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[SweeneyxxTodd]

I got Orange (60%). My second highest match was Purple (45%).

I got 0% yellow lol. Idk what any of the other colors are about, but orange is absolutely accurate for me.

[Katia11]

yeah! it's just a fun little thing!

 

 

And yeah, I can see how that color would fit you! 

[Katia11]

I got yellow and that is definitely accurate for me.

 

*high fives*

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

What exactly is that quiz about? What color you are??

[Katia11]

It just basically gives you a color for your reading tastes.

I was both equally yellow and orange.

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

Oh, thanks for explaining, Katie! I might try that myself...

[Sanjana R]

This quiz was kind of fun. I got both yellow and orange, (like the scores were exactly the same) and yeahhh felt accurate

https://www.readyourcolor.com/

I am 65% blue and 60% purple!

[Katia11]

OOO NICE

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

I took it and found I'm a purple reader; my fave color, sweet!!!

[Katia11]

that's awesome!

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

Thanks! I bet that's cuz I'm more drawn to sci-fi, nonfiction science stuff(mostly astronomy/chemistry/physics/geology/the study of how things degrade over time, dunno the name for that one), and biographies of historical people I admire, as well as reading up on what life was like in different time periods... Not quite as drawn to drama or fantasy, as they might include elements that would easily scare the wits outta me or make me cry my eyes out, and same with horror(definitely not drawn to THAT category!!)... See what I mean there??

[Katia11]

I finished The Woman They Could Not Silence today… and wow.

It is about Elizabeth Packard who was unjustly placed into an asylum by her husband.

So much of it was very upsetting. The laws regarding married women at the time were absolutely gut churning and the things a woman could be committed for were absolutely trivial. (excessive novel reading as one example).

The head supervisor was absolutely scummy and I wanted to hit him. He overlooked abuse because “insane people couldn't be trusted” he betrayed Elizabeth MULIPLE times, he censored letters. Yet even though he was publicly outed and eventually was ousted from his post at that facility, he still maintained a thriving practice, eventually establishing his own hospital. Thriving until the point where he committed suicide.

Elizabeth was eventually able to prove that she was sane in front of a jury. She published several books and campaigned to try and get more protections for women who were going to be placed into these types of facilities.

Kate Moore also wrote the Radium Girls which I also really enjoyed. I should not have put this one off for so long.

I really want to read more books about all the women who fought for women’s rights. If anyone has any suggestions, I would love to hear them.

[Sanjana R]

I finished The Woman They Could Not Silence today… and wow.

It is about Elizabeth Packard who was unjustly placed into an asylum by her husband.

So much of it was very upsetting. The laws regarding married women at the time were absolutely gut churning and the things a woman could be committed for were absolutely trivial. (excessive novel reading as one example).

The head supervisor was absolutely scummy and I wanted to hit him. He overlooked abuse because “insane people couldn't be trusted” he betrayed Elizabeth MULIPLE times, he censored letters. Yet even though he was publicly outed and eventually was ousted from his post at that facility, he still maintained a thriving practice, eventually establishing his own hospital. Thriving until the point where he committed suicide.

Elizabeth was eventually able to prove that she was sane in front of a jury. She published several books and campaigned to try and get more protections for women who were going to be placed into these types of facilities.

Kate Moore also wrote the Radium Girls which I also really enjoyed. I should not have put this one off for so long.

I really want to read more books about all the women who fought for women’s rights. If anyone has any suggestions, I would love to hear them.

 

Wow, that is really horrendous she had to go through all that. 

 

It reminds me of a couple years ago when I was in my mini fixation on FLDS and Mormonism and I read all these memoirs about women who lived absolutely decrepit lives under Warren Jeffs out in Utah. (Rebecca Musser and Elissa Wall's memoirs mainly, they were sisters, and they both took him to court for everything he did to ruin their lives. They won. He ended up in jail for life)

 

Also, not exactly women's rights but similar story of woman overcoming a challenge is The Choice by Eva Edith Eger. It is a Holocaust memoir about a woman who was made to dance ballet to survive Auschwitz. It's so sad but very hopeful. 

[Sanjana R]

I am currently in a phase where I am reading a little bit of everything at once. 

 

200 pages into Don DeLillo's The Names, which is honestly weird, and I can't decide if I like it or not. 

 

200 pages into the bio of Albert Einstein but my science phase is kind of over for now. 

 

300 pages into The Last Tsar, which is without a doubt one of the the worst Romanov history books I've ever read. Author never heard of something called a. getting to the point, and b. not naming every person in Russia ever and confusing the reader lol. But I'm going to push through the last 100 pages so I can add this to my reading goal and see if there's anything of note I can learn, still. 

 

150p into Office Politics by Wilfrid Sheed and I'm quite disappointed. I picked this up bc I was intrigued by the title and cover but the story itself is SO boring. 

 

175p into The Patriot's Revolution: How Eastern Europe Toppled Communism and Won its Freedom. I really like this author's style of writing at some points. However, I'm starting to tire of this book. I want to be done with it, ugh. 

 

I need to finish ONE of these instead of playing Musical Chairs, book edition and reading 100 pages of 17 different titles lol

 

/rantover

[Katia11]

Wow, that is very impressive. I can't read more than one book at once unless they are different mediums (one audiobook and one physical etc).

[Sanjana R]

I am finally done with The Last Tsar by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. It was a 3 star read!

 

I did end up learning some new things I didn't know before: like, I had no idea that when Nicholas II was cornered into abdicating his throne on the imperial train back from Mogilev, he had no contact with anyone at all, incl. his brother Mikhail (who would have been his illegal successor). I also didn't know that he saw his mother one last time before the whole family was arrested and then sent into exile.

 

But the thing that broke my heart the most was his son, Aleksei, who had spent his whole life up to that point, thinking he would be Tsar one day in spite of his haemophilia, learning from his tutor that his father had abdicated for himself and for the tsarevitch. Aleksei, though only 12 years old, asked "What will happen to the country without a leader?" 

[Katia11]

Huh. Yeah! That is very interesting indeed!

Oh, that quote is sad.

[Sanjana R]

Ok, so I've moved on to my next book, Rasputin: The Saint who Sinned, and my mind has been blown since this morning when I learned that his daughter Maria survived the Russian Revolution, wrote 3 memoirs about her dad, joined the circus and moved to LA, where she died in 1979. That's wild to me. What a life she must have led. Wonder if she heard Boney M's song. It came out in 1978, one year before she died, lol.

[Katia11]

Oh, that is wild! I had no idea!

[Katia11]

I try not to post every time I read a new book, or I think this would be too lengthy, and I doubt many of you are interested in hearing me ramble. But yesterday, I finished A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennet on audioboook and I had SUCH a good time. I really need to read more books this way, I also really loved The Spirit Bares Its Teeth on audiobook. Clearly, this is a format I just devour.

 

BUT man... A Drop of Corruption... I could NOT stop listening. I binged the entire thing in one sitting. 

 

Basically, think Sherlock Holmes, but Sherlock is a woman named Ana and her assistant is named Din and it's set in a world where there are leviathans, huge beasts that rise from the water and attack. (So yeah, like that leviathan). The Empire takes parts of these leviathans to make augmentations, that allow people to have powers. Din has the ability to remember anything he sees, Ana is able to make deductions for similar reasons. This is just the tip of the iceberg. 

 

The magic in these is interesting, there is horror, and murder! And it's just a good time!