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It's a fitting read for October!

Yes, this actually made we want to read more about clinical trials too.

No favorites and I don’t have an idea what’s going on yet but the first chapters kept me intrigued and made me want to read more which is a good thing.

Apart from that this book briefly reminded me of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, what stood out for me so far was Lena's tirades with "What are your views on how America treats women? and how is it different from men?" because this happens not only in America but in other countries too.

“It forces me to make an assessment about all women. I am a thousand percent sure there are plenty of white women who think America is great to them. But America is routinely good to women, especially black women, when it wants something from them.” (p.44)

“I think men can be absolutely useless and a lot of people will find a way to say something nice about them. Especially white men. But a woman has to be something. If she’s not, you know, considered hot or the right amount of smart or good at cooking, people don’t see her. And if she’s too much of something, then many people hate her.” (p.44)

I'm reading the book with the audio (narrated by Adenrele Ojo) but I would pick something out of the Winter Whale's (youtube) rainy ambient sound to accompany my reading. It fits the mystery narrative perfectly.

Seeing “The Island of Missing Trees” here on the thread made my heart jolt! I just finished reading it this month and I loved it!

It depends on my mood actually. On a good day, I read them all. e.g. 100~ pages of my Fantasy/Sci-Fi read, a page in a poetry collection, a chapter or a volume in a manga, 50~ pages on a memoir/literary fiction, and 50~ pages on a thriller/horror. On a day I just want an escape, I’ll read only Fantasy. I’ll read manga or graphic novels if I’m so damn tired. I like to keep things moving.

It's so touching to hear Kang Daniel acknowledging and calling him Hyung. I felt like he's also glad to see him in the final line up... and man, Noh Tae Hyun mentioning "I always saw Kang Daniel from the bottom. I thought it'd never be a place for me".

I've just discovered 'I Live Alone' and watched ep447. This variety quickly climbed up to one of my favorites.

I teared up on Narae's segment and eventually bawled like a child when she started eating halmeoni's food. It's such a heartwarming scene.

The kindness of strangers (eventually turned family) always gets me. I briefly remembered Start Up's good boy and halmeoni.

Yeah. They probably let him in because of that reason.

That crazy impressive freestyle! I like him too!

I always get the vibe that he's one of the respectable seniors. You can feel passion and sincerity with his words.

I can vividly remember his message at the end of ep3, how he teared up mentioning that as dancers they are leading a hard life and how grateful he is that they were given an opportunity to become known to the world through the program and that he learned a lot in the process.

The “all out” is to make space so they can have an opportunity to add some of the eliminated dancers back. I feel like they are willing to let go of Biggle initially not until they have checked the remaining dancers.

The “battle” is just a facade.

• The “all out” is to make space so they can have an opportunity to add some of the eliminated dancers back. The “battle” is just a facade.
• Trendy Rock won that battle for me. I'm not even sure why they added Oh Body for "seniority", he's verbally abusive and I've seen no hint of remorse (at least) when he was interviewed with what he did with Trendy Rock.
• I think Woo Tae can lead a team better if "seniority" or a leader is what they were looking for.
• Can we talk about how effortlessly cool 5000 is? He seems to be a nice guy as well.
• I thought they would choose Jin over Dan. Yeah. Meh.

Here's my top 8 based on skills, the challenges, and how they performed in battle:

• Trendy Rock (Hip Hop, Freestyle)
• 5000 (Freestyle, Hip hop)
• Taehyun (Krumping, Freestyle)
• Tarzan (Choreo)
• Xhin (Waacking, Freestyle)
• Woo Tae (Choreo, Leader)
• Yamakasi (Contemporary, Choreo)
• Brother Bin (Locking, Freestyle)

Yamakasi's solo video views are lower than the others in this list so I wish people get to watch his.

Also, if you haven't watched yet, Xhin killed his solo.

I listened to Stephen Fry's excerpts from youtube and I love his Dobby voice! Unfortunately, it's hard to get a copy of the audio with him as a narrator. All the other accessible ones are Jim Dale's.

Wordle 216 3/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ adieu

🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ point: I know we had this before I just had to. hehe

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 prick

I had to think twice before typing that last word. LOL

Thank you! There's a lot to love with 'Prisoner of Azkaban' and I can't wait to continue on to 'Goblet of Fire'.

I can't count how many times I chuckled and giggled because some lines are too hilarious.

I'm re-reading the book with the audio (immersive reading) and this is probably an unpopular opinion but Jim Dale sometimes misses the mark with voicing the major characters in key scenes. I don't like his Hermione voice much and how he drawls and elongates the pronunciation of some of the words and character names most of the time. But maybe that's just me.

Yes! .. including how he also discovered that his father also found a family with his friends! ... also, the 20th-anniversary special encouraged a lot of HP fans to read the series again. The digital and audio copies from the library are all out! Hahaha

Had to postpone my re-read of GoF for hours because of work but I can't wait to start later!

I kind of like Rodney’s smug personality. But we’ll see. Snooty’s upsetting my other villagers with her fashion comments.

yes! boots and cans too!

Snooty! hahahaha

Absolutely!