📚🗨️ “She read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance, science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.” Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

Finished reading: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo 📚

This is a re-read, because when I tried to read the third in the trilogy, Dead Beat, I realized I couldn’t remember much that happened in the other two. Leigh Bardugo is so good at the job.

📚🗨️ “I want to live to grow old… I want to sit on my porch and drink foul-smelling tea and yell at passersby. I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.” Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

🔖💀 Read Here Stands Loss: Lessons From Victorian Mourning Culture.

🔖💀 Read What Happens When Death Walks Into the Classroom?.

🔖💀 Read Why Death Deserves Its Own Beat.

🔖💀 Read ‘I feel like I’m cancelling out her life’: the wrenching work of clearing out a parent’s home by Stephanie Wood (The Guardian).

🔖💀 Read Go Ahead and Laugh at Mediums. They May Be On to Something. by Sarah Wildman (NYT).

🔖💀 Read Is Grief Dead? How Digital Resurrection Technologies Affect Bereavement by Delaney Rebernik (Journal of Medical Internet Research).

🔖 Read What if we just stopped? by Dan Sinker.

I’ve mostly stopped. I rarely check Bluesky or Instagram. When I do, I deliberately avoid stuff that makes me angry. I go to NPR when I feel a need to get in touch with the news. I blog. I chat on Discord. I think my life is better for this.