I’m extra psyched about July’s Atlas Obscura Finding Wonder book club pick, The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales. It’s got that perfect new paperback smell and is about the deep ocean, a place that fascinates me. 📚
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W is reading M a Pokemon manga where a professor invited Ash & Goh to be her research fellows, which they see as great for their careers, and I don’t think W or M appreciates my color commentary about the exploitative nature of unpaid research fellowships.
Currently reading: The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by A.J. Jacobs 📚
This is the June pick for the Atlas Obscura book club at Literati. Great fun!
I already spend very little time on Facebook but now their mobile web UI has little notification badges on each icon even when there are 0 notifications so as I’m not looking to increase anxiety in my life, I logged out.
No YOU’RE looking up contact juggling tutorials on YouTube to send to your spouse.
In our work team meeting today we spent a significant chunk of time discussing the history of Star Trek fanfic and its trajectory from zines to web to fanbound books. And it ended up being relevant to work stuff. I love my job. 🖖🏻📚
A little less than 12 years ago, I attended my first American Library Association Annual Conference. I’ve been to 3 more since then. My advice: focus on YALSA and GameRT. Get as many free comics as possible. If you’re exhibiting, offer candy.
Literati: Hey if you don’t want to read a super cool book about the deep ocean as part of the Atlas Obscura book club, log in and change bookclubs by the end of the day.
Me: archives email