Hi Peregrine! I looked up The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and it's going on my to-read list! I'm always really interested in books about World War II, especially if they talk about the Japanese internment camps. If you like a sweet, clean adult read, I read My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry a few years ago and really enjoyed it. I don't know if it has anything in common with the book you recommended, but it was very character-focused which I love.
My main problem with YA is that nearly every one I've read goes into girls getting harrassed. I don't want to complain about this exactly, as it's an important topic to discuss and acknowledge, but it gives me anxiety and ruins the rest of the book for me, even if the book looks like it'll be good. I wish books would put trigger warnings in the front, because at least then I'd be prepared for it--some newer books have TWs but I would appreciate more of them.
Subject change...I'm on summer break! Yes, my school gets out really early. I like this for many reasons but mostly because the weather is so nice in May, not too hot yet, and it's a great time to be outside. August is just an unfortunate month so it's nice having some summer before the wildfires start up *sobs in western US*
Note, I recommend Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet for age 18 and up. It is an adult book.
Hi Admin, thank you for the note. It is categorized as an adult book, but when I read it it was cleaner than many YA books I've read. There isn't any adult content in it and a former teacher told me it was the sort of adult book schools had middle school students read. I do appreciate the warning and your effort to keep us safe.
Lupine, I was flipping through Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet again recently and came across a section I didn't remember where the characters seemed to be against queer relationships (I hope that is the right term). It is set in around the mid 1960s and I think the prevailing opinion was like that so the author could have been trying to stay true to the times. I just thought I would mention it in case you found it objectionable.
(about the queerphobia) Oh no... Thank so much you for warning us!!! I might look into this book, and encountering that without knowing it was coming would be very disconcerting at best. Also, yes, your phrasing is fine :D
Also, just a note, if the book doesn't ever have anything to do with queer relationships, then I don't think it was probably a good idea to include queerphobia... especially without content notices. And it doesn't sound like it was opposed. That viewpoint is still very prevalent today, and is becoming even more so I'd say. It would be very easy for queerphobia in a book that's not pointed out and deconstructed as bad to either remind a queer person of everything that's going on and how that could happen to them, or give a subtle (or not-so-subtle) pat on the back of a queerphobe. Queerphobia, including homophobia, is still definitely a thing, and can still get very bad.
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submitted by Blackfooted Bobcat (May 28, 2023 - 2:40 pm)
I'm sorry, I absolutely didn't remember those couple sentences and it was a surprise when I came across them. I'm glad I was able to provide the notice though.
The open mic I went to is also mostly non classical music, but at least the person who runs it regularly does opera and other classical music. I heard her sing some Bach arias and she was amazing.
The conductors for both of my orchestras are both very nice. They wouldn't shame us. I'm glad your solos went well, though!
Also do you write poetry? I didn't think you did. If you do, I'd love to see some on the regular poetry thread!! if you just listened at the open mic that's fine, I just like poetry.
I'm glad you like your haircut! because I find hair far too fascinating, I' m curious. Is it like a fringe that goes down on your forehead, or does it stick up more, like a quiff (even if it's not one?) Is it a side part with a long fringe (and possibly longer hair in the back, to make it look better)? Is it a curtain haircut of some sort? Or something else? I'm far too interested haha. I finally got a curtain haircut (again, technically), a while back actually. The whole hair story is long and complicated, but I love it. although I was expecting my hair to wavier in it. My hair is somewhere between wavy and straight and it changes daily, but it's almost less wavy... which is inconvenient because I want really texture-y hair. Mine is a pretty long haircut as far as masculine haircuts go, but it looks good I think.
I hadn't practiced trumpet in a few days, which is a bad idea because it's easy for your lip muscles to start weakening, especially because I haven't played very long. But i did practice a bit today. I really need to get a trumpet book because at the moment I mostly have songs with notes I can't play and scales. Lots of scales. but hey, there is one very good thing about trumpet (and many other instruments): you don't have to practice double stops. I am SO BAD at octaves especially, and they're even worse on viola (since you have to bring your arm around more when shifting up). I've been doing a lot of scales and such in lessons.
Oh, but sadly I won't be able to do the baroque youth concert :((((( I don't have an accompanist and there isn't time to get a piano copy of the music and put it all together and everything. HOWEVER I am now working on the first movement of Winter from the Four Seasons (Vivaldi, obviously)! It feels a bit stereotypical but it’s really fun and hopefully it’ll be good for seating hearings. Which might be earlier than we thought. Last year they gave us our excerpts a bit less than two weeks away from seating hearings, and I’m going to be in two orchestras and my teacher won’t be there the week of seating hearings, so if they do that again this year that’ll be not good.
Lupine, I totally agree, there should be trigger warnings for anyone getting harassed or hurt in the way I think you’re talking about, regardless of their gender. I also highly doubt that it’s necessary for the books in most cases.
Also I’m doing summer camps but I’ll write more about this later. Sorry for taking so long to reply! Maybe Lupine can explain DnD/ttrpgs, or I can later, but this is really long so I’m going to post.
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submitted by Blackfooted Bobcat (June 3, 2023 - 7:40 pm)
Heyo! I admit I had to google all of the hair terms that you mentioned, but if I am using these terms correctly, I have a side part with a long fringe on one side and it's layered in the back. I also looked up curtain haircuts and I bet yours looks awesome!
I do write a bit of poetry. The one from the open mic is very long and in a very weird form, but I might consider posting it or others on the regular poetry thread :) I should be active on that thread more.
I would definitely not call myself an expert on role playing games, but how I would generally explain it is a group of people sitting around a table basically making up a typically quest-centered story, in which outcomes are determined based on dice roles and various factors of your made-up character's traits. Blackfooted Bobcat probably has a much better explanation xD I totally understand being confused about what they are, because when I first heard about them I was only aware of board game-style games, with rules and the like, so I was deeply lost as to what people were talking about.
For the past few days I've been attending a young composers' workshop, which is both very interesting and slightly terrifying. We have a few classes every day and then time to work on a composition, which is supposed to be done by tomorrow so that it can be performed 0_0 And even if I have a pretty solid melody (which I may or may not, I have no idea), after replaying it a hundred times to see what harmony sounds best with it, it sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me and I cannot wait to be done T_T I'll post more about it after the performance tomorrow!
I would love to see your picturing of me, Blackfooted Bobcat!! You can post it here or on the Ultimate Picturings Thread. :)
The composing workshop performance went very well! They had hired two violinists, a cellist, a violist, and a pianist to perform all the music. I composed my piece for violin and cello, and as one of the violinists was my violin teacher (just by coincidence), she got to play it. It's not a very big city xD Everyone else's pieces sounded really cool. Since we're all just starting out, no one had a solid idea of genre for their piece, but I think that made it more interesting. I had initially tried to write an Irish-inspired, moody song about a selkie, but after I actually wrote it I realized it absolutely was not that so I retitled it "Gnome Romp." Very different vibes, but still fun.
(May 26, 2023 - 11:44 am)
Hi Peregrine! I looked up The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and it's going on my to-read list! I'm always really interested in books about World War II, especially if they talk about the Japanese internment camps. If you like a sweet, clean adult read, I read My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry a few years ago and really enjoyed it. I don't know if it has anything in common with the book you recommended, but it was very character-focused which I love.
My main problem with YA is that nearly every one I've read goes into girls getting harrassed. I don't want to complain about this exactly, as it's an important topic to discuss and acknowledge, but it gives me anxiety and ruins the rest of the book for me, even if the book looks like it'll be good. I wish books would put trigger warnings in the front, because at least then I'd be prepared for it--some newer books have TWs but I would appreciate more of them.
Subject change...I'm on summer break! Yes, my school gets out really early. I like this for many reasons but mostly because the weather is so nice in May, not too hot yet, and it's a great time to be outside. August is just an unfortunate month so it's nice having some summer before the wildfires start up *sobs in western US*
Note, I recommend Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet for age 18 and up. It is an adult book.
Admin
(May 27, 2023 - 8:52 pm)
Hi Admin, thank you for the note. It is categorized as an adult book, but when I read it it was cleaner than many YA books I've read. There isn't any adult content in it and a former teacher told me it was the sort of adult book schools had middle school students read. I do appreciate the warning and your effort to keep us safe.
Lupine, I was flipping through Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet again recently and came across a section I didn't remember where the characters seemed to be against queer relationships (I hope that is the right term). It is set in around the mid 1960s and I think the prevailing opinion was like that so the author could have been trying to stay true to the times. I just thought I would mention it in case you found it objectionable.
(May 28, 2023 - 10:44 am)
(about the queerphobia) Oh no... Thank so much you for warning us!!! I might look into this book, and encountering that without knowing it was coming would be very disconcerting at best. Also, yes, your phrasing is fine :D
Also, just a note, if the book doesn't ever have anything to do with queer relationships, then I don't think it was probably a good idea to include queerphobia... especially without content notices. And it doesn't sound like it was opposed. That viewpoint is still very prevalent today, and is becoming even more so I'd say. It would be very easy for queerphobia in a book that's not pointed out and deconstructed as bad to either remind a queer person of everything that's going on and how that could happen to them, or give a subtle (or not-so-subtle) pat on the back of a queerphobe. Queerphobia, including homophobia, is still definitely a thing, and can still get very bad.
(May 28, 2023 - 2:40 pm)
I'm sorry, I absolutely didn't remember those couple sentences and it was a surprise when I came across them. I'm glad I was able to provide the notice though.
(May 28, 2023 - 5:26 pm)
Also I have a longer thing almost ready, sorry it's been so long!
(May 28, 2023 - 2:41 pm)
Sorry for taking so long, I'm bad at this XD
The open mic I went to is also mostly non classical music, but at least the person who runs it regularly does opera and other classical music. I heard her sing some Bach arias and she was amazing.
The conductors for both of my orchestras are both very nice. They wouldn't shame us. I'm glad your solos went well, though!
Also do you write poetry? I didn't think you did. If you do, I'd love to see some on the regular poetry thread!! if you just listened at the open mic that's fine, I just like poetry.
I'm glad you like your haircut! because I find hair far too fascinating, I' m curious. Is it like a fringe that goes down on your forehead, or does it stick up more, like a quiff (even if it's not one?) Is it a side part with a long fringe (and possibly longer hair in the back, to make it look better)? Is it a curtain haircut of some sort? Or something else? I'm far too interested haha. I finally got a curtain haircut (again, technically), a while back actually. The whole hair story is long and complicated, but I love it. although I was expecting my hair to wavier in it. My hair is somewhere between wavy and straight and it changes daily, but it's almost less wavy... which is inconvenient because I want really texture-y hair. Mine is a pretty long haircut as far as masculine haircuts go, but it looks good I think.
I hadn't practiced trumpet in a few days, which is a bad idea because it's easy for your lip muscles to start weakening, especially because I haven't played very long. But i did practice a bit today. I really need to get a trumpet book because at the moment I mostly have songs with notes I can't play and scales. Lots of scales. but hey, there is one very good thing about trumpet (and many other instruments): you don't have to practice double stops. I am SO BAD at octaves especially, and they're even worse on viola (since you have to bring your arm around more when shifting up). I've been doing a lot of scales and such in lessons.
Oh, but sadly I won't be able to do the baroque youth concert :((((( I don't have an accompanist and there isn't time to get a piano copy of the music and put it all together and everything. HOWEVER I am now working on the first movement of Winter from the Four Seasons (Vivaldi, obviously)! It feels a bit stereotypical but it’s really fun and hopefully it’ll be good for seating hearings. Which might be earlier than we thought. Last year they gave us our excerpts a bit less than two weeks away from seating hearings, and I’m going to be in two orchestras and my teacher won’t be there the week of seating hearings, so if they do that again this year that’ll be not good.
Lupine, I totally agree, there should be trigger warnings for anyone getting harassed or hurt in the way I think you’re talking about, regardless of their gender. I also highly doubt that it’s necessary for the books in most cases.
Also I’m doing summer camps but I’ll write more about this later. Sorry for taking so long to reply! Maybe Lupine can explain DnD/ttrpgs, or I can later, but this is really long so I’m going to post.
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Heyo! I admit I had to google all of the hair terms that you mentioned, but if I am using these terms correctly, I have a side part with a long fringe on one side and it's layered in the back. I also looked up curtain haircuts and I bet yours looks awesome!
I do write a bit of poetry. The one from the open mic is very long and in a very weird form, but I might consider posting it or others on the regular poetry thread :) I should be active on that thread more.
I would definitely not call myself an expert on role playing games, but how I would generally explain it is a group of people sitting around a table basically making up a typically quest-centered story, in which outcomes are determined based on dice roles and various factors of your made-up character's traits. Blackfooted Bobcat probably has a much better explanation xD I totally understand being confused about what they are, because when I first heard about them I was only aware of board game-style games, with rules and the like, so I was deeply lost as to what people were talking about.
For the past few days I've been attending a young composers' workshop, which is both very interesting and slightly terrifying. We have a few classes every day and then time to work on a composition, which is supposed to be done by tomorrow so that it can be performed 0_0 And even if I have a pretty solid melody (which I may or may not, I have no idea), after replaying it a hundred times to see what harmony sounds best with it, it sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me and I cannot wait to be done T_T I'll post more about it after the performance tomorrow!
(June 17, 2023 - 12:26 am)
How'd the performance go, Lupine?
Also I have a picturing I drew of you. It's not my favorite but I can post it on the Ultimate Picturings thread if you want.
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I'm so sorry working on a post TAT
(July 8, 2023 - 7:23 pm)
I would love to see your picturing of me, Blackfooted Bobcat!! You can post it here or on the Ultimate Picturings Thread. :)
The composing workshop performance went very well! They had hired two violinists, a cellist, a violist, and a pianist to perform all the music. I composed my piece for violin and cello, and as one of the violinists was my violin teacher (just by coincidence), she got to play it. It's not a very big city xD Everyone else's pieces sounded really cool. Since we're all just starting out, no one had a solid idea of genre for their piece, but I think that made it more interesting. I had initially tried to write an Irish-inspired, moody song about a selkie, but after I actually wrote it I realized it absolutely was not that so I retitled it "Gnome Romp." Very different vibes, but still fun.
What have you been up to?
(July 8, 2023 - 8:32 pm)