacklivesmatter
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sitting in the discomfort of my white (passing) privilege has pushed me to educate myself, beginning with my profession. #blacklivesmatter
Love corn on the cob but not when it's my reading method :3 also: this graphic perfectly describes why it's better to use the "talk to the text" (Reading Apprenticeship) method of annotation than to skim and make careless notes!
This audiobook is SO hard to listen to. They just played the Gutierrez recording, and I feel so slimy and disgusted. WOW.
getting ready for the upcoming semester / finding ways to debunk the genius myth and encourage a growth mindset in incoming freshman ❣️
Did I just accidentally find a thriller w a lesbian couple???? 🥺😍 I heard 'married when legally able to' and I was shook!
I feel like this book is just debunking myths about ability vs effort & I am SUPER here for it. I feel like I have a counter to so many more instances of fixed mindset.
bailedI convinced my professor to let me read Carol Dweck's Mindset instead by making the argument that what Levine espouses is unscientific, takes a medical model approach to children's neurodivergence, and is dangerously racist and outdated. Not to mention straight up pompous and unrelatable. I gave it to my mom to use as fuel for her fire logs.
I'm going to ask for an alternative assignment because this book has me SO mad. It's not a wonder our society is about dominating others to gain wealth and power! This supposed "game changing" practitioner thinks it's a good idea to tell children to think that their peers peak is while they're successful in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL! This is horrendous! Am I reading this incorrectly?
just got a Kobo e-reader and find this folded page to be the quaintest thing 💖
I think I hate this book. This philosophy is so deficit oriented and views skills as discrete and practically unchangeable. Can't one learn to have original thoughts and draw on others ideas with equal ability?? Why am I reading this for university 🤦♂️
I have always had a hard time keeping up on habits... But I have been much better about reading! I'm excited for this weekend's #24B4Monday! I have The Sixth Extinction, Sadie, The Surgeon, and Legend lined up 😊
pani finished but was disappointed (as I suspected i would be)! it didn't feel like much of a thriller. the general plot and “twists“ felt weak and predictable. it also gave me copycat vibes with its similarities to both the feeling of gone girl and the details of the girl on the train. i am not sure that i will be picking up these collaboration pieces because this and an anonymous girl didn't pan out as i wished!
Thirteen percent in and this book is sounding just the like The Girl on the Train. A woman who was kicked out of the home and replaced by another woman? She couldn't get pregnant and slowly began to get obsessed with talking to her ex? Seems like an alcoholic? Should I just bail now? 😞
so-soIt wasnt the best nor the worst. I enjoyed the 2nd person perspective that the authors incorporated. By 60%, it kind of started to drag and I wasn't shocked or excited about the ending.
Watching The Untamed on Netflix got me so excited to read the novel. It has been fan-translated into English....If you love some boy-love situation (could include racy situations too so watch out!), I'm sure you will adore this story.
Here it starts at Ch 1: https://exiledrebelsscanlations.com/gdc-chapter-1/
But also, if you have no background, maybe learning about the sects and clans will help!
so-soThe writing style was stunning to me. The plot...eh, not so much. I think the author could have done a bit more than just allow Korede to fold. She had such a spine in her thinking, but it did not display in her actions. Ayoola was a brat, and yet, because of her beauty...she never had consequence for her behavior.
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What a poignant statement.
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pickI actually enjoyed this one quite a bit. I liked the way that Hawkins constructed the manipulative man and the alcoholic ex-wife. They were very realistic & very sad.
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Here's my full review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3110514943
panwhere do i even begin? Griffin did Brynn no justice making her a headstrong, kickass female in the courtroom and an insecure, blames-herself-always female at home. I was severely disappointed in the female stereotyping (i wish i could expect better from romance novels). Another disappointment: the formulaic nature of this book. I could line it up alongside the second book and show the same sequence of events pretty much. ugh. #popsugar2020
I think they inappropriately named this book "desperate girls" when it should have been "desperate men" ?
starting the year with a month of borrowed books! Let's see if this was any better than the other Laura Griffin I read 😂 #popsugar2020 #popsugarchallenge
my fresh goal for the year 🖤
trying out the #popsugarchallenge this year - everyone is really loving their spreadsheets (and so much power to yall for your awesome work with g-sheets and excel) and i feel left out over here just chilling on Notion with a checklist 😅😅 all tentative ideas, none confirmed quite yet!
I'm starting to notice this theme of thriller novels having characters with alcohol issues 😐 doesn't it get old demonizing alcoholism?
on another thought...i noticed Goodreads doesn't allow you to update anymore beyond a general update. Anyone know why?
& that's a wrap! I completed my challenge (60 books), and even surpassed it by 17 books. I learned how to read audiobooks. I learned how to challenge myself and read even when I am struggling with my mental health. I learned how to have patience enough to read longer than 20 minutes without looking at my phone. I learned to love reading again. I am so grateful to have the ability and accessibility to books...I can't wait for this new year! 🍹
I believe my very first DNF! I tried to like this book and give it a chance. But when a grown man, state-prison counselor is fawning over a woman he saw around high school - who is his client and doesn't remember him AT ALL - I'm out.
sometimes...when I don't know what thriller audiobook I want to listen to... I make technology choose for me haha! xD I am getting on the 'girl on the train' train 😬 my other option was An Anonymous Girl. Any news on that one in audiobook format?
pick“She's a good girl for a cunt.“
This book was WHACK, and this quote really stuck with me. Here's my GR review with way more feelings on the matter --
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3101775310
I'm curious if old-time sci-fi had more of an emphasis on the science part 🤔 going to give this one a try. And it looks like my family got me one of the original 1951 copies :) unfortunately, not the first edition, but still. anyone read this?
this might be my very first DNF but I'm stubbornly giving it till page 100 ish to change my mind. I thought that reading a novel about a counselor (as someone who aspires to be a counselor) would be fun, even if it's about doing the wrong thing with a client. but it turns out, it just pisses me off a lot! also, very slow-moving...this man is a child.
“In the Englightenment, the prevailing view was that every species was a link in a great, unbreakable 'chain of being.'As Alexander Pope put in his Essay on Man:
'All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the soul.' “
look at these cuties! the bottom is a San Jose Cochran frog also nicknamed a 'glass frog' for its translucent skin and the ability to see their internal organs. I adore the tiny but perfectly circular yellow spots on this buddy. the top is a horned marsupial frog. the females are supposed to have a pouch on their frontside like mammal marsupials. these two, among others, were found on the author's expedition to find endangered female frogs!
This is one non-fiction I don't want to forget. I set up my Notion page, and 20 ish pages in and I'm already fascinated (and sad). I'm curious if this is going to be a detailed history of mass extinctions with no solution or future-forward commentary or what but I look forward to it!
panSuper disappointing book. Worst Patterson book I've read. Here's my Goodreads review in top ten reasons why I hated it format.
Got some pickups from the library ❣️ I decided that I should try and pair fast paced books with the nonfiction to help me work through both simultaneously. I'll see how it goes 😅 I think it's going to be tough for me to put down the quick reads and be more deliberate about getting through the nonfiction. Wish me luck! 😂
Another rainy day and a perfect time to read! Was absolutely laughing my ass off about this one the other day xD I love the humor in this novel.
pickA little bit old and outdated, but it does have some brilliant ideas about how to step away from standardized education and more toward a naturalistic learning process. Children will learn many of the academic skills that are required to be successful in traditional primary school without doing it explicitly. They practice vocabulary, pro-social behavior, storytelling, and so forth through play. Ashton-Warner really taught me to embrace the chaos!
pickI read this over the semester to help me think about how I was stimulating children's creativity through art and expression, and I thought this gave me a big hand in NOT being so hard on myself. I had more limited resources but made the best out of what I had. I ended up using a lot of recycled and natural materials in the classroom! The children had plenty of time to really dig into their works, and they loved it when they could take it home. A++
pickanother little tidbit from Chrysanthemum that I relate to 💕 going through all the children's books I got from the library. this was one I just LOVED!
