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What part of your routine do you always try to skip

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Daily writing prompt
What part of your routine do you always try to skip if you can?
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Two things, one controversial, and one not.

Breakfast.

I’m a mild believer in the intermittent fasting. It’s not because of any science behind this diet but rather because if I don’t try doing it, I can eat all the time, particularly sweet things. This can’t be good. I’m sure bad things happen if you eat too often, like high blood sugar, insuline resistance, obesity, earthquakes.

Morning iPhone

I watched the following reel and it deeply touched me. The comedian is also right.

Book Clutter

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I’m starting to think the ideal number of books to own is almost zero. I feel like one should only keep books that are either signed, gifts, not yet read, or for some reason frequently re-read. Everything else serves very little to no purpose and only forms clutter. The individual books are pretty big units of kipple that reduces the living space of book worms like me.

I keep an overflow shelf where books are prepared for donation but I seem to have been slow with getting rid of old books and very quick with buying new ones.

Charity 1 by Wolfgang Hohlbein

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There’s a wonderful feature by the local reading site Chitanka that offers you random books. I would click 10-15-20 times and find something new I’ve never seen before. A few days ago, it offered me the apocalyptic sci-fi Charity.

Charity is an astronaut and a military captain during an active invasion. An alien ecosystem enters Earth through some kind of portals, brought here by a spaceship, and obliterates everything. The invading army is so powerful that humans do not stand a chance. However, there would be no book if there was no hope, right?

It’s not yet clear what Charity’s superpower is or how she’s going to push back to the invading force. She seems to be good at surviving and also very lucky.

I’d say, almost 5*/5, not a wow book, but definitely one that makes you want to read the continuation. It is also short, which is an advantage.