HeyJaredI Don't Hate It
Book and media recommendations (and more). Observational humor (YMMV). "I don't love it" means I hate it, but "I don't hate it" is as close as I get to love.
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Boring, Whiny, Aggressively Mid (opens the original)
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Hey there. I owe you a recap of what I read this summer, now that Labor Day is behind us. I’ve used the open book emoji to indicate when I read something in hard/paperback and the headphone emoji to indicate when I listened to the audiobook.Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book 📖 This slim volume was a selection of my book club, for which I am forever grateful. It’s a delightful story of a little girl and her grandmother spending the summer on a small island in the Gulf of Finland. (Translated from Swe
Oh, Dolly 😭 (opens the original)
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Hey there. I trust by now you’ve heard the news that Dolly Parton died yesterday, at eighty. And Tim Curry died, also eighty. (You aren’t alone in thinking, That’s the wrong eighty-year-old.) Lyz Lenz wrote the most comprehensive post I’ve seen about Dolly, including links to other pieces on the icon. Read it <a href="https
Donuts for Everyone (opens the original)
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Hey there. Today would have been Audrey’s forty-sixth birthday. I’m writing this on the sofa in my office with my fluffy dog next to me and I know that she would want to be writing on a sofa with a fluffy dog next to her. It isn’t lost on me that Osito is the first dog I’ve had that Audrey didn’t know. He’s my velcro dog but he would have loved her even more.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Az2m!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/ht
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