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The first 3 of the December Posting meme.
What games are you playing?
So: Here is the thing about me and games -- there are lots of games I WANT to be playing and cannot for various reasons. All of this would be an enormously long list! It's largely because of not having the requisite platform (I have no game system - though we're looking at getting a PS4 - and use a Mac so 90% of what's on Steam or available for PC is only available for, well, PC … or is glitchy AF like The Sims).
The only thing I am really doing a lot of playing is Project Highrise, a mobile game that actually makes you pay for it once rather than being freemium. I was a huge Sim Tower dork, and this is basically that! The only thing I really wish were that I could play it on a screen larger than my phone's; it is hard for me to see what I'm doing.
I think it might also be available for iOS, so once I manage to upgrade my iPad to the 10" Pro with a cellular card (this is the dream, so I can stop using an actual phone most of the time - I like not being reachable and want to not carry my phone everywhere, I use my phone as a combination minitablet and camera and that's all, plus my phone screen is so very very hard for me to read) I will get another copy of it. It has some DLC but is mostly great and enjoyable right for the upfront cost of $5, and even though everything is teeny tiny, it's entertaining me for now!
ETA-ish: (because I edited this in after I first started writing this, but not when I posted it) Oh my gosh it is available for Mac on Steam, who wants to give me $20 in Steam credit so I can have this!!!
Do you reread books? Why/why not?
Usually!
I reread books for fun if I enjoyed them and found them relatively low-stress; there are books I absolutely adored, like Tess Gerriten's The Sinner, which I will NOT reread because I hated a specific character who never appears again enough that it makes me twitch upon reread. Things that gave me nightmares also do not get rereads even though I loved them. Things that made me cry in public like Raven Stratagem will probably be reread someday but I need a long break from it.
Currently I'm binging a 1-5 boxed set of J. D. Robb's In Death series because it is just easy reading stress relief 'something to fill my head' rereading, and I also don't remember much of anything about it. I've read the Dragon Blood series by Lindsay Buroker a bunch of times, and have probably read the first four Kay Scarpetta books (Patricia Cornwell) a bunch of times plus the first five books by Kathy Reichs enough times the books don't hold together. Everything Michael Palmer has ever written (besides the Lou Welcome series because I never read those - for some reason I was just never drawn to them) gets reread just about yearly because they're my ultimate comfort reads.
I guess the tl;dr is that the why: if I found it enjoyable and comforting-but-still-engaging more than stressful or sad, and the why not: is if there are things that stood out as twitch-making enough about it that even if I liked it I wouldn't go back to it again.
Tell me about your favorite poem. if you have a Variety pls tell me about many of them.
I do in fact have a number of them; you could pick the entire body of Teasdale or cummings and say those were my favorites and you'd be right, but you could also pick my childhood favorite book of poems by Jean Little (Hey World, Here I Am!) and be right. But if I have to pick two, one of them is simply this:Mean, median, mode
What’s an average to do?
Ask the data
which is from The Tao of Statistics by a friend of my dad's, Dana Keller. I have an autographed copy. It's an absolutely wonderful book! My father was also a talented haikuist, but unfortunately I have lost all of the ones he wrote in various letters to me while I was away at camp. :(
Someday I'll find them all and publish them, and then I'm sure my dad's work will be my favorite. Instead, here also is one by my dad's mother:There once was a man named Meyer [ed. note: this is my grandfather's middle name]
Who had only one burning desire
To take off his socks
And walk on hot rocks
And boy did Meyer perspire
which is, well, just a magical limmerick.
For my first poem that I ever loved? It would be one that I first learned about in a favorite book when I was about nine, Sylvia Waugh's Mennyms in the Wildnerness. The poem is The Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats, and it was also the very first thing I can remember memorizing besides a picture book.
I am not the best at saying WHY I like poems. But these are poems I like most of all.
So: Here is the thing about me and games -- there are lots of games I WANT to be playing and cannot for various reasons. All of this would be an enormously long list! It's largely because of not having the requisite platform (I have no game system - though we're looking at getting a PS4 - and use a Mac so 90% of what's on Steam or available for PC is only available for, well, PC … or is glitchy AF like The Sims).
The only thing I am really doing a lot of playing is Project Highrise, a mobile game that actually makes you pay for it once rather than being freemium. I was a huge Sim Tower dork, and this is basically that! The only thing I really wish were that I could play it on a screen larger than my phone's; it is hard for me to see what I'm doing.
I think it might also be available for iOS, so once I manage to upgrade my iPad to the 10" Pro with a cellular card (this is the dream, so I can stop using an actual phone most of the time - I like not being reachable and want to not carry my phone everywhere, I use my phone as a combination minitablet and camera and that's all, plus my phone screen is so very very hard for me to read) I will get another copy of it. It has some DLC but is mostly great and enjoyable right for the upfront cost of $5, and even though everything is teeny tiny, it's entertaining me for now!
ETA-ish: (because I edited this in after I first started writing this, but not when I posted it) Oh my gosh it is available for Mac on Steam, who wants to give me $20 in Steam credit so I can have this!!!
Do you reread books? Why/why not?
Usually!
I reread books for fun if I enjoyed them and found them relatively low-stress; there are books I absolutely adored, like Tess Gerriten's The Sinner, which I will NOT reread because I hated a specific character who never appears again enough that it makes me twitch upon reread. Things that gave me nightmares also do not get rereads even though I loved them. Things that made me cry in public like Raven Stratagem will probably be reread someday but I need a long break from it.
Currently I'm binging a 1-5 boxed set of J. D. Robb's In Death series because it is just easy reading stress relief 'something to fill my head' rereading, and I also don't remember much of anything about it. I've read the Dragon Blood series by Lindsay Buroker a bunch of times, and have probably read the first four Kay Scarpetta books (Patricia Cornwell) a bunch of times plus the first five books by Kathy Reichs enough times the books don't hold together. Everything Michael Palmer has ever written (besides the Lou Welcome series because I never read those - for some reason I was just never drawn to them) gets reread just about yearly because they're my ultimate comfort reads.
I guess the tl;dr is that the why: if I found it enjoyable and comforting-but-still-engaging more than stressful or sad, and the why not: is if there are things that stood out as twitch-making enough about it that even if I liked it I wouldn't go back to it again.
Tell me about your favorite poem. if you have a Variety pls tell me about many of them.
I do in fact have a number of them; you could pick the entire body of Teasdale or cummings and say those were my favorites and you'd be right, but you could also pick my childhood favorite book of poems by Jean Little (Hey World, Here I Am!) and be right. But if I have to pick two, one of them is simply this:
What’s an average to do?
Ask the data
which is from The Tao of Statistics by a friend of my dad's, Dana Keller. I have an autographed copy. It's an absolutely wonderful book! My father was also a talented haikuist, but unfortunately I have lost all of the ones he wrote in various letters to me while I was away at camp. :(
Someday I'll find them all and publish them, and then I'm sure my dad's work will be my favorite. Instead, here also is one by my dad's mother:
Who had only one burning desire
To take off his socks
And walk on hot rocks
And boy did Meyer perspire
which is, well, just a magical limmerick.
For my first poem that I ever loved? It would be one that I first learned about in a favorite book when I was about nine, Sylvia Waugh's Mennyms in the Wildnerness. The poem is The Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats, and it was also the very first thing I can remember memorizing besides a picture book.
I am not the best at saying WHY I like poems. But these are poems I like most of all.
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I also re-read books for the comfort-I'm always torn between re-reading and working on my ever growing TBR.
Poetry is one of the things I'd like to explore next year. I can't say I have a favorite poem but I don't have a lot of knowledge of poetry either. Planning on working through a few lists next year.