My kiddo and I are having a fruit and vegetable challenge. Each month we’ll seek out a fruit or vegetable we’ve never tried and taste it. My BFF is trying to walk all the greenways in our county (that is county not country, low stakes! Attainabl!). How about you?
I used to read all the time, now I almost never read anything.
So this year I’m resolving to read one book, any book, then I’ll move foward from there.
After Reddit shut off 3rd party apps, I came here and resolved to read more. In the previous decade I had read maybe 2 books. I think your resolution is achievable but i would make it ridiculously achievable of reading like 1 min a day.
The habit of reading is what you want and the books will come after that and chances are you will read much longer. Don’t read anything you “should” be reading. Get a “popcorn flick” equivalent that you interests you and isn’t challenging.
Here is what I have read since June.
Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel
Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Shogun by James Clavell
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Wool by Hugh Howey
Shift by Hugh Howey
Dust by Hugh Howey
Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
(Reading) A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
I’d recommend getting into Asimov’s Foundation series. I, Robot is kind of a meh book from him, Imo (I’ve read all his fiction work)
Also take a look at Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park) and Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey).
I’d also recommend Heinlein, but his books do get pretty “pervy misogynistic old man harem fantasies” in his later years.
Great recommendations. I want to read the foundation series, I’m enjoying the show, but the wait time on Libby is really long. Michael Crichton is one of my favorite authors. I do need to read some of Clarke’s books but it almost suffers from “classical” must read avoidance I have lol
If Asimov’s Robots series has a shorter/no wait I think they’re worth reading. Maybe not as exciting as the Empire and Foundation series, but it’s interesting background- the evolution of robots, positronic brains, robot/human relations, jump ships, space colonization, human clones. Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun and Robots of Dawn are murder mystery detective stories that advance the robot plot.
Asimov recommended reading his books in this order:
The Complete Robot (1982) and/or I, Robot (1950)
Caves of Steel (1954)
The Naked Sun (1957)
The Robots of Dawn (1983)
Robots and Empire (1985)
The Currents of Space (1952)
The Stars, Like Dust (1951)
Pebble in the Sky (1950)
Prelude to Foundation (1988)
Note: Forward the Foundation (1993) was then unpublished, but would have followed Prelude.
Foundation (1951)
Foundation and Empire (1952)
Second Foundation (1953)
Foundation’s Edge (1982)
Foundation and Earth (1986)
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I appreciate the recommendation and listing them out! That is actually helpful as I don’t like searching up which book is next.
If you aren’t already in it, it sounds like you belong in the sci-fi community on Lemmy.world, some of those were books of the month recently.
I am and that’s why I read the books. I do need to get better about going into particular communities to help drive their growth.
A link for the lazy?
https://lemmy.world/c/sciencefiction
Let’s see if this works: c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world
Thanks!
You betcha, friend.
The Wool trio by Hugh Howey is a banger! I actually just finished Shift yesterday, and I’m gonna borrow Dust from a library tomorrow.
If you are in Canada or the US I can’t recommend the Libby app highly enough - books, audiobooks and magazines borrowed to your devices from your local Library. Looking at the last 5 years of borrowing it has saved me (pirating probably) thousands of dollars of audiobooks, and having an endless supply of audiobooks with zero cost really encourages reading.
I did this in 2021. This year I consumed 13 books (7 audio, 6 paper). Wishing you and your love for reading the best!
I recommend finding a movie you love that was a book first and reading it. I’m an extremely picky reader and I did this with Dune and LOVED it. Hasn’t gotten me much further but this may help kickstart your love of reading again.
I recommend The Martian as a book that fits your criteria
Definitely read that one before the movie came out. Excellent read. Great suggestion anyway!
That’s what happened with The Hunt for Red October. Got me into Tom Clancy.
Ohhh, I haven’t tackled that one yet. My father loves Clancy (too bad Clancy was a douchebag).
I recommend starting with young adult novels. There are a lot of great ones and they are easy to get into. Large fonts makes fast reading. They generally have an interesting theme and simple plot. Great way to get started. Trying to go from nothing to something complex like Infinite Jest is a recipe to fail.
They aren’t all love triangles anymore
I suggest the Wheel of Time Omnibus edition. Available on Kindle for $148, 14k+ pages, great one book solution to your re-solution.
320x200 or if thats too complicated 640x400 or 640x680.
Low stakes… I feel like 320x200 would be high stakes because of the difficulty. Low stakes would be more like 1920x1080
I’m taking a 1 month tolerance break, because getting high isn’t really interesting anymore
Oops, thought you meant “a break from being tolerant” and I was like, yeah, stop putting up with bullshit!
Finally we’ve found a solution to the paradox of tolerance!
That first hit when you get back will feel great I imagine. Enjoy the crazy dreams for the first couple weeks!
Pick up walking again.
Switch to Firefox.
Save some money.
Drive less and ride my bike more.
640 x 480
If you look at beef you can have low resolution steaks.
The resolution preferred by God himself.
No. G-d’s resolution is 80x24. Because in the beginning, there was only the CLI.
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I’m planning to walk 1000 km in 2024. Nowhere fancy, just around my neighborhood.
That’s just around 2.74km (rounded up) per day. So around 30 minutes of walking per day. Are you sure you’re not doing more than that already?
Ah… Sadly no. That’s why is my low stakes resolution. :) I work from home and I’ve gotten very lazy. I just roll from my bedroom to the office, down to the kitchen, and repeat.
American workers have a lot of struggle getting walking in as their jobs don’t require hardly any. Walk to car, drive to work to park in garage and walk a few hundred feet to elevator, from elevator a few hundred feet to desk, repeat that trip home, make dinner, go to bed, repeat the next day. It’s even worse for remote workers as they walk from a bed to a desk at most, many remote people I know work from their bed (I could never…)
Install Debian Mint on my old laptop and see how much I can get working on it. My ultimate ambition is to replace all my Windows 10 activity entirely by the end of 2024
I installed Debian in a dual boot in November and there’s only one game I haven’t got working yet. Everything else for work and fun has either worked or I’ve found a substitute.
Funny, same here
Doing the same but with Fedora on my old desktop. I’ve been messing around with Linux for some time now but this is the first time I’ve tried to put a serious attempt into setting up a development environment and move to Linux for gaming.
I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to get the games working. Now if I can just figure out how to get vortex or MO2 to work to mod Bethesda games I’ll be happy.
take more naps
I can get behind this one.
(Say this out loud)
There’s an app for that.
YES.
Mine is really just getting back into working out. I kept trying to go too hard after my shoulder surgery and kept pulling muscles (not in my shoulder), so I’ve taken like an 8 month break to let my body heal. This time I’m starting with my goal being 30 reps with perfect form at 5lb and going from there.
It sucks losing a bunch of muscle mass that you busted your ass to get, but luckily it’s easier to regain it than to grow it the first time.
Try Dragonfruit.
May be a little too wild, start with litchi or something
Do you mean Lychee fruit, or are you saying to track down an actual lich and run it through a chipper shredder? I’m in either way
Is it? My local grocery store in small town America has whole dragonfruit in the produce aisle and includes it in their overpriced mixed fruit tubs.
I’ll add it to the list! Kiddo is 4 so we’re probably just going to go to the Korean market and see what catches their interest
Oh you are going to be disappointed.
Cook one meal from a different country every month. I’ve always loved cooking and I have a partner who is equally as enthusiastic to eat it with me! The foods have to be something I’ve never cooked before. Some can be ones I’ve eaten before, so I have something to compare to. I’m thinking of starting with traditional foods from Afghanistan, Russia, Ethiopia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Uyghur…
Do you know sorted foods on youtube? They have a bunch of different series, one where they do just that, going in alphabetical order from A-Z and then drawing a random country starting with that letter, and then cooking the national dish plus some community recommendations. It’s quite fun!
Oh, no I haven’t, but thank you for the share, I’ll go take a look. Going out to eat has gone up in price so much that it is pushing me to learn to cook my favourite dishes, and explore flavours I would otherwise never have tasted before.
Something else I had planned to do was once a month, my partner and I write down three countries (six between us) we want to visit or re visit on small pieces of paper. We put them in a cup and draw three countries: First is the main meal, second is dessert, third is an activity.
Definitely more effort involved but it gets him to expand his culinary skills past pasta and chicken wraps.
That sounds like an awesome idea, I might steal that! Thanks for the inspiration! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
I’ve started painting 10-15 minutes every day and I want to keep that up. I fell off reading nonfiction so I’m planning to start that again.
Gonna try and keep stuff to make smoothies in the house so when I get the urge for a smoothie instead of being sad because I have no smoothie I will instead have a smoothie.
I make one new years resolution every year, to not make any other new years resolutions.
So far it is going great!
Listen here you little shit
