[TSS] What I'm doing when I'm not reading

Has anyone read a book by Italian author Italo Calvino?  There was a Radiolab short featuring a story by him and I was completely enthralled by it.  I have just purchased a copy of Invisible Cities for my Kindle and I hope it's as captivating as I think it will be.

Here's a description of the story on the Radiolab website:

According to one theory, the moon formed when a Mars-sized chunk of rock collided with Earth. After the moon coalesced out of the debris from that impact, it was much closer to Earth than it is today. This idea is taken to it's fanciful limit in Italo Calvino's story "The Distance of the Moon" (from his collection Cosmicomics). The story, narrated by a character with the impossible-to-pronounce name Qfwfq, tells of a strange crew who jump between Earth and moon, and sometimes hover in the nether reaches of gravity between the two.

 And here's the podcast where you can listen to the story in full and perhaps become as enthralled as me.

It's fantastic and well worth the 40 minute investment.  Liev Schrieber is an amazing narrator.

If you want a shorter commitment, the below Dove video that compares how women describe themselves with how other people describe them has been making the round this week.  I'm really only posting it here for context, since you may have already seen it.  But I actually want you to click through to here.  Why?  It puts the whole video in fantastic context and really offers a lot of great insight.  Need a teaser to get you to click through?

And my primary problem with this Dove ad is that it’s not really challenging the message like it makes us feel like it is. It doesn’t really tell us that the definition of beauty is broader than we have been trained to think it is, and it doesn’t really tell us that fitting inside that definition isn’t the most important thing. It doesn’t really push back against the constant objectification of women. All it’s really saying is that you’re actually not quite as far off from the narrow definition as you might think that you are (if you look like the featured women, I guess).   -jazzy little drops 

See?  Pretty powerful commentary, isn't it?  So go ahead and click through.



And that's what I'm doing when I'm not reading! That is, besides gearing up for my sister's wedding, which is on SATURDAY!  Very exciting/stressful/emotional week coming up for me!

What about you?