Ok but what was the audiobook? I am nosy.
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“The 5am club”. A well regarded productivity book. I was like… I get up at 5. I like productivity books sometimes. I like being told I’m already awesome. Let’s do it!
No, friends. First off, he apparently tells the whole thing in the form of like, parables involving characters with weird names like The Spellbinder. And just horribly indulgent and wankery sentences. The author clearly needs a time out from the thesaurus.
At first I was like “wow this writing is fuckin horrible but maybe this is a weird intro?” so then I did a quick google search and OH BOY how is this books well regarded by ANYONE?
https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/115aasb/why_is_the_5am_club_so_beloved/
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imo as a person who does not have kids, men who write about getting up at 5am and productivity have nothing to say of value to people who are primary parenting (I have not read the book, I’m getting up at between 2am and 5am pretty much every day, and I am less productive for it)
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Wow this sounds so bad that maybe I want to read it now 
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Do not like! I complain about this on your behalf
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Kiddo has state testing this week, he told me that he didn’t have reading homework this week. “Great,” I thought to myself, “one less thing to manage.” But lo and behold there’s the reading tracker log in his binder on a Wednesday afternoon.
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I took an oven-safe pan out of the oven, told myself to be careful with it, then two minutes later was serving food out of it and was like “This pan would be better off a few inches to the side” and grabbed the handle with my hand. Oops, still oven hot. Shout out to my nervous system for jerking my hand back so I only have minor burns and my complaint is that I entirely did it to myself.
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Thank you the shit post review is excellent and just what i was hoping but omg the book is far more unhinged than i imagined.
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I am so happy to be of service 
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This is true, but occasionally I find value. Less and less these days though, it’s true. Especially when it’s about working toward your goals… You mean my goal to keep my kids alive, or the one where I read all of Brandon sandersons books this year
Three “productivity” books I’ve liked in the last couple years- Four Thousand Weeks, Lazy Genius Way, and Stolen Focus. All of which are very atypical ones haha. I should probably give up on the genre, but used to enjoy it a lot.
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… that’s a lot of pages for 1 year
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To be fair, I started partway through last year. But I’ve read all the Mistborn ones, I’m on the final Roshar one, I’ve read war breaker, I’ve read the sunlit man, and I’ve read his short story anthology. So I think I just need to finish wind and truth and read Elantris and I might be done? Oh wait he’s got a couple non cosmere ones I forgot- tbd if I read those too or take a break first.
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Mistbourne and the secret project books were fun (although I started alloy of law like …. two months ago now and didn’t continue because he was annoying me) but I started Way of Kings and found it much too Epic and Important and not fun
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I really, deeply enjoy Roshar haha. But if you haven’t read Tress of the Emerald sea it’s 10/10
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That one was the first one I read and it was great! Pirate stories are the best
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I burned my arm getting a pan out of the oven the other day and obviously I am a slow learner because I have three other burn scars in the same area.
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That and Warbreaker are probably my favorites.
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I’ve done that dumb move so many times that now I have a rule for myself. I HAVE to leave the hot pad sitting on top of the hot handle. Because otherwise I will forget and touch it and be burned and sad.
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I usually do this too but this time I was like “I’ll do that in a minute”. Turns out that was the wrong choice!
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