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Trying to find a better way to track books I want to read than a random spreadsheet. I had used readinglog.info which was provided by my local public library until they shut down the program. Luckily, I regularly backed it up via their CSV export. I've used Library Thing for years, but adding books for "To Read" really screwed up a lot of the other features of the website, like recommendations, etc. I really love Free Software & the Fediverse particularly. My primary social media account is on Friendica @fu@libranet.de
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2026 Reading Goal
70% complete! Ji FU has read 28 of 40 books.
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Ji FU wants to read From Poverty to Prosperity by Arnold S. Kling
The discipline of economics is not what it used to be. Over the last few …
Ji FU commented on Armada by Ernest Cline
It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring …
I've only got like 2 CDs left and it really feels like it is not going anywhere. The ending is going to make or break it.
I've only got like 2 CDs left and it really feels like it is not going anywhere. The ending is going to make or break it.
Ji FU quoted I Hate You—Don't Leave Me by Jerold J. Kreisman
"AM I LOSING MY MIND?"
People with Borderline Personality Disorder experience such violent and …
"SET"–Support Empathy Truth—is a three-part system of communication. During confrontations of destructive behaviour, important decision-making sessions, or other crises, interactions with the borderline should invoke all three of these elements. ... "Support," invokes a personal statement of concern. " I am sincerely worried about how you are feeling. . . ." "Empathy" attempt to acknowledge the borderline's chaotic feelings: "How awful you must be feeling" ... "Truth"...should be expressed in matter-of-fact, neutral fashion ("Here's what happened. . . . These are the consequences. . . . This is what I can do. . . . What are you going to do?")
— I Hate You—Don't Leave Me by Jerold J. Kreisman (Page 100 - 101)
Ji FU replied to Simon Carpentier's status
@scarpentier lol
One summer weekend in 1949—but not our 1949—the well-connected "Farthing set", a group of upper-crust …
The library canceled my request for The Batman Murders so this was the next one in my library book queue.
Ji FU rated Syrup: A Novel: 5 stars
Syrup: A Novel by Max Barry
When Scat comes up with the idea for the hottest new soda ever, he's sure he'll retire the next rich, …
Ji FU reviewed Syrup: A Novel by Max Barry
When Scat comes up with the idea for the hottest new soda ever, he's sure …
Way better than the movie
5 stars
I really really liked Syrup. I finished in only 3 days, but it wasn't as long as the 294 pages would lead you to believe what with huge margins and so many stylized paragraph headers. Maxx Barry's style of corporate humor started here, and backstabbing, and is it romance is it not, kept it moving. I never thought advertising could be anything but soul crushing. He even did a great job at portraying the nerds in editing, and the artists in film.
After reading Syrup I tried watching the movie but I turned it off not even half-way as it was so bad. Maybe having it not be Coke in the film made that much different? It just seemed weak sauce. So read this one and keep the DVD on the shelf.
I really really liked Syrup. I finished in only 3 days, but it wasn't as long as the 294 pages would lead you to believe what with huge margins and so many stylized paragraph headers. Maxx Barry's style of corporate humor started here, and backstabbing, and is it romance is it not, kept it moving. I never thought advertising could be anything but soul crushing. He even did a great job at portraying the nerds in editing, and the artists in film.
After reading Syrup I tried watching the movie but I turned it off not even half-way as it was so bad. Maybe having it not be Coke in the film made that much different? It just seemed weak sauce. So read this one and keep the DVD on the shelf.
Ji FU wants to read Making It So by Patrick Stewart
From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work in the Star Trek and …
On hold at the public library
Ji FU wants to read The Great Brain by John Dennis Fitzgerald
The Great Brain is Tom D. Fitzgerald, aged ten. The story is told by J.D., …
On hold at the public library
Ji FU started reading Six Tires, No Plan by Michael Rosenbaum
Six Tires, No Plan by Michael Rosenbaum
Most Unlikely to Succeed
No one who charted Bruce Halle’s early years would predict that the poor kid from …
Ji FU commented on The Batman Murders by Craig Shaw Gardner
A banker, missing for months, finally turns up dead - wearing the unique costume of …
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Ji FU started reading Syrup: A Novel by Max Barry
Syrup: A Novel by Max Barry
When Scat comes up with the idea for the hottest new soda ever, he's sure he'll retire the next rich, …
Ji FU started reading Armada by Ernest Cline
It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring …
Only through disc 1 and already loving it like Ready Player One.
Ji FU reviewed Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - published in 1719 - was …
18th century Christian Fiction
4 stars
I really liked Robinson Crusoe. Much more than I expected to. It had a much deeper spiritual component that I had not expected, though maybe religion was just always part of life for Europeans of the 1700s. Robin(son) was a disobedient young man, even if "a good guy" in the eyes of the world. When he was shipwrecked and landed on his island of despair he went from not caring about Religion, to being mad at God, to knowing God never existed, to praying for his needs, to celebrating a sabbath, to being thankful that he had survived, to actually reading his Bible, to a true personal relationship with Jesus to bringing the only man he met to the same, and struggling how to live as a Christian in the world God put him.
At one time I thought it may have been the best Christian Fiction I ever …
I really liked Robinson Crusoe. Much more than I expected to. It had a much deeper spiritual component that I had not expected, though maybe religion was just always part of life for Europeans of the 1700s. Robin(son) was a disobedient young man, even if "a good guy" in the eyes of the world. When he was shipwrecked and landed on his island of despair he went from not caring about Religion, to being mad at God, to knowing God never existed, to praying for his needs, to celebrating a sabbath, to being thankful that he had survived, to actually reading his Bible, to a true personal relationship with Jesus to bringing the only man he met to the same, and struggling how to live as a Christian in the world God put him.
At one time I thought it may have been the best Christian Fiction I ever read, it felt so much more real than dumb stories like the Left Behind series or radicicolous stories like the Amish Romance series, until the last third or so of the book when it got kind of racist and violent, and adamantly anti-Catholic. While there are many racist and violent people who call themselves Christians now-a-days I don't believe that was ever the plan of the prince of peace, and the Catholic Church is the Church He founded.
But even with all I am amazed how much Defoe kept me "turning the pages" of my audio book in a very interesting story, told almost completely without any additional characters. I have a hard time believing the claim that this was the first ever English novel, but it would make sense why all of the older stuff we read in school were plays (which were meant to be seen not read) and not novels.