u/mixedmediamadness

I went around my house today and made a list of all the books I have but haven't read. Trying to work through all of them, and anything I dnf is going to a free little library in town. No clue where to start. What do you suggest I pick up first? Most of these were grabs from the discount bin at the local used bookstore I used to frequent. Some, I have absolutely no idea how they came to me. I don't even know what some of these are about or their genre. But I'm running out of space for new books and I need to figure out what here I'm missing out on by not reading and what is taking up space and preventing me from getting other books.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog — Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson

The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem — Sarit Yishai-Levi, Anthony Berris

Complete Stories — Dorothy Parker, Regina Barreca

The Pull of the Stars — Emma Donoghue

Bridget Jones's Diary — Helen Fielding

The Echo Wife — Sarah Gailey

Less — Andrew Sean Greer

The Polysyllabic Spree — Nick Hornby

Housekeeping vs. the Dirt — Nick Hornby

The Lion Women of Tehran — Marjan Kamali

Crazy Rich Asians — Kevin Kwan

Luckiest Girl Alive — Jessica Knoll

Norwegian Wood — Haruki Murakami

One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories — B. J. Novak

The Devil Wears Prada — Lauren Weisberger

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood — Rebecca Wells

The Autograph Man — Zadie Smith

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society — Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows

Where'd You Go, Bernadette — Maria Semple

East of Eden — John Steinbeck

The White Album — Joan Didion

Red Clocks — Leni Zumas

The Book Thief — Markus Zusak

Junky / Queer / Naked Lunch — William S. Burroughs

Lowboy — John Wray

Little Fires Everywhere — Celeste Ng

I shop at Target when I need something specific and I always shop in person in the store and use self-checkout. Three times now I have noticed that when an item is on sale, it does not ring up at the sale price.

Yesterday I bought a book with a 30% off sticker on it but at the self-checkout it rang up at full price. A few weeks ago I bought some protein bars that showed in the app that they were on sale both online and in store, but they rang up at the full price. A few weeks before that I bought some cheese that was on sale, there was a sign on the shelf where I got it, but it rang up at full price.

For each of these purchases I needed to call over an employee and have them manually adjust the cost to the sale value.

If you are shopping at Target and using self-checkout, you cannot assume that any sale value is being honored without you double checking it.

This is especially horrible when you consider the things that you might be purchasing only because you feel like it is a good deal or the sale price is the thing that makes it worth it to buy. I generally don't buy books or cheese at Target, the only reason I even had those items with me and check out was because the sale price was reasonable.

tl:dr - Target is stealing from its customers, hoping that you are not paying attention while checking out.

Does anyone have a dictionary for the stage of parenting I'm apparently entering now? He's called me bro and dude a couple of times before, but I knew what those meant. I'm lost with the sigma (although he doesn't seem to know what it means either at the moment).

It's so exhausting how she posts before every fast 'I invented a trend and now every store sells out because of me'

She's so full of herself. I don't know why but of all the food influencers I've seen I find her to be the most insufferable

I said what I said

We had been doing alright, but things have been getting tighter and tighter the last few months. We paid the daycare today. We have one more payment for August. Then we're on to public kindergarten. We're going to have to pay for after school care, but we should have at least a thousand dollars a month of the daycare expense that will be back in our pockets. We're increasing 401k contributions immediately, but I'm hoping I can feel like we have an ounce of breathing room again. Cannot wait for compensation adjustments later this year

I'm curious to hear from other people in their 30s and 40s. A few years ago I was at like 4 hours a day and I thought that was bad. Now I'm at like 7-10 hours a day and I'm not even sure how it's possible. A lot of stats seem to focus on Gen z or alpha, or cover everyone

I'm looking for an in-person CPA tutor in Westchester County or Manhattan (but ideally Westchester). I'm having no luck searching online. Do you know of any good ways to connect with in person tutoring options?

How bad are you expecting Grand Central and the Metro North to be for the World Cup? Are you going to be working from home more over the next few weeks? I have no idea what to expect but I'd prefer to avoid a difficult commute whenever possible