🔖 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.