Notes
Want to read: The Lightmaker’s Manifesto: How to Work for Change Without Losing Your Joy by Karen Walrond 📚
📚💬 I’ve heard a lot about the excellent disability representation in the Six of Crows duology. Obviously Kaz is phenomenal; Wylan is awesome, too. This quote is what Wylan thinks about how Kaz and the Dregs treat him. It’s pure asset-based treatment and I love it. “They valued the things he could do instead of punishing him for the things he couldn’t.”
📚 In Crooked Kingdom, Inej thinks about her hope that she and Kaz could be “more than two wary creatures united by their distrust of the world” and I’m wondering how does @LBardugo know about my marriage? 💬
Hey guess what? You can download the Creative Commons-licensed version of my dissertation on my dissertation page!
Getting a lot of targeted ads for EdDs like “Heeeey noticed you just finished a doctorate, want another?”
[GIF: Seth Meyer laughing and then saying “No”]
Just deleted “expected” before “May 2021” in my CV.
📚 How do you keep track of quotes that resonate with you? I usually write them in my Bullet Journal or post them to my blog, but sometimes I snap a quick photo. This is a page from FRANKENSTEIN that resonated with me back in December, although I can’t remember exactly which part spoke to me. I remember feeling like the way Victor Frankenstein spoke about his creature was how I was feeling about my dissertation.
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[A page from FRANKENSTEIN.]
📺 I’ve got 2 episodes left of SHRILL. It’s so weird being right in the middle of Annie and Gabe’s ages, too old to be an up-and-coming earnest millennial, too young to be a punk Gen Xer who had to negotiate growing up while staying cool.
Want to read: Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews by Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel 📚
📺 Fran is always my favorite on SHRILL. Today it’s because she says, “I just don’t think I can work somewhere where I’m not universally admired and beloved.” 💓
Today in “But they’re worth it”: my kid showed me a tiny grape as though he had found an amazing treasure. If you like kids but don’t want your own, definitely borrow one sometime so you can have moments like this.
Yesterday I did 3 things so today my body wants me to do no things. I hope the plan I made with my Dr gets my thyroid levels back to optimal. These relapses to hypothyroidism creep up on me slowly & I don’t notice them until I feel like total garbage.
📚 Sometimes I have to start a book several times before it holds my interest. A GAME OF THRONES was like that, but eventually I caught it in the right moment for me and A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE became one of my favorite series. What’s a book you had to start several times but ended up loving?
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[A brass navigational tool and a Tyrion Lannister Funko Pop figure sit on top of a stack of books.]
I carry a tote bag around my house as I move through my day. I never know what I’ll be in the mood to read if I have the time to, so I usually have at least a couple books in there. This is my stack from the beginning of April 2020. How many books do you carry around with you at a time?
📚 Right before I started my Grishaverse catch up, I went on a dark academia spree. These were three of the books I read as part of that. They’re each very different from the other and each excellent. I highly recommend any of them. IF WE WERE VILLAINS has classic dark academia vibes with undergrads in a Shakespeare conservatory covering up a shared secret. BUNNY is a surreal and beautiful story set in a graduate writing program. THE HISTORIAN is an epic novel of following Dracula’s story and a family of scholars as they unravel mysteries from New York to Romania, with stops in Istanbul and Hungary along the way.
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I have Mona Awad’s next book, ALL’S WELL, in my @netgalley queue and am excited to read it. What’s a book you’re looking forward to reading soon?
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[Three books are stacked on a coffee table in front of a brick fireplace.]
📚 Remember how I said my hammock was my favorite reading spot? Here’s a flashback to me reading SIX OF CROWS in my hammock a few weeks ago. The purple thing is @the_book_seat, which has changed my reading life. I have chronic pain and sometimes my wrists hurt too much to hold up a heavy book like this one. The Book Seat does it for me. (This isn’t a paid endorsement or ad. My husband got me the Book Seat for my birthday last year. I just really love it.)
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[A copy of SIX OF CROWS is open to Chapter 30, a Jesper chapter. Green trees are in the background. The edge of a purple cushion is in the foreground.]
Let’s get this virtual graduation show on the road. [My son and I smiling. I am wearing doctoral regalia, including a dark blue PhD hood and velvet tam. A lightsaber blur is in the bottom right corner.]
