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I didn't listen to any pre-season podcasts. I stayed off the Survivor Reddit. For the first time in a while, I went into this season with no impressions of the cast at all. After the first episode, I still have high hopes for the season but I don't love the cast. Some of the personalities are so...

#7 "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou I'm just not going to comment on this book because I will probably say something ignorant or insensistive. I'm glad that I read it. I recommend it. That's all.

#6 "Jurassic Park" by Michael Crichton I've never read the book before. I'd never even seen the movie either. I know, I KNOW! I can check both of those off my list now. I enjoyed the book a lot. It's basically a fantasy but Crichton puts a ton of research into making it seem plausible. It does...

I'm still here! #5 "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss This book came highly recommended by several of my friends. So I had high expectations, and that was the first problem. I thought the book started out very well but it turned Harry Potter-esque and I'm not a Potter fan. It's also the...

...and it was underwhelming, like pretty much everything else this season. I blame casting. This was a bland set of castaways. The "Ghost Island" premise was good. I liked all the flashbacks to prior seasons. However, no amount of idols, twists, or advantages can make up for bad casting.

Would you believe that I've never seen any of the movies? I'll go add the book to my reading list now.

Is this the worst Pagonging since the original Pagong tribe in season one? With all the swaps and advantages in play, we still end up with the original Malolo members getting picked off one by one. Actually... two a time.

Not my favorite season. There's no one that I'm excited to see win but there are a few that could pull me in before this thing is all over: Angela: I really enjoyed her gross food performance. I would like to see more of that Angela. Michael: I didn't like him in the preseason interviews. He...

The kind of book that trips up my reading goals... #4 "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore" by Robin Sloan It felt imaginative and contrived at the same time. I found the ending to be unsatisfying. I think the author knew it and wrote some of the characters as unsatisfied too. He used the epilogue...

First, Russell Hantz is the most overrated player to ever lose the game. Any time a player starts talking about Russell Hantz they lose credibility with me. I assume they've never watched the game outside of the seasons that the production team suggested they watch after they were cast. About...

Jacob had to give away the Legacy advantage to empower it but do you think he could have kept it if he wanted to? If he took it back to camp, maybe he could have bargained it in some way that kept him in the game even though it could never actually be used at tribal council. He could have shown...

I thought it was a great first episode! I don't care much for Donathon. Speaking for myself as a Southerner, the whole "aw shucks y'all, I ain't never been outta Bumpkin County in mah whole life" shtick does not endear him to me at all. I would have much rather had Gonzales in the game. At...

Survivor premieres tonight at 8 pm eastern on CBS. I don't see our regular Survivor thread yet so... "Come on in guys!" If you've read the cast bios, call your shot! Who do you think will be voted out first and who do you think will win it all? CBS.com: Survivor Season 36 Cast Bios YouTube...

#3 "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coehlo Some people see a motivational poster and their outlook on life is truly improved. If your Instagram feed is full of sepia tone landscapes overlaid with inspirational sayings, this book is for you. I can see how someone might find this book invigorating but for...

#2 "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand This is the biography of an Olympic runner who became a bomber and was shot down over the Pacific in WWII. I think I just love a good survival book. I thought the whole section adrift in the raft was amazing. Now, I need to go rent the movie. Also Read: Black...

I just started playing last week and, with the free AP event, I’ve managed to grind up to level 100 and quest 168. This game is so complicated. I need some kind of instruction manual. :headache:

#1 ”Thrawn” by Timothy Zahn I liked it, I didn’t love it. Admiral Thrawn is intelligent and stoic. I can see the attraction some Star Wars fans have for this military mastermind. Given his character, his story was appropriately lacking in passion and suspense. For me, it fell a little flat.

There was a period of time when it seemed like all the "best sellers" were YA and I read a lot of them. I'm in my 40s and reading stories with a teenage protagonist got tiresome after a while. Not that I wouldn't ever read another YA novel, but the label would tend to steer me away from it. I...

Put me down for 12. I have to lower my reading goal every year. :rolleyes1 We can friend up on Goodreads if you want. I'm currently reading "Star Wars: Thrawn" a novel by Timothy Zahn. I have been reading a lot of comic books lately but I promise not to count them toward my reading goal. :-)

My opinion, this wasn't a great season. It wasn't even a good season until the last few episodes. I consider myself to be somewhat of a Survivor "purist." I don't like that there is an idol in play at every single tribal council now. But, I also don't buy the conspiracy theories that say that...