Finished reading: Snowbound with the CEO by Shannon Stacey 📚

Sweet, short. Stacey wastes no time in making things steamy, but leaves plenty to the imagination.

📚 Went to the library to pick up my hold on I Dream of Dinner (so You Don’t Have To): Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes and Nona the Ninth was waiting for me on the shelf beside it. 😍

📚 Finished reading An Introduction to Media Fan Studies by Lori Morimoto.

A super accessible introduction with helpful paraphrases of jargon-filled pre-fan studies cultural studies scholarship and many new directions for future reads. Highly recommend.

💬📚 “‘Pure,’ ideologically unadulterated consumption/fandom may be a possibility, but it’s not what most media fans experience or enact.” Lori Morimoto, An Introduction to Media Fan Studies

What’s that? Oh, just a quick pamphlet bind of Lori Morimoto’s An Introduction to Media Fan Studies 📚

💬📚 “The acafan… is one who is able to occupy the spaces of both fandom and academia and speak authoritatively on both.” A Fan Studies Primer, “Introduction,” edited by Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams

Finished reading: Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚

Reading my way through Wyngraf’s Appendix C (for cozy!).

📚 Tom Bombadil (😍) sings SO. MUCH.

💬📚 “Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

📚💬📝 “…the work of critical thinking and theorizing is itself an expression of political praxis that constructs a foundation wherein individual action can be united with collective struggle.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work