Ruby Granger #35 Hello, it's Flu-bee!

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irunforfun

And it’s beetroot - it stains everything! I know it’s powder not fresh but it will still stain if not cleared up.
 
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Griftwood

I wonder if we’re getting a video this weekend, seeing as she already posted this week And will it be the ”January books review” one or the ”winter” one? Will she have finished skimmed through to the end of ”The Brothers KaramaTSov”? How exactly is she being the main character and romanticising this particular winter? Will she sit by an open window with her electric blanket? How many books will she have read JANUINELY IN THEIR ENTIRETY in the time I’ve managed to struggle through 1/4 of Special Operation & Peace, the first 16 chapters of Tristram Shandy, half of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, and the audiobook of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, where I may or may not have fallen asleep briefly just as a major plot point was unfolding?
 
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GreyColouredLens

According to her Goodreads, she's in half of Brothers Karamazov. I'm surprised she doesn't read faster though. But even if anyone called her out on it, she'd be like: sLOw ReaDinG, AnaLySis! But she's also read another children's book I really want to hear her talk about it. In Depth.

How are you liking War and Peace? Would you be willing to talk about it with me? It's a book that changed me and my life (along with The Deamons by Dostoyevsky), but I also realize how problematic Tolstoy was and I don't want to explain it all here...

Concerning myself, I read a lot of Turgenev in January, Foucault's Civilization and Madness and Orientalism by Edward Said. Yes and Lovers by Jelinek. (Hopefully Ruby doesn't read this thread as by now she's be able to tell who I am).
 
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Griftwood

I’m really, really loving W&P. I’m taking it kind of slow and making notes, there’s just so MUCH there. It’s relevant on so many levels (the early descriptions of Russian war propaganda/strategy were honestly sending me, it’s like nothing’s changed in 220 years) and Tolstoy just goes so ruthlessly, painfully close to real, raw human thinking and emotion. I feel like you could probably find some aspect or likeness of every single person you’ve ever known in this book - to me, right now at least (halfway through vol. 2), it’s the sheer scope of human experience that’s just so astounding. It took a little while to find my bearings, but now that I feel I have a grip on all the main characters, I’m super invested. Also I want to say I’m fully prepared to have my heart broken, but I also feel like it’s going to come out of nowhere and hit me hard when that eventually happens.

And to make this even a little relevant to a Roobee thread, I feel the need to state I did, in fact, first plod through the words on the pages of this book at age TWALVE, but I will not claim that I understood any of it
 
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StatusWoe

That's a point. Seeing as she doesn't use her real name for this CV, I wonder if she has a 'real' one that she keeps private. Maybe that's giving her too much credit.

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You know what would have been a better "eco move"? Not shredding a small tree and constantly sending bulky cardboard boxes full of free shit by mail to a wealthy influencer who can buy their own food.
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Beetroot leaves stains as well. They use it for dye.

Edit: @irunforfun got there first with the beetroot comment lol.
 
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Ceelea

*Applause*
 
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moosesauna

Thank you for this! I've been gradually working through some Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, aiming to read W&P this or next month as I finally feel I'll be able to concentrate on it, and this is making me excited to start reading :')
 
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xoxoxo13

How do you guys find time to read? Seriously, i wake up at 5, study German, because i want to move there next year. Get ready for work, go to work, come back, eat dinner, shower, text my boyfriend and then im exhausted and just go to sleep by 9pm. Either there arent enough hours in a day or i dont have enough energy. Im supposed to start working out next month, i dont know how i'll manage.
 
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pinkmug

I work 9-5 but I thankfully live close to work and I'm usually home by 5.30-5.40. Granted my schedules doesn't seem to be as busy as yours but I make use of the weekends, my lunch break at work and usually the time before bed. I'd have a lot more time to read if I didn't have brain fog at the end of the day and just killed time on the phone/watching youtube but some days are like that.

I don't personally like audiobooks and I can't read on my commute because I tend to walk, but people swear by it so you can try audiobooks during your commute? I don't know how much time you spend watchinf tv or on your phone for idle scrolling etc. but you can try to cut from that and read instead.

If not, don't beat yourself up about it, life sounds very busy for you at the moment and there is no shame in having little time to read. It doesn't have to be a big chunk of time, 10-15 minutes a day still adds up.
 
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StatusWoe

It sounds as though you have a busier than average schedule. 5 is an early start, so it's understandable you're tired! Do you have much time off at weekends?

I don't watch a lot of TV, so in the evenings I read or go online. My favourite time to read is at night when the house is quiet and there's no traffic outside. I don't read every day and sometimes it's only for short periods (e.g. 15 minutes). I'm also lucky that I don't have many commitments right now. When I was working full-time/studying full-time it was a lot harder.

As pinkmug said, don't be too hard on yourself for not finding the time to read. You seem to be doing loads.

I know it's off-topic but @Griftwood I love hearing your book thoughts & you should head over to the reading thread (if you want, no pressure )
 
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babygoats

That's a very toxic viewpoint you got there buddy, might want to unpack that. Not everything you do needs to be on a competition level. Even from people who DO compete, only a few will get extremely good results. And most world-class professionals have hobbies outside of their sport, musical instrument etc. to unwind.

In fact, the "filling up precious time" viewpoint might be exactly Ruby's attitude towards her hobbies, it fits the toxic productivity mindset perfectly well. And that might explain why her attitude towards her hobbies really is so weird - she doesn't seem to enjoy them too much or want to dedicate actual time and effort to do them well - FOR HER OWN SAKE, without external validation. Same goes for developing her video editing, cooking, sewing etc. skills. It's not "productive" on the first glance.

Edit: but also posts like the quoted one really pinpoint that she is losing even her brand of "18 hour productive study day" audience with whatever she is doing right now.
 
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theMoth

I mostly read before I go to sleep. I could read even more, because at the moment I have enough time. But I somehow spent too much time on the internet or feeling sorry for myself. I also started listening to audiobooks while knitting.
 
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moosesauna

i have no life Jokes aside I try to hide my phone for most of the day and set up time to read through the day. I tell myself to read 50 or so pages from whatever I'm reading, and I usually end up reading more than that! Picking books that engage you and not forcing yourself to finish stuff you're not enjoying helps a lot. When I had a part-time job and was working on my dissertation I had far less time to read, but I used books as a way to kill time when I was on breaks and commuting to uni or work.
The exhaustion does make it really hard to concentrate and sometimes it took me 2 weeks to finish a 200-page book - and i'm a fast reader! - but it feels so good to read that it was worth it for me. Try reading little bits as you're eating dinner or on the way to work (if you take pblic transport), though what works for some of us doesn't work for everyone and it sucks that it's so hard for people to fit their hobbies in with all of the stuff they *need* to do. Reading before bed can be a great way of relaxing and doesn't mess with your sleep schedule as much as doomscrolling does, so it's worth giving that a go on days you feel up for it.
 
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VallegGirl

Urgh. That Miss Patina dress and jumper combo is terrible. May be that's just because my primary school uniform was scarily similar
 
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Open-door

I got halfway through W & P during lock-down and then lost momentum. I'm feeling motivated to resume after reading your enthusiasm.
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Urgh. That Miss Patina dress and jumper combo is terrible. May be that's just because my primary school uniform was scarily similar
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Does poo coloured brown suit anyone?!
 
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