Lovely, Laura!

I am reading or watching very little challenging material right now. Bingeing on the Great Australian Bake Off (via the bay of pirates); reading a lot of fic; reading the Maisie Dobbs novels as I can get them from the library. I'm listening to political/legal podcasts, but they are not soothing: Amicus from Slate, hosted by Dahlia LIthwick (national treasure) has had a 4-part series about the threat to the 2020 election from dirty tricks, hacking, voter suppression, and the like. It's pretty grim.

Still trying to get enough exercise, though, so the dog and I just had a nice walk in the neighborhood, and I did a little yoga.

My reaction to FB and Twitter has been to withdraw further into my GenX "whatever, dude" feelings more often than not.

My current TV watching is Stumptown (I love this show a little more with each episode) and Veronica Mars (which is actually new to me). I actually went looking for the Stumptown comic book on a dinner break last week but only Volume 3 was in stock.

A little while ago I learned of the existence of Silent Book Clubs and actually found one near me but so far they've been scheduled when I'm in tech. I'd like to have a occasional event to go to outside of work.

Stumptown has really grown on me. I was lukewarm on it when it started, but it keeps getting better.

We started doing Silent Book Club at my library in January. The first meeting overflowed the room planned for it. 48 people came. To a restaurant to sit and read quietly near others.

4-part series about the threat to the 2020 election from dirty tricks, hacking, voter suppression, and the like.

I do try and stay informed, but it is really depressing and discouraging. Rather than throw $ candidates I am focused more on the anti-suppression efforts.

My current TV watching is Stumptown

Oh, I forgot about that one. We enjoyed the first couple episodes but haven't gotten back to it.

Silent Book Club sounds fascinating. Bet there is such a thing around here.... eta: and it is in Lake Worth Beach. Woo!

We started doing Silent Book Club at my library in January. The first meeting overflowed the room planned for it. 48 people came. To a restaurant to sit and read quietly near others.

The Bindery has regular Silent Book Club (with cocktails), often hosted by Daniel Handler. That is he welcomes everybody, gives a brief 10-15 talk on a subject of interest and then everybody is released to their books and drinks.

to sit and read quietly near others.

In high school we had one of these whenever a P.E. teacher had to cover an English class for the day.

Every library is a silent book club?

Timelies all!

Having a bit of a trying day with Mr. S. Currently in the kids programming space, where he is making "projects" by cutting up paper, yarn and other supplies, then gluing things to other things.

silent book club sounds awesome. Especially at a restaurant where there is presumably food and beverages, unlike at the library. If I'm going to settle in for a long read there must be snacks and tea.