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Humans Used to Sleep in Two Shifts, And Maybe We Should Start It Again sciencealert.com

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This piece by Sarah Lonsdale describes the kind of literary friendship I fantasize about having. Who wants to be my literary bff?

How Literary Female Friendships Shaped the Fiction Market ‹ Literary Hub lithub.com

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Highlights & Notes

Naomi Royde-Smith was an astute literary editor of the Saturday Westminster and brought Macaulay, an awkward “innocent from the Cam” as she described herself, into her circle of friends, who seemed to Macaulay “to be more sparklingly alive than any in my home world.”

Please. Bring me into your literary circle.

Macaulay would often stay in her friend’s Knightsbridge home where they held soirées for authors and journalists to bolster each other’s standing and forge mutually supportive networks.

We can host soirées. I’ll set up the video chat.

Tell me about your favorite literary friendships and relationships! I’m especially fond of the Shelleys, who wrote collaborative diaries. ♥️

🔖 Laurie Penny’s WIRED piece about falling in love over Zoom is one of the most hopeful things I’ve read in a long time. It makes me really happy.

🔖 This NPR piece about keeping warm and embracing wintry outdoor adventures is exactly the kind of thing a Florida baby like me needs. I want to enjoy the outdoors in winter; I’ve just never learned how!

I really enjoyed reading this piece about Star Wars stormtrooper strategy & tactics, which is super unlike me. 📺🍿

🔖In ‘The Mandalorian,’ Stormtroopers Have Finally Discovered Tactics wired.com

🔖Lee Skallerup Bessette sums up so much:

Just because its hard, doesn’t mean it’s good and when everything is hard and you have issues with executive functioning, how can you even ever tell the difference?

🔖📚 From Petra Mayer at NPR: Welcome To Story Hour: 100 Favorite Books For Young Readers

Well, that’s a help in choosing which books to share with my kid next. A nice mix of classics and newer stuff.

🔖📚 From Megan Mabee at Book Riot: How The Hunger Games Prequel Helped Me Realize I’ve Changed

I can relate to Mabee’s realization that being a mother has changed how she responds to books.

🔖 Here’s a study that combines my loves for qualitative coding, comedy, and tween media: More than Just a Laughing Matter: A Coding Framework of Humor in Media Entertainment for Tweens and Teens

🔖2015 Kimberly would be SO EXCITED about this article: ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’ Using Improvisation to Hone Library Employees’ Customer Service Skills 📓