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... I'm reading Talking To Strangers at the same time as watching Celebrity Traitors and it's helpful: Focus on the game mechanics of "celebrity traitors", objective incentives and voting trails.

Babs has gone through childhood losing key family members. Now after WWI she is negotiating the marriage market at the time a million men are missing due to WWI. Her suitors engage in high risk activities sometimes resulting in death - some don't even have any money.

Life is a series of games for status: you go up: pride. You go down: shame. These games become a story.

Big Food's hijacking of our psychology to make us eat more sugars, fats and salt (no problem with protein apparently).

Stevenson anticipates Jung's concept of the shadow parts of the personality that the conscious "ego" refuses to acknowledge: Mr Hyde. I love the descriptions of 1880s London: "The first fog of the season" - London used to have a fog season?

How "big food" hijacked food processing to make us eat more sugars, fats and salt than we should. (Apparently eating protein is ok)

How "big food" sexes up food so we eat more than we should: sugars, fats and salt (there's nothing wrong with protein so far)

Stevenson anticipates Jung's concept of the shadow part of one's personality that the conscious "ego" refuses to accept: the evil Mr Hyde. I love the description of 1880s London: "the first fog of the season" - we used to have a fog season?

I like the idea that we don't have just one character (like Myers Briggs) but four, each with their own duties: organiser, emotional response, playful creative, and aware, spiritual, big picture character

The author suffered a slow-motion stroke and witnessed her mind with bits shutdown, giving an insight into how emotions and thinking interact.

Finished the series

Finished the series (all 9 books)