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12 years ago @ The Toast - A Veterinarian Would L... · 1 reply · +5 points

At what point should you start feeding your dog senior food? We do not know the exact age of our 75 lb Rhodesian Ridgeback mix but he is no younger than 7 years old. Do we wait until he shows more signs of aging besides gray hair? Is it only necessary if he starts having problems with eating?

12 years ago @ The Toast - What Happens When You ... · 3 replies · +1 points

Eek, I am so bad at articulating what I like and didn't like about a book which is why I never write reviews in Goodreads and only do the star ratings. Hopefully someone can come to my rescue and say what they like about the authors since I started reading each of them based on either Nicole's recommendations on The Hairpin or other commenters raving about them.

For her mysteries, Kate Atkinson has the Jackson Brodie series. Case Histories is the first one and what I liked about it is that there were 3 different mysteries going on in the book. I think what I like best about Kate Atkinson is that her plots and narrative don't really follow a straight line (well, in Life After Life and Case Histories) but it doesn't get too complex to follow. Just sort of mixes it up from the norm.

For PD James, I just finished Death Comes to Pemberley. It was written as a sequel to Pride and Prejudice but with a murder mystery. I actually think calling it a "murder mystery" is a bit misleading because the majority of the book revolved around the murder trial than the unraveling of a mystery. Basically, I was picturing Elizabeth Darcy acting as Nancy Drew but the book was more Mr. Darcy experiencing an episode of Law and Order. So I would only recommend that one if you would like to read well written P&P fanfic.

12 years ago @ The Toast - What Happens When You ... · 0 replies · +2 points

Oh yeah, I definitely don't think this should be required of everyone so hopefully I didn't sound too pushy! Just thought I'd share some alternatives I've been considering for myself if you were interested in trying the challenge.

12 years ago @ The Toast - What Happens When You ... · 3 replies · +3 points

Are you worried about re-reading your favorite male authors in the next year or about reading books in the series you haven't read yet? I switched to an only female author diet last summer with the goal to just finish out 2013 and I'm trying to decide if I want to keep it going for a full year or not. Because I have so many women on my to-read list that I'm excited about - so it makes it pretty easy if you think about the fact that you can read the male authors after you're done with the challenge. The part that is making me hesitate is that I just read The Eyre Affair before switching and I want to keep reading the series. So I'm considering doing 2014 as all female authors with exceptions for series written by men I've already started and I know they have interesting female characters.

I also buy way too many used books that sit unread and luckily most of them happen to be by women, I may make the other exception that I can only read male authors this year if I already own their book.

Also, I'm only starting to dip my toes into fantasy/scifi so I can only speak to mysteries. Kate Atkinson and P.D. James, who I came to by way of Nicole's book recs, are quite good. Kate Atkinson's newest book, Life After Life, is actually a historical fantasy and has become my favorite book to recommend to people.

12 years ago @ The Toast - What Happens When You ... · 7 replies · +5 points

After reading two male mystery writers back to back last August and just feeling so frustrated by each author's treatment of women characters, I decided to finish out the year by only reading books by women (with one exception, David Sedaris's Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls came up from the library after I had it on hold for awhile so I read/listened to the audiobook.)

For those contemplating this challenge but are unsure if they can do it, I think it would be a great baby step to just start with a certain genre. Out of habit/what's available at the used bookstore/what books were hyped, I kept picking up contemporary mysteries by men and the switch over prompted me to finally read Sayers, Christie, P.D. James, and more Kate Atkinson.

Also, I read The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes which oddly, I came by after reading A Moveable Feast. Never thought Hemingway would be the one to point me to a woman author I should read.

12 years ago @ The Toast - What Happens When You ... · 1 reply · +15 points

Right? I started trying to make something out of the Margaret Atwood comment but it's so not worth the mental energy.

Also, the last comment:

"GO WRITE A BOOK I’D LIKE :D"

I guess maybe he thought he was being flirty by saying that but that statement had me seeing more flames than any other statement. There is just so much wrong packed into that one tiny little statement. But I really appreciated reading this blog post overall, thanks for sharing!

12 years ago @ The Toast - Shirley Jackson Review... · 1 reply · +4 points

Yes, I think it's Pillar of Salt which is in The Lottery and Other Stories.

12 years ago @ The Toast - Name That Movie! · 2 replies · +3 points

This is one that I'm not sure if I dreamed. It was an episode of TV and I think it was on one of the shows in the TGIF block. I'm fairly certain it was for Halloween and the premise of the show was basically Hotel California. They go into a hotel and are told they can never leave but I don't remember how it ended.

12 years ago @ The Toast - Hey, Ladies: Halloween... · 2 replies · +57 points

I'm crossing my fingers so hard that all the late periods mean that the next installment will be planning for a baby shower.

12 years ago @ The Toast - Talking About Pass... · 0 replies · +3 points

"It was that smile that maddened Irene. She ran across the room, her terror tinged with ferocity, and laid a hand on Clare's bare arm."

This description made me sure that everyone would know that Irene had pushed Clare because I pictured her as a bit of a charging bull but I suppose it could've been interpreted by others that she had rushed to Clare to protect her.

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