Finished reading: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo 📚
This is a re-read, because when I tried to read the third in the trilogy, Dead Beat, I realized I couldn’t remember much that happened in the other two. Leigh Bardugo is so good at the job.
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Hi there! I'm Kimberly Hirsh. My pronouns are she/ her/hers. I'm somebody's mom. I work as a school librarian. I have a PhD in information and library science. I love to read, play tabletop and video games, and make things. I used to perform in theater and improv comedy and I may one day again. I have been extremely online since 1993 and still enjoy tinkering on the web. I manage multiple chronic illnesses. I'm married to my kid's dad. We have a cat.
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📚🗨️ “I want to live to grow old… I want to sit on my porch and drink foul-smelling tea and yell at passersby. I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.” Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House
🔖💀 Read Why Death Deserves Its Own Beat.
🔖💀 Read ‘I feel like I’m cancelling out her life’: the wrenching work of clearing out a parent’s home by Stephanie Wood (The Guardian).
🔖💀 Read Go Ahead and Laugh at Mediums. They May Be On to Something. by Sarah Wildman (NYT).
🔖💀 Read Is Grief Dead? How Digital Resurrection Technologies Affect Bereavement by Delaney Rebernik (Journal of Medical Internet Research).
🔖 Read What if we just stopped? by Dan Sinker.
I’ve mostly stopped. I rarely check Bluesky or Instagram. When I do, I deliberately avoid stuff that makes me angry. I go to NPR when I feel a need to get in touch with the news. I blog. I chat on Discord. I think my life is better for this.