Alimony: support for a spouse that sacrificed their career to further yours during the course of the relationship
Child support: support for the child, given to the parent that incurs in the costs for the child
What the novel talks about is child support.
I still don’t get the black humor and I will pretend to believe it’s because of the translation.
“And the rest of her body?” She skinny!
Very pretty! Loving the fading of focus
I’m glad different books appeal to different people! I’m actually really enjoying this thread of readers having different experiences than me :)
I will take the opposing stance.
Of the list, I only read the Children of Time book and it honestly put me off. I found the writing too dry, the characters too unexplored and the narrative too rushed. Stuff was happening at such a fast pace that it was unclear how characters were (emotionally) reacting to it. I found the generational stories particularly off putting, each chapter felt more like a list of facts than a novel. On the other hand, the book was definitely physically long enough, so I wouldn’t want more padding.
After than, I gave up in the whole author.
Agreed on this. Polpette is supposed to be a second course, while pasta sauces are supposed to be “saucy”, not over-clumpy as polpette
In the north, they exist, usually in tomato sauce, but not as a pasta sauce
In the north, they exist, usually in tomato sauce, but not as a pasta sauce
In the north, they exist, usually in tomato sauce, but not as a pasta sauce
The market has shrunk and the prices have gone up… there are still some good items on the second hand market, at times, depending on location.
How are people surprised ! That’s just sad
Googling seems quite effective, honestly. For example here
For my friend, I think was a Google search as well
The most groundbreaking moment in this sense for me was when I was writing course notes for an introductory course (level 300 on my specialty, I was ready). On a small topic, I had my references lined up, until a colleague shared that the obvious, well-known, widely referenced result had been disproven a couple of years prior. The new proof is far from simple, does not belong in a level 300 class and made me scrap the whole section.
For the interested: the course was Introduction to Numerical Analysis, the topic was the order of convergence of the bisection method. Widely known but wrong result Ironically, I can’t quickly find the paper disproving it.
At first read, I enjoyed it, but afterwards I realized it’s a Mary Sue character with some problematic views on romance, I’m not interested in continuing reading
Over the summer, archeologist groups look for helpers. Here is an example. It’s often mostly grunt work in a bigger group.
There are also plenty of small seminars scattered around the world with artisans teaching their techniques. A friend of mine made a sword for example.
I learned the hard way that my limit is one and a half. The half means “sometimes, a second shot is fine, sometimes NOT”
I haven’t heard of since there was a clear explanation of how the eye evolved - since that one was a specific example they were referring to
To scrap the surface: Babel.
The description of what it means to be an expat, away from your culture, cut much deeper than it had reasons to. And it’s a great action/fantasy book
I might give it another try, the first time around I found it forced and bland. Like Asimov tried to connect pieces that were not meant to connect, while not having a lot of inspiration
A small thing, but my parents were very authoritarian. Rules were honestly fair, but any discussion was immediately closed by “because I said so”. In particular as a teenager, I was aware enough to both realize that the rules were overall fair, so I didn’t want to go on an all out war, but also wanted to discuss about finer points. But there was no space for a civil discussion because my parents “said so”.