YouTube Video Downloader : https://routinehub.co/shortcut/8528/
After downloading the shortcut enable show in share sheet in the settings of the shortcut.
Open YouTube and select share below the video. Scroll to right and select more. Click on the shortcut name and save to your phone when prompted.
For MP3 songs use : https://routinehub.co/shortcut/8524/
Uses the same method as described in https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/ls6rys/mp3_downloader_shortcut/
I’ve come across just a few and even those feel understaffed and underutilized.
updated: https://historyunwrittenpodcast.com/
This one has a series on the Mali Empire with a lot of focus on Mansa Musa. Really solid!
This doesn’t happen every time I listen to music, but it’s happening more frequently: I’ll be scrolling through Spotify, and I choose my album or playlist, and as the first track begins, I start to think, “Hmm, I could be be getting more value out of my time now by listening to Memory Palace or Heavyweight or Canadaland right now.”
I guess I feel I should be educating myself when I have time to do so. Anyone else been feeling like that?
Looking at you Wondery!
I always loved Hunter Thompson and finish his books in a day to day in a half and I recently have been reading Neil Gaiman. I’ve read like 800 pages of american gods in two days without missing a beat in-between working and daily things. Already read Anansi bros. I’m gonna blow through all Neil’s books in a couple of weeks. Anything y’all would suggest by anyone else that captivates in the same manner?
*Thank you all so much!! I will be using this as a reference point from here on out for years to come!!
As the title says basically. I was OBSESSED as a young girl with The Mummy and Egypt. I realized that I don’t think I have ever read anything that involves adventures like those movies. From the charm, suspense, thrill, comedy and even that bit of romance mixed with magic books that bring the dead alive, the beauty and horror of an ancient civilization effecting the modern world. I love the scenery and the interesting characters met along the way and even the weaselly fellows out to save their own hide. The findings of ancient treasures and ancient knowledge and magic… I could go on. I freakin love those movies. lol So any suggestions for books that bring that sort of energy? I am interested in Egypt(and would prefer it), but honestly I would read about other ancient civilization adventures that take place in the modern world.
Edit: Holy smokes! So many great suggestions to add to my TBR list! Even more, I never knew so many other folks loved those movies! I’m really excited to …
It’s the escapism for me. Previous hate reads include Discovery of Witches series, Twilight series and Priory of the Orange Tree. Doesn’t have to be vampires but fantasy seems to be a good place to look for ridiculous but binge-able books.
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Thanks for all the trashy, love to hate, hate to love, good kind of bad, basic bitch, fun read, guilty pleasure, popcorn, addictive, actually just bad, and mass market garbage suggestions. Also the awards (!)
Sorry to anyone who took offense to this post. I meant trash in the most affectionate way possible, Priory was simply the next closest thing I had read to that sentiment, although it isn’t the same flavor of bad at all.. just disappointing. We’ll fix that, probably starting with True Blood, Stephanie Plum or Dresden Files I think!
I would also like to bump this essay on Camp suggested by u/ThatsMcGuffin2U
https://monoskop.org/images/5/59/Sontag_Susan_1964_Notes_on_Camp.pdf
I’ve been trying to find a good book for days now, I really, really want to read. Read Verity yesterday, loved it. Out of a 100 books I read last year, about 90% were crime/psychological thrillers. I love Lucinda Berry’s books, and Lucey Foley’s as well.
Help me find more books, please.
Edit: thank you so much for all the replies! I’m pretty sure I’m sorted for the next year or so! It’s night where I am and I’m off to sleep but super excited to wake up tomorrow and read all the suggestions!
What was the last title that made you physically ache? That inspired an actual, visceral feeling of abject hurt, and longing, and loneliness, and wistfulness in you, for a moment you’d lost; a person you once knew; an experience you’d never again relieve; a memory you can’t let go of? A book that actually made you set it down for a breather; a book that felt like it had gone and thrust a hole, inch by painful inch, right through your chest?
It’s been a while since a book’s made me feel Actual Things, and I feel like it’s high-time I found another novel that forces you to look inwardly, introspectively.
The last few books I’d read that ever inspired something remotely close to that elusive feeling are: - Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami - Big Sur, and On the Road by Jack Kerouac - We Are Okay by Nina LaCour - Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein - The Journal of Hélène Berr by Hélène Berr
I’d love to hear your experiences with your novels, and hear some suggestions for my next big …
A self-help book that’s on how to be a better friend, a more positive presence in other people’s lives as a young person in college, out of college in ur first real job, that kind of thing.
Update : Thanks for the recs so far, but I was looking for something in a little bit more present context and something that has specific advice for college students and young people in general.
Update 2: I have a tonne of friends lmao im not looking for advice on how to make friends, rather to manage a lot of relationships at once gracefully.