erin started reading Coping Skills by Faith G. Harper
my therapist says I need to learn some coping skills so here we are
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25% complete! erin has read 13 of 52 books.
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erin reviewed Adachi and Shimamura Vol. 3 by Non (Adachi and Shimamura, #3)
BE MINE, VALENTINE
It’s February 4th and Adachi has a question for Shimamura about Valentine’s …
cute, gay, and a very slow burn
5 stars
This volume continued to be cute and gay and the main characters continued to be hopeless.
I actually started this book right away when I finished volume 2 over a year ago, but it fell by the wayside. I picked it back up recently and it hooked me again, so I finally finished it. I can't wait to start Volume 4 after I get a bit more "serious" reading done.
erin finished reading Adachi and Shimamura Vol. 3 by Non (Adachi and Shimamura, #3)
Adachi and Shimamura Vol. 3 by Non, Hitoma Iruma, Molly Lee (Adachi and Shimamura, #3)
BE MINE, VALENTINE
It’s February 4th and Adachi has a question for Shimamura about Valentine’s Day—if, that is, she can …
erin reviewed Autism FAQ by Joe Biel
As good a place as any to start.
Maybe I'll change my mind in the future about this review. Maybe I'll hate this book after I've learned more. But before this I knew very little about autism and had never read the experiences of an autistic person from their perspective. And this book was short and accessible and cleared up several misconceptions in my brain. I feel like, after reading this, I have a better idea of how much I don't know about autism, as well as a sort of foundation of knowledge to build on. The structure of a FAQ allowed me to open it up to read one question and one answer at a time. Sometimes I only had 5 minutes, but even then I could make a little progress between things.
Jumping back and forth between Harper and Biel was a little disorienting at times, but I appreciated getting both the perspective of a therapist …
Maybe I'll change my mind in the future about this review. Maybe I'll hate this book after I've learned more. But before this I knew very little about autism and had never read the experiences of an autistic person from their perspective. And this book was short and accessible and cleared up several misconceptions in my brain. I feel like, after reading this, I have a better idea of how much I don't know about autism, as well as a sort of foundation of knowledge to build on. The structure of a FAQ allowed me to open it up to read one question and one answer at a time. Sometimes I only had 5 minutes, but even then I could make a little progress between things.
Jumping back and forth between Harper and Biel was a little disorienting at times, but I appreciated getting both the perspective of a therapist AND an autistic person.
I have a lot of reading to do, and this was as good a place to start as any.
erin rated Autism FAQ: 4 stars
erin finished reading Autism FAQ by Joe Biel
well I just learned a lot that I have to process
erin started reading Autism FAQ by Joe Biel
erin replied to masukomi (📚)'s status
@masukomi@bookwyrm.social I loved that dumb little book too! it was too cute and stupid and sweet for me to judge it harshly, and I'm pretty sure I read it in two sittings.
erin quoted S.C.U.M. manifesto by Valerie Solanas
A true community consists of individuals -- not mere species members, not couples -- respecting each others individuality and privacy, at the same time interacting with each other mentally and emotionally -- free spirits in relation to each other -- and cooperating with each other to achieve common ends.
— S.C.U.M. manifesto by Valerie Solanas (Page 16 - 17)
erin finished reading This Is Your Brain on Depression by Faith G. Harper
making an attempt to get better. I'm tired of being depressed.
erin finished reading Females by Andrea Long Chu (Verso Pamphlets)
Females by Andrea Long Chu (Verso Pamphlets)
Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that everyone wants to be a …
erin reviewed Females by Andrea Long Chu (Verso Pamphlets)
Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that …
I'm so female I'm subversive
5 stars
This book was absurd. Far more absurd than the blurb on the back led me to believe. I did not expect a book about Valerie Solanas when I picked it up. That was a surprise, and the good kind. I would recommend this book to anyone willing to talk seriously about absurd things and laugh at serious things. Someone for which gender is a mindfuck.
erin set a goal to read 52 books in 2024
erin quoted Females by Andrea Long Chu (Verso Pamphlets)
Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that …
I hated being a man, but I thought that was just how feminism felt. Being a man was my punishment for being a man. Anything else was greed.
— Females by Andrea Long Chu (Verso Pamphlets) (Page 51)
erin quoted Females by Andrea Long Chu (Verso Pamphlets)
Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that …
"Women ... don't have penis envy," Valerie fumes in SCUM. "Men have pussy envy." As usual she was right. Indeed, the castration complex is easily mistaken for the fear that one will be castrated; in fact, it is the fear that one, having been castrated, will like it.
— Females by Andrea Long Chu (Verso Pamphlets) (Page 25)