Finished reading: Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale 📚

A sweet historical romance involving a Quaker and a rakish Duke.

Want to read: The Witch of Woodland by Laurel Snyder 📚

🔖📚 Read BookTok encourages reading as an aesthetic and no one is safe from its gaze by Elena Cavender (Mashable).

Insightful piece about how limiting our reading to a particular aesthetic connects with our attention being commodified.

Finished reading: Mr. & Mrs. Witch by Gwenda Bond 📚

Loved it. Scorchingly hot, fun secret agent hijinks. Highly recommend.

I am reading Gwenda Bond’s Mr. & Mrs. Witch right now and one of the 🔥 scenes actually made me cry because it was so beautiful and made me so happy. 📚

Want to read: How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information by Jillian M. Hess 📚

Want to read: It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World by Mikaela Loach 📚

Want to read: Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc 📚

I’m trying to see myself as others see me. Would you please tell me:

1. When have you seen me happiest?
2. What do you come to me for?
3. Where do I stand out against my peers?

Qs from Christina Wallace’s The Portfolio Life 📚

🔖📚 Read Roman Polanski, David Bowie, and a New Solution to the Problem of Art Made by Monstrous Men by Laura Miller (Slate).

The magnitude of an artist’s personal transgressions sometimes matters less than the nature of the attachment it disrupts.