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How to Keep House While Drowning felt like a distilled therapy session about cleaning. I saw this recommended on fedi somewhere, and felt like this was useful for me to read right now. It's less "here's my life hack productivity advice for folding shirts" and more "here's some better ways to think about and emotionally approach taking care of yourself and your space". (Honestly, this is probably the more valuable thing.)

A bunch of thoughts I enjoyed that stuck with me: * cleaning is morally neutral * your space exists to serve you (do you hang clothes on a chair? if that works for you, then that's awesome) * interrogating preconceived notions of what cleaning looks like * prioritizing health > comfort > happiness in care tasks (and cutting out perfectionism saying you have to do all of these things all of the time) * balance in care tasks between people being less "am I contributing enough?" and more "am I taking advantage of someone else?"

Thus pretty sad and hard to read. I liked it a lot, even though some of the interactions seemed unrealistic to me in a way that the ghosts didn't.

It's not as cute as the first one (and I don't remember the second one), and somehow the heteronormativity comes through stronger. But I was happy enough.

That's a different Blackout than what I wanted to read, but I noticed a few hours in when it just refused to go to the expected direction so I guess that's the book I'm reading now!

It has its boring parts, it's hard to believe parts, it's predictable parts, it's too much parts, but I don't care, I like it. There's maps and map nerds.

I was wondering for a while if it'd go to a supernatural direction and whether I'd enjoy it more if it did or didn't. When I found out the way it went was fine with me :)

I like this a lot, but it did get more heavy than I expected. It starts out feeling like a "hah, these are tough housewives, of course they can defeat the vampire" story, but their own racism as well as their surroundings' sexism make everything go to a pretty tragic direction.

Ich würd nicht sagen, dass ich das Buch mag, aber ich mag einige Elemente davon und war am Ende ziemlich in der Geschichte drin.

Was ich mag: die KI, die Beziehungen, dass es ein wirklich detailliertes Gedankenexperiment ist.

Was ich nicht mag: Den Vibe? Die business-nerdigen Elemente? Das "es gibt genau eine Lösung und so sieht sie aus"? Ein paar Sachen, die ich nicht gut in Worte fassen kann, vor allem solche, die sich auf die aktuelle Realität beziehen.

Und von der MDMA-Dealer-Storyline war ich kein bisschen überzeugt. Bin jetzt allerdings neugierig, ob MDMA wirklich wie hier beschrieben verwendet wird in manchen Bubbles.