mourning
How Mo(u)rning Finds You.
not posted on father's day
books
napowrimo
For the 8th
My perfect places lately Have been the libraries and bookstores, Where I am amazed In unlimited untimed exploration– Not a lot of that, when you're adult and busy. Whether it is A new book for the pile Or scribbled titles with blurry photos, I add another bullet point
blaugust
Caught Up Yet? Blaugust Authors and Books
Top five (or 10 or 20) authors / book series. ...I'll just. I'll just keep it at five. And then five extra. Otherwise we might be here all day! ...Did I do these out of order? Authors * Ursula K. Le Guin * Octavia Butler * Nalo Hopkinson * Daniel José
books
Hardcovers
My eReader is actually not within arm's reach today. For Pride month, for Queer Black Liberation month, for Juneteenth, I looked to my stack of hardcover/physical books that had been slowly growing for the past six months. I was either gifted them or found in the myriad
culture
I'm writing today, damn it! / Not My Typical Thing
Maybe it's the fact that I wrote every single day last month, or the fact that my default is I write a lot as if to make up for the lost time. At only 202 words a day, I'm still pretty much crushing it. But, yeah.
culture
Revisiting that To-Read List...
Remember that To-Read list last year? I gave it a honest try, before getting sidetracked. If a long-anticipated book wasn't dropping, science fiction was calling my name. I read a ton of that last year, according to my StoryGraph. What I Did Read * Around the Way
slice of life
Trading Recs
I love my eReader! I have the Kobo Libre2, and I take it practically everywhere. I grew up with this sage advice, and thanks to technology it is even easier to follow it: Always carry a book with you. I do a lot of waiting. In the DMV line? Partner
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Speaking of that To-Read List...
Bloganuary writing prompt: What books do you want to read? This year, I'm making a point to go through my To-Read list of over 300 books. Some are recent, but most have been around for quite some time, and some may be pruned as I lost interest
culture
That Ramble About "Death's End"
Damn, this is embarrassing that I still can't spell embarrassing. Nevertheless, I'm still glad I found this draft just bumbling about when I was switching from Evernote to Joplin. I wouldn't shut up about this science fiction series and my nesting partner finally picked
slice of life
The Books I Left Behind
Do you ever think about The books you left behind? Every time you moved-- and then-- The very first move was an adventure to something greater. Our first real house, with a garage and and attic and my own room. The move after that, a grander adventure away from home.
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Wound Up: rereading The Windup Girl
I blame my depression/anxiety on top of current events, but lately I've had the urge to reread something-punk dystopian hellscapes. The Windup Girl, specifically. When I first picked up the novel years ago, it took me some determination to get through the (what I thought was
