TWO MORE DAYS OF NECK BRACE. Oh God it’s all I can think about. I have tried to be generally cool about this neck brace (with limited success — I fucking hate this fucking neck brace and it makes me miserable) over the course of the last six weeks, but as my day of freedom draws closer I am turning into a rage monster about it. Every time I see a bed I can’t lie down and read on (which is all the beds), I’m freshly furious about it. BUT. Two! More! Days! Then freedom! I CANNOT WAIT. Link up…
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Old and tired: Feeling guilty about reading comics in trades rather than issues because I know issue sales are how comics publishers make decisions New and wired: Feminist righteousness about an outdated sales model that refuses to account for the ways new comics readers tend to consume comics (ie trades and digital). What I’m saying is that I just read four trades of Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen’s series Descender, and I dug it so much, yet I am making no plans to read it in issues going forward. And I don’t feel guilty about it! I don’t! Reading in…
Leave a CommentIt’s a book preview podcast! We’re talking about the books we’re excited to read in Spring 2018 — slightly belatedly, because I had a medical incident — and reviewing Mohsin Hamid’s book Exit West, which gave us a lot to think and talk about.
You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!
Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around.
1:44 – What we’re reading
5:26 – Polar explorer update #1
6:21 – Polar explorer update #2
8:41 – Update on our fall 2017 book preview
14:16– Spring 2018 Book Preview
26:17 – Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
41:55 – Our first Hatening read
Learn more about teenage explorer Jade Hameister here. You can watch Ernest Shackleton Loves Me at Broadway HD if you are curious!
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Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour
Transcript is coming soon and will be available under the jump.
Leave a CommentHappy early Valentine’s Day! Last week there came an article in the New York Times wailing that YA books don’t contain sex anymore. This was a baffling assertion on a number of fronts. The week before that, I wrote and submitted my February YA column for the wonderful blog Lady Business, in which I built a rec list of YA books where the main characters have sex and they’re fine. Because among the many things YA does well is that it sometimes models healthy decisions about sex. The kids are all right. Don’t panic. That column is out today, so…
Leave a CommentHappy Sunday! Despite feeling exhausted and fed up with my choices this week, I realize looking back on it that it included a lot of terrific things. Let’s review, and then y’all can tell me what’s been good in your lives this week. Happy about My new record shelf! This one here: I have been wanting this for a while — ever since I moved, my record player has just been upstairs on top of a bookshelf, and my records have been in boxes — and I finally had the budget available to buy it! I love the way it…
Leave a CommentHappy Friday, friends! When my alarm went off this morning I lay in bed for two (2) minutes wishing not to get up, and I only successfully did get up by reminding myself that I can sleep late tomorrow. I AM SO TIRED. But here are some good links for you to enjoy. Emily Asher Perrin’s Tor.com piece on identifying with uncool characters spoke to my nerdy, rule-abiding heart. Akwaeke Emezi talks about finding a path to a truer identity, through Nigerian spiritual beliefs and Western surgeries. This interview with Jia Tolentino reminds me of so many reasons why I…
Leave a CommentHere’s what happened in January: I had to wear this neck brace that made it impossible to ever sit comfortably. In part because of this, I was very, very cranky in the month of January.1 Every time I thought about going out and doing something, I’d be like “ugh I’m too cranky for that so instead I will stay home and read and that will cheer me up.” But because it was impossible to sit comfortably, staying home and reading did not cheer me up. But because I am very stupid, I did not figure this out until I had…
5 CommentsGUISE I have to say that my month of January was significantly derailed by the thing where a car hit me and I had to start wearing a terrible neck brace because my neck is lowkey broken. And I did not do Something on Sunday, and I do not want y’all to think that this means I am finished with it. I am not finished with it! It is still the Trump presidency and we still need to talk and hear about good things. I have a big one for this week. Y’all are about to be shook. My sister…
14 CommentsHi friends! It’s Tuesday, and I’m over at Lady Business recapping the second episode of the greatest TV show in the world, Black Sails. Stop on by and let me know if you agree with my assessment of Eleanor Guthrie’s true love situation. Or if you haven’t watched Black Sails, my God, please watch Black Sails.
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