Notes
🧵 I made a pillow! Well, I covered a pillow. I used instructions from the Sewing 10 class from Brit + Co. My seams were so wobbly that I actually had to go back and hand sew a gap closed. I used a messy whip stitch to finish it but I’ve hidden the seam on the bottom here.
📚💬 “When no help comes from outside, a lost crop becomes a famine.” Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
Finished reading: Once Upon You and Me by Timothy Janovsky 📚
Another delight from Timothy Janovsky. Full review coming soon!
Finished reading: Idol by Kristen Callihan 📚🎧
Finished reading: Tangled Up In You by Christina Lauren 📚
A super cute Tangled retelling!
Disabled writer heroes: Leigh Bardugo. Esmé Weijun Wang. Johanna Hedva. I have more but these are the ones top of mind at this moment.
Finished reading: A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke by Adriana Herrera 📚
I love this book. Full review soon!
I’ve been conducting inventory on our 5000ish volume school library and it’s been going well. It’s surprisingly physical work. Today my arms don’t like it and I’m having to take more breaks than I have previously. This is an example of the variable disability of chronic illness. ♿
🔖 Read The real reason Musk retreated by Daniel Hunter (Waging Nonviolence).
This article about the power of collective action really made me feel hopeful.
Finished reading: Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey 📚
A fascinating book about what our ghosts say about us.
📚💬📝 “Tending to your body and mind is a way to tend to your work.” Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice
📚💬📝 “A disabled life is a life interrupted.” Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice
Finished reading: An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera 📚
Another re-read. I basically cried through the last two chapters.
📚💬 “In that moment Manuela began counting her blessings to have found friends who not only came to the rescue but who knew there was no problem in life one could not tackle armed with good cheese and champagne.” Adriana Herrera, An Island Princess Starts a Scandal
📚💬 “Ghost stories, for good or ill, are how cities make sense of themselves: how they narrate the tragedies of their last, weave cautionary tales for the future.“Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places 👻
Finished reading: A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera 📚
This is a re-read. It’s a testament to Adriana Herrera’s work that even though it’s only six months since I originally read it, I found this riveting and didn’t want to skip or skim at all.
Finished reading: Firelight by Sophie Jordan 📚
I’m just going to sit back and enjoy Julia Bullard’s keynote, I Am Giving This Talk Instead of Sleeping, will share links when the #FanLIS2025 videos go live!
Now Billy Tringali, Maria Alberto and Jeremiah Martinez with Fun, Friends, and Fitness – Why Fans Attend Anime Conventions
“Students who research a topic related to a personal fandom feel more confident in the research process because they are already positioned as an expert…” #FanLIS2025
Next! Amber Sewell with Fandom does belong in the classroom: Designing a study of fandom, student confidence, and intertextual expertise #FanLIS2025
Chason-McCarthy discusses critically endangered crafts that fanbinding can revitalize, e.g. foreedge painting, paper marbling, tanning. #FanLIS2025