Going to the office more is helping me get thru more audiobooks these days. Small road trip this weekend will also help.
Today: Body in the Library. A Marple! Slightly better than a Poirot. Yesterdayâs was a Tommy and Tuppence.
Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities.
Not going to say I told you so, but I did so inform you thusly.
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Red Side Story â Jasper Fforde
been waiting for this one
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Death does that to a person.
Today: Towards Zero. Had read it. Am beginning to believe I truly have read all the Christieâs there are to read, I havenât come across one yet that is unfamiliar.
Yesterday: The Moving Finger. A Marple, but only barely.
Friday: Murder in Retrospect. A Poirot, but he was not overly present throughout it. A Poirot without Hastings is slightly better than one with.
Been waiting for this one. Didnât realize it was out.
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Finished Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Christine Criado Peréz.
Very informative. Thinking of counting it for my 1 hour of bias CPD. (It was, of course, much longer than 1 hour.)
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In which case you can count all of it. Thereâs no maximum on bias hours, just a minimum. Obviously it wouldnât count as Organized.
Just put a hold on that one on LibbyâŠshould be available by August!!
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You know youâre allowed to count more than one hourâŠ
(if itâs actuarial in nature)
Indeed, you can take all your CPD time in professionalism if you want (with 1 being bias-related).
Yeah, I just worried that some parts of the book were less applicable for CPD than others.
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Disappointing Affirmations by Dave Tarnowski. Took all of a few minutes.
Recently finished reading The Algebra of Happiness by Professor Scott Galloway. Lots of useful insights for me.
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I just finished The Story of English in 100 Words, by David Crystal â audiobook version
Most of the time, for audiobooks, itâs better to have someone other than the author read it, but thatâs not true here. Crystalâs attempts at American accents arenât too bad. He obviously made changes to adapt to audiobook format, and Iâm sure in the printed book he had certain elements to make pronunciation of certain words clear.
The words are taken, more or less, in chronological order of entrance into English (as best as we can reckon), and only one item I noticed (about passing the buck) was incorrect.
If youâre not good at listening to a British accent, you may have difficulty with the audiobook (I had to keep correcting what word I thought he was saying), and you will definitely have some trouble if you canât listen to somebody explicitly spelling out words at certain points. You may prefer the printed book.
I learned quite a bit.
Itâs a little dated, in that it was published in 2013, so when it gets closer to 21st century, you can tell itâs out of date.
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Finished Nabokovâs Pale Fire, Eric and Enide by ChrĂ©tien de Troyes, Palimpsest, Euripidesâ Children of Herakles, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. I started Endymion by Dan Simmons as well as Poor Things by Alisdair Gray (in addition to my other ongoing works).
Iâm at 41 completed works (16 are plays, and one is a shorter poem, so this isnât all novel length works) on the year to date. I might try to get that up to 45 in the next few days for an even 15 a month average, lol. Iâm about a third of the way through ChrĂ©tien de Troyesâs CligĂšs and still have a bunch of plays to read.
Today: The Hollow. I donât know that I had ever read this one before, it was not familiar. But unfortunately, it also was not very good.