Hannah Sto Helit

(Actually I’d have put Sleeping Murder on that list too if it weren’t already mentioned.)

Oh yeah that one is fun! Some of my faves are The Moving Finger, Sad Cypress, Lord Edgware Dies, Murder at the Vicarage, After the Funeral, The Man in the Brown Suit, The Body in the Library, and Why Didn’t They Ask Evans.

It’s very fun! I mentioned in another reply that my favorite Christies are the B-tier ones because they let loose a bit more and this one definitely applies!

Yeah, ATTWN is great but was actually previously done in The Invisible Host by Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning- same concept if not quite as good (but still fun). Roger Ackroyd was early enough in the puzzle-mystery genre that it genuinely blew people’s minds.

I actually prefer a lot of her B tiers! It just feels like she let loose more in books like Sad Cypress and The Moving Finger and Lord Edgware Dies.

Both were published- Curtain and Sleeping Murder.

...which infamous trippy novel and how did I miss it

All I know is that it's not Aleph Shin though I'm... sure that would have its own things to say about the exact current moment lmao

I keep seeing leftists QTing stuff about him blaming liberals/centrists for his popularity and vice versa... I wish it was because really it was neither but sadly I think it's because it's both

Wait what, I didn’t know this!

I’m now laughing picturing someone mad at Kars4Kids bc they support Birthright AND Hezbollah

Well this is a change from the many many online people who think Kars4Kids supports Birthright

YU is a totally different world than what @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social is talking about here- see this story from a friend whose dad is a YU RY, another friend’s brother asked her “does your father think it’s allowed to read Percy Jackson given its polytheism” and she was like “I read them so yes?”

Honestly I think I'm going to delete bc we need to hide this from the antisemitten

Technically my parents' block is about a hundred yards outside "the mile" so lots of people in the extended neighborhood are in it and HOO BOY the conversation around it is toxic from pretty much every angle
To put it in Reddit terms, ESH

I mean it was explicitly meant to be just exactly like traditional European nationalism at the time- Jews went to tremendous political lengths within their respective countries to be considered national minorities.

Ohhhh yeah this is just the whole "suburbs of Monsey," though of course now Skver is attempting a Uno-reverse move lol

It is very funny because everyone talks about all the the hasidics in Lakewood and I'm like "well NOW there are hasidics"

Probably just a tad (late fifties)

We were actually just watching their home movies from the trip and it looked very different than it does now lol, my brother was having fun doing a then-and-now comparison
(My grandfather actually was in the middle of/had just completed six months of post-marriage kollel at the time, a rare luxury!)

My grandparents went to Lakewood for their honeymoon!

According to my brother there still are a few! He also said that a decent percentage of the yeshiva maggid shiur types (I forget their terminology/hierarchy) above the age of 50 who grew up in Lakewood went to the community day school.

Yeah I'm more in the "Amalek is yetzer hara" camp myself

In general there are few people I wish dead, but there are a lot of people who I wish had their internet shut off and their mouths sewn shut (with an alternate form of nutrition provided)

Hey, the gemara in Sanhedrin notes that there were descendants of Amalek by way of Haman living and learning Torah in Bnei Brak, if they didn't immediately go Full Shmuel Alef at them then, why would we now

Right but to my knowledge HP Lovecraft wasn't a Jew who claimed marriage between two Jews was bad

Isn't he married to a Jew

(I feel like the lauding of Ted's forgiveness is precisely because it's optional, but forgiving someone after being asked for forgiveness puts you on higher ground. Apologizing PROPERLY and SINCERELY, with all the stages of teshuva, takes a lot of emotional work and humility.)

Reminds me that I had a whole rant back in the day about how, in Ted Lasso S1, as a Jew I saw so much more strength in Rebecca's apology to Ted than the majority of viewers seem to have seen in Ted's acceptance of the apology. It's great to forgive, but not necessary. Apologizing is necessary.

I know with East Ramapo there were people being all "they don't pay property taxes!!!" and I'm like "no, it's literally they opposite, they DO pay property taxes and ALSO tuition, that is not the problem"

I was just in Lakewood and that is indeed exactly what it was like (by which I mean I ran over a few pot holes and there was a bit of a crowd at Mike's Chicken)

Interesting! Where does he sit then?

I do not, but would love to know...!