Episode #265: Chop Suey! Q&A, Four Stages of Retirement, and Chat GPT
Grace and Alvina have an odds and ends episode where they answer some listener questions, including a couple about the middle grade market. They discuss a TedTalk about the four stages of retirement, and they talk about a New York Times piece where author Curtis Sittenfeld challenged ChatGPT in writing a short story beach read. And then they give some book recomendations.
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How have you been?
Grace is working on illustrations for a New Year Ling & Ting book! Alvina has been trying to clean out her inbox in preparation for the fall rush. This weekend Alvina went to a free Reggae concert in the park to see Lila Ike.
Q&A
4 Phases of Retirement
Here is the Ted Talk that Alvina was talking about and inspired by:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMHMOQ_054U
Chat GPT
The book friends talk about their experiences using Chat GPT for writing and for reading.
Book Recommendations:
Grace recommends: Words from Hell by Jess Zafarris and Once Upon a Word by Jess Zafarris, and Tasty: A History of Yummy Experiments (A Graphic Novel), Exclusion and the Chinese American Story by Sarah-Soonling Blackburn
Alvina recommends: Tessa Miyata is So Unlucky by Julie Abe, Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho, Real Americans by Rachel Khong.
Gratefuls
Grace is grateful that she was able to go with her family to the Topiary Garden in Portsmouth, RI. Happiness is lot’s of little small things. Alvina is grateful for the beautiful weather and the blueberries from their blueberry bush.
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