Lisa Hatlestad

""chatgpt down in the middle of the workday i’m about to get fired pray for me,” wrote on user on X, alongside other complaints from people who said they were in the middle of coding or writing essays and now had to do the work themselves."

ChatGPT, define schadenfreude. Oh wait, you can't. 🤣

Hand up to join you

I have no “thing.” This has kept me from posting on here. And now I’m realizing I’ve been thinking I should be like a gum ball dispenser filled with only gum balls of only one flavor. Henceforth, I’ll be dispensing gum balls, sardines and cabbage. It’s okay if this makes no sense to you.

Same. 😕

Wicked book cover - circular inset of the profile of a shoulders-up etching of a witch with her face turned to the left and half-hidden under a wide-brimmed witch hat.

Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 15: Wicked - Gregory Maguire
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My current view. A slightly uneasy sharing of space. Good thing i have ample real estate. 🥰
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because: insidious "spiritual warfare" indoctrination. It's been going on forever but has gained incredible volume over the last 15-20 years. So, so sad.

Please can you stop removing blurbs from the back of books and replacing them with praise quotes from people who’ve read it.

I choose books based on the story not because Josh Widdicombe or someone enjoyed it.

Cover of Memnoch the Devil - the painting “Road to Calvary with Veronica's Veil” - by Giovanni Cariani Biblical figure Veronica holding the cloth Jesus pressed to his bloody face on the day of his crucifixion as Jesus and other figures under burden of his cross, stand beside and around her.

Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 14: Memnoch the Devil - Anne Rice
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Coming back here to say, thank you for this piece. I too use writing to transmute…or at the very least, to understand and witness the pieces of my childhood in which I had no agency.

Congratulations! 👏🏻👏🏻

Book cover of Piranesi - painting of Pan playing flute while standing on. Grecian column against a black background. Book title and author name in large serif grunge font.

Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 13: Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
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Did someone open the deep feels portal sometime around 2019? I mean, I’ve always been sensitive but I mean…

Book cover - pale yellow the Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking.

Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 12: The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
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💗💗💗

Wow. Just wow 🤯

Every damn day

Cover of first edition featuring surrealist/abstract collage art of a burly man with an abstract face clutching a woman with a woman’s raphaelite-styled face/head atop a small, child sized body

Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11: The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
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First read it when I was nineteen. Still reread and love it 37 years later.

Book cover for Koko - abstract face with acid green skin and red lips and fake outline on a black background

Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10: Koko - Peter Straub
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This is exactly the remedy under I needed.

🙏

I think it is. We’ve moved it to a cooler room this year and it’s looking perkier…I’m hopeful

Pretty! I’m hoping mine will be coaxed out some day!

Photo of the book Making the Gods Work for You: Purple background with mythological figures in relief, title in gold.

Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9: Making the Gods Work for You - Caroline W Casey
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Photo through car windshield of rural highway covered with blowing snow under a dreary, gray, windy sky

This does not trend toward holiday cheer, but it is what it is. Northwestern Minnesota, Dec 4 2024

Done.

Photo of John, a dark gray male cat with a small dot of white on its chest, sitting upright on a taupe blanket and looking at the camera.

John Meowkovich
December 2024

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Authors name is misspelled in the copy of my post. It is Susanna Clarke

Cover of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - black background with a raven in flight silhouette, title and author in white

Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susannah Clarke
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