Reading diary

[beowabbit]

Some of you are so disciplined about telling us what you’re reading. I haven’t been, but here’s a start:

Just finished: Slut! Growing up female with a bad reputation by Leora Tanenbaum.

About to start:The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London by Sarah Wise. I forget how I stumbled across this online, but it was some trail of breadcrumbs involving the dearth of anatomical specimens at medical schools in the 19th century.

And now, off to see if I can get my car to start. :-/ (Battery’s dead.)

Comments

[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

Now you're living in Quincy, we should meet up.

I have a car with a good battery and jumper cables.

[beowabbit]

Where do you live? (And have we met in person, or do you just know me through LiveJournal? We do seem to know some people in common.)

[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

Over on the Adams Shore/Germantown/Hough's Neck border.

We met at Pennsic in 2004 when you were delivering sionnagh to the Attractive Nuisance campground. Though I think we might have met several years earlier at a poly night at the Diesel. I'm very, very peripheral to the poly crowd these days.

[rantmaster.livejournal.com]

Dude, sucks. I had battery problems...had to get jumps on three separate occasions before it sunk in my battery was just, dying. When I took it in, I found out it hadn't been replaced since 1999. (something not entirely under my control, since someone else owned this car up till 2003.)

That first one sounds like an interesting book, albeit a likely depressing one.

[beowabbit]

Actually, it started up on its own in the evening. I think it just failed in the morning because it was so very cold. (But I know that my battery is due for replacement. I'd been holding off because a friend offered to get me one cheap, but I think I need to just go ahead and do it on my own. Might do it when I have the turn signal replaced and the headlight realigned. :-)

[minerva42]

Huh. So I had to jump my car today. My mother called to chat, and apparently she had to jump her car today. All is not right with the world of batteries, it seems.

[beowabbit]

Well, was it bitterly cold where you were and where your mother was? If so, I sense a theme. :-) (My car started right up yesterday evening, after the weather warmed up. Yesterday morning, when it was bitterly cold, it turned over a few times and then just clicked a bit.)