cedence's reviews
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"How to keep a house while drowning" offers options on how to view and navigate household tasks while struggling. Some may work for you, some may not - but the point is to find something that keeps you floating and to accept that "good" is usually enough. You don't need the picture-perfect.

Funnily enough, some of the ways to manage household tasks are already some I use from trial an error. For example, I prefer having a day of the week dedicated to certain tasks, and I do not function with "clean as you go" (too exhausting on so may levels). To have a plan is something that often help me and surely something I will take more serious when I get my own place. 

If you need a household cleaning system that is adaptable to your needs and want you to suceed, this book is for you.

This book is for us people pleasers. The I will rather choke in silence than bother someone ; the I will neglect myself to see others fed-people. I feel seen in the main character even if I lack her academic prestige. It was nice to have a influence for a little while that it's okay to take up space, be direct, confront, swear, party and not fold to other people's needs all the time. A balm to my bones.

This is a fast read and it is intense. As a academic rivals enemies-to-lovers it has a lot of bickering, and throwing insults at each other. If can become tiresome and I wish we had even more time to slow down here and there, but it also kept the story moving. 

It was fun. Entertaining. A easy read. Some of what I've e needed to read for a while. When I am ready for another romance, I'll pick up her new adult romantasy, I think. 

PS, the cyber security lady... She had a day (tm). 

I am still trying but I need a fast pace. May try to read The Girl In the tower instead. 

Yes. Learn from different genres to improve your own writing in your genre(s). Invaluable! 

My favorite book so far on how to write scenes, differnt types of scenes and what the should include, some of how they typically are built, and how some scenes fit with different story beats.

I tried reading this book when it first released, but my brain was exhausted by uni, I found no space or enjoyment in reading. Later, I tried the audiobook, and it just didn't hook me. Now, I just stare at it. 

While I understand that many find this to be an extremely good book and I believe it likely have something to tell if I only was able to read it, I now know that's very unlikely to happen in any forseeable future. 

As with many DA\Academia books, the slow pacing is boring me. Fast. The descriptions are too many and I don't care enough for the characters despite how well theme and goals has been stated in the early chapters. The way I would have to read this book - in sips and pieces - to stay focused and enjoy it would take me months, only a few pages at a time, and I'm not up for that.

Maybe it will come back to me in the future, but this read has defeated me as of right now.

Flux Forlag sendte meg et leseeksemplar av “Drepende Kledelig” av Niels Christian Geelmuyden for å lese og anmelde 💚 Nå har jeg lest boka. 

Dette er en bok jeg ønsker jeg hadde da jeg først begynte å lære om moteindustrien i 2019. Den dekker mye av det som har kommet opp i løpet av årene og mange av aspekente man bør vite litt om for å få et mer helhetlig bilde av en såpass omfattende industri - og ikke minst, hva betyr dette for meg som forbruker i praksis når jeg handler, bruker/vasker og tar være på klærne jeg har? 

Tenker du at du ikke vet nok om klesproduksjon til å ta bevisste valg om hva du bør kjøpe/unngå ved tanke på helse, miljø, dyr eller klima? Da kan denne boken være et dypdykk av et første steg inn i denne verdenen av literatur. 

“Drepende Kledelig” vil nemlig tilby deg historiske innblikk, de siste tiårets mediabilde omkring moteindustrien, fordeler og ulemper med ulike fiber (syntetisk, naturlig, viskose), tilsetningsstoffer og tips på hva som kan være gode valg for å redusere eksponering til ulike stoffer og ta bedre valg for deg selv som forbruker.

Og ikke minst ✨PÅ NORSK✨. Fram til nå har man stort sett måtte forholde seg til engelsk for å sette seg inn i tematikken. Jeg er derfor veldig glad for at denne boken kommer til å gjøre infoen mer tilgjengelig for de som ikke er like stødige på engelsk. Eller rett og slett ikke har tid eller energi til å lese seg opp på egenhånd. 

Jeg likte boken veldig godt, og lærte noe nytt. For meg var det fiber og tilsetningsstoffer som interesserte meg mest i utgangspunktet og der fant jeg noen nytt å vurdere. Overrasket ble jeg også over kapittelet om framtiden. Der får man noen innblikk i teknologier og nyvinninger som kan komme å prege moteindustrien i framtiden, f.eks. Automatisering, noe som var spennende å lære mer om. Vi hører ofte om det dårlige, så det var fint med noen mer optimistiske nyheter også. 

Fra meg blir det 5/5 ⭐

Anbefaler boka videre til andre som er interessert i å lære om moteindustrien, fiber eller kjemikaler som ofte inngår i ulike klær

 

A essential read to understand how yoga is a practice with deep historical and cultural roots; offers teachings far beyond the asanas (poses); and continue to be a practice towards global justice and unity. 

If you want to avoid cultural appropriation, and instead learn to properly honor the lineage and culture you may be participating in, this book is a good first step.

I posponed reading this one earlier this year because I presumed it didn't tell me something I already knew. And while I have read quite a lot about asexuality at this point, it had three scenes that I really needed to read for myself. I needed someone telling me that and I didn't know I needed it.

Maybe I'll add a more detailed review later. Bye for now.

A welcomed story about how sexual incompatability is a valid reason for not continuing a relationship, and how other people struggled to view a relationship when physical intimacy isn't in the picture. Featuring a main aroace man and a allosexual woman.

I liked it. i think it did what it set out to do. I like reading queerplatonic stories, and how many different ways people can love each other and form relationships - even when love alone isn't enough to make it last in the end beyond platonic. We really need more stories where love takes different shapes and breaks off for totally valid reasons that society don't want to normalize!!

Notes:
* They kiss once (aroace character clearly pushing down their discomfort,

and it breaks them up

)


mini-summary of plot:

A short manga about a sex-repulsed asexual man who gets in a relationship with a allosexual woman that loves him enough to pursue a relationship with him on his conditions. Other people question how it is a relationship when they don't "do anything." Ultimately, they come to the conclusion that they are not sexually compatible (valid) and break up.