Finished reading: Again The Magic by Lisa Kleypas 📚

Finished reading: I Must Say by Martin Short 📚🎧

Martin Short is a delight and listening to him read his memoir is wonderful.

Finished reading: The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker 📚

Finished reading: Worth Fighting For by Jesse Q. Sutanto 📚

🔖📚 Read The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist.

Book heist! Fascinating stuff!

Finished reading: The Death of Jane Lawrence: A Novel by Caitlin Starling 📚

🔖📚 Read A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries.

In New Braunfels ISD, middle and high school libraries will be closed for an indefinite amounts of time while books are reviewed. Read the article for suggestions on how to defend the freedom to read in Texas.

Finished reading: A Court of Mist and Fury (a Court of Thorns and Roses, 2) by Sarah J. Maas 📚

🔖📚 Read To Haunt and Be Haunted: On the Exhumation of Edgar Allan Poe by Ed Simon (Literary Hub).

I love that Simon is able to draw lines from Poe’s work to his burial, from his burial to his exhumation, to multiple author’s taphephobia to Barthes and the death of the author.

Finished reading: The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang 📚🎧

I love what I know of Esmé Weijun Wang, as a teacher, writer, and fellow traveler through the wilds of chronic illness. She reads the audiobook and her sweet voice lends such warmth to her beautiful essays.