Finished reading: Batgirl: Year One (2023 Edition) by Chuck Dixon 📚

I’m doing a deep dive on one of pop culture’s favorite librarians. Did you know that, like me, Batgirl has a PhD in information & library science?

🔖📚 Read Navigating the Brain Poisoning of Book Censorship by Kelly Jensen.

A great piece about how even fighting censorship can prime you to start looking for content in books that isn’t there.

Finished reading: The Shining by Stephen King 📚

Saw someone comment they’d heard Emily Wilson’s Odyssey translation is feminist and before they try it they’d like to start with a more faithful translation. I wonder how much readers understand about the creative choices translators have to make and challenges to being “faithful.” 📚

Finished reading: His Risk to Take by Tessa Bailey 📚

Finished reading: Firestarter by Stephen King 📚

I know a lot of Stephen King books are considered scary, but so many of them, including this one, make me sad. Compulsively readable as King always is.

📚🗯️ Just read Detective Comics #359, the debut of Batgirl aka Dr. Barbara Gordon. I love it and I love her.

I just finished Book 1 of Emily Wilson’s translation of the Iliad and she’s done incredible work. The language is so accessible. This is the most readable translation of classical literature that I’ve ever read. Highly recommend already. 📚

August is the month of the sealey challenge, an annual challenge to read a book of poetry every day in August. You can modify the challenge to suit your life. The goal is just to read more poetry. I’m going to try to read Emily Wilson’s translation of The Iliad. 📚

Finished reading: Too Fast to Fall by Victoria Dahl 📚