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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I just finished the 4th and last available book in the Bobiverse series Heaven’s River. This one is quite a bit different as it focuses more on diverging/drifting personality differences of the replicants. I’d still recommend it though, it feels like a natural progression from where the story began.

    I also read through The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (translated). This one was very different than your typical sci-fi. Very political, conspiratorial, and at times very dry. In the end I very much enjoyed the story, but it felt like 2 disparate plot lines that didn’t really coalesce. It was also the second book I’ve read in the last month that didn’t resolve any of the main story conflict in the first book and requires reading the next book to get closure… Not a fan of that sort of ending.








  • Not really, though. Rigid structure helps with ADHD, but only when someone else is enforcing the structure. Prepubescent kids with ADHD aren’t typically capable of maintaining their own structure. They aren’t neurotypical, it’s more than distraction and energy, they have a functioning issue. They can’t tune out all the stimulus that normal brains do, and because of it they miss a lot of social cues that help with development.

    My son has ADHD and no amount of reorienting our family environment would help him - he could (and has) literally be in a bare concrete room with nothing but his thoughts and get distracted and slam his hands together making exploding/punching sounds for hours, where a typical kid would get bored in seconds.




  • I’ve been out of town for the last 4 days, so I didn’t get much reading in. I did finish reading All These Worlds by Dennis Taylor however. I’ve also read about 50% through the 4th and final book in the series Heaven’s River. This one is quite a bit different as it focuses more on the personality of the main character and forces some self-reflection on ‘him’ and his clones.

    I was also able to finish listening to:
    [Audio] The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams, narrated by Martin Freeman. It ended so abruptly, and didn’t really seem to have an overall plot, it just sort of meandered until the auther was like ‘Alright, I’mma head out’… I’m not sure I liked this one, honestly. There was a lot of abruptly stopping the story progression to examine some random topic in detail.