Looking them over, it seems that a lot of the Reader items that I starred this past week were either for my own reference or of relatively narrow interest (that is, maybe three people besides me), but I’ve found a few things to share, even so.
New to Google Reader this week
Mad Marriage: Confessions of Marriage and Motherhood, via SoCal Mom
Bad Advice, via The Anti-9-to-5 Guide
Cats & Crime & Rock & Roll, a blog by author Clea Simon, via Musings of a Bookish Kitty. She writes a series I want to check out when my Lenten observance of “no book buying” is over.
Books and entertainment
If I want to try something out of my reading comfort zone, Literary Feline’s review of Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace suggests a possible candidate. Dewey‘s posting of her reading-journal entry on The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen jogged my memory of what it was about and why I wanted to read it in the first place; it’s one of those books that’s been languishing in TBR purgatory for an embarrassingly long time.
Personal Milestones
Happy anniversary to Mme. et M. Meow, and happy birthday to Bubandpie!
Life and Work
I confess to not having read all of this article yet, but it’s generating some strong response and discussion about “settling” in relationships – the author’s suggesting it sounds worse than it is. I’m not sure she’s entirely wrong, but it depends on how you look at the concept, I suppose. Maybe it’s more of a question of making your relationship expectations less idealistic and more realistic, and maybe one’s more likely to embrace that concept as one gets older, and view it more positively.
Links to links here – spending more when you’re unhappy, but doing less of the spending on credit. There’s probably some vicious-circle action going on here; could your debt/financial situation make you unhappy enough that you engage in retail therapy to try to feel better, but that ends up adding to your debt and making you feel worse?
The Work It, Dad! blog at WIM hit one of my favorite ranting topics this week, and it was interesting to read a perspective on twentysomethings delaying adulthood from someone only a few years older. Also at WIM, we talked about how some things either don’t change, or people didn’t get the memo that they actually did.
Sometimes good enough really is good enough.
“Super Tuesday” stirred up a lot of blogtastic political discussion, including comments from an overlooked constituency – the nerd vote.
Happy Sunday, Florinda! I am going to have to save this post for later and check out the links at my leisure. I can already tell there’s several I definitely need to follow up on.
If you do decide to read Tokyo Year Zero, I hope you will like it.
Have a great week!
Literary Feline – I’d be interested in knowing which links interested you, Wendy.