Want to read: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman 📚

Me at 5 am: It’s fine, I’ll take a nap this afternoon.
Me at 5 pm: Why would I nap when there’s Bring It On fanfic I could be reading?

🔖 Yes to Masks. No to Parties. 2021 Will Be a Lot Like 2020: disheartening, but not surprising.

🔖 Run, Die, Repeat: How Roguelike Games Helped Us Get Through 2020 - Roguelikes reflect not only the cycle of the pandemic year, but also the cycle of chronic illness.

Here are my goals for 2021:

  • Learn about pain management & find pain management that works for me.
  • Read for pleasure & talk about what I’m reading.
  • Learn for pleasure & talk about what I’m learning.

Don’t @ me about SMART goals. Do @ me about what you’re reading/learning.

Want to read: Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning by Tom Vanderbilt 📚

📚 Friends, there are at least two modern retellings of Jane Eyre coming out this year: The Wife Upstairs and Mrs. Rochester’s Ghost.

🔖 Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us I will never not appreciate Ed Yong.

🔖 The Vaccine Rollout’s Known Knowns and More In Zeynep Tufecki’s Insight newsletter, Whitney R. Robinson explains the intersection of exposure, infection, and fatality risk and how it interacts with vaccine prioritization.

🔖 The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable I don’t have a word for how this article hit me, but it hit me hard.

Time to crowdsource a tagline! I’m going to start calling myself a Consulting Scholar-Librarian, with the tagline “Like Sherlock Holmes with ____.” But I’m still working out what goes in the blank. “More databases” isn’t specific enough. “An ORCiD” is too specific. Thoughts?

More dark academia books!

  • The Lessons, Naomi Alderman
  • The Rachel Papers, Martin Amis
  • Possession, A. S. Byatt
  • The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
  • The Magus, John Fowles
  • The Lake of Dead Languages, Carol Goodman
  • The Magicians, Lev Grossman
  • Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Dead Poets Society, N. H. Kleinbaum
  • A Separate Peace, John Knowles
  • The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart
  • The Year of the Gadfly, Jennifer Miller
  • The Wild Girls, Pat Murphy
  • A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik
  • Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl
  • Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling
  • Memoirs of a Woman Doctor, Nawal El Saadawi
  • Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Vicious, V. E. Schwab
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
  • Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
  • The Truants, Kate Weinberg

Me to W: You know how you sometimes for fun you give people advice on research design in a Fan Studies Discord server?
W: I have not had that experience, but go on.

Want to read: Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas 📚

Want to read: Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth 📚

I bought myself a Theracane and it’s not arriving until Thursday. I’m really looking forward to having it and also sad that I might still have this right shoulder/deltoid trigger point pain until then.

Currently reading: The Iliad by Homer; Caroline Alexander (translator) 📚

🗯️ Read Lore Olympus episodes 1 - 10.

Gorgeous art, fun characterization, planning to keep going.

🎮 Currently playing Hades on Nintendo Switch.

Been coveting this for a while, so when W. suggested getting it today, I squeed. Love the art & vibe so far. Button mashing & playing in God Mode.

I’m still obsessed with Dark Academia. Here are some books I’ve read or will read that have dark academia vibes.

Currently Reading

  • The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova

Want to Read

  • If We Were Villains, M. L. Rio
  • Bunny, Mona Awad
  • Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo
  • The Raven Cycle, Maggie Stiefvater
  • The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt

Finished Reading

  • The Secret History, Donna Tartt
  • Legendborn, Tracy Deonn

Currently reading: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova 📚

Living with chronic illness is really hard and I don’t like it.

Also, I don’t know who in the SNL writers’ room is a mom, but solidarity, friend.

To those of you who celebrate Christmas and have children, I hope your kids’ joy offsets your exhaustion today. To everyone else, I hope your Friday goes really well.

I have so many thoughts on Jingle Jangle! This article about how the movie centers Black Girl Magic addresses the aspects of representation in casting, hair, and clothing better than I ever could. Plus Jessica, Journey, & Jeronicus integrate math, physics, and magic. The maximalist costuming is so joyful!