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Category: books and reading

  • End of Year Reflection: Go Fuck Yourself, 2017

    I feel like I’m saying that a lot these days. Every New Year’s I turn to the past year and scream BURN IN HELL YOU ASSHOLE and then turn to the next year like it’s going to be better. And then it’s not. Or it is in some ways, but worse in other ways. Anyway,…

  • What I’m Reading

    End of March, 2017 edition. Whoa, this post has proper capitalization! Wonders are not ceasing! Anyway, it’s Friday, so I’m going to talk about books I’m reading/have read/plan to read. Actually it being Friday has nothing to do with; I just wanted to post this and today seemed good. If I post this sort of…

  • life updates

    oh hey, i remembered this thing exists. ok, so, long and short of it — i’ve been up all night and i can’t see straight at this point. yesterday i got informed we have another flood. for those of you keeping score at home, this is flood number 3 in our time here. the first…

  • My Dysfunctional Relationship with Library Books

    I adore libraries. I love them so much. They are my happy place, and I have a not-so-secret but currently-impractical-as-fuck desire to be a librarian. (Impractical because, um, yeah, don’t have money to go back to school for a COMPLETELY NEW SET OF SKILLS.) I love to go to the library and browse books. The…

  • May Reads

    I read things last month! I did some reviews! Here they are!

  • The Writer’s Journey, Chapter 1

    The book is a look at the Hero’s Journey and how it can apply to writing and a writer’s life.

  • [Friday reads | fiction] The Girlfriend, by Abigail Barnette

    The Girlfriend, by Abigail Barnette (ie, Jenny Trout, my idol), is the sequel to the much-loved The Boss. I was lucky enough to win a copy in the giveaway she held in August. I read the first five chapters before Pirates and Faeries, and now I’m trying to ration myself on the rest of them.…

  • May ’13 Book Haul (or I Have an Infestation of Vashta Nerada Please Send HEY WHO TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS?)

    Hey, it’s June! Holy fuck when did that happen. Anyway, as I actually acquired new books last month I figured I’d share which ones I got with y’all, and how I plan to never ever read them. (I have too many books. Someday they will revolt. Either they will, or the alien flesh-eating beasties that…

  • Book Review: The Boss by Abigail Barnette

    Full disclosure: I was given an ARC of this book on the condition I would review it. The Boss is one of those books that I didn’t think I’d get into all that much. Not because I don’t love Jenny Trout/Abigail Barnette. I do love her. I sort of hero worship her from afar and…

  • Fiction Friday Reads: Aristeia: A Little Rebellion, by Wayne Basta

    For Fiction Friday Reads I talk a bit about the Aristeia series by Wayne Basta. Revolution, rebellion, military sci-fi, and the Bechdel test.