Some years on my birthday, I share who I want to be in the following year.

This year, in addition to the stuff from earlier years, I want to add:

I want to be someone who gives the same attention to writing that she has to other creative hobbies.

🎮 Finished Metroid: Zero Mission.

This is a remake of the original NES Metroid with a lengthy epilogue. I mostly enjoy Metroidvanias for the exploration.

I think my thumbs need a rest after this. It might be time to play an RPG or puzzle game. But eventually, I’ll move on to Super Metroid.

I’ve been doing French on Duolingo for a bit over a year (and Dutch before that) and this morning I realized I can translate a not insubstantial amount of Threw It On The Ground into French.

Je suis un adulte!

Mon pere n’est pas un téléphone! Duh!

Hey friends of Micro.blog.

  1. I am a contractor working mostly on M.b curation for about 5 hours a week. So if you perceive I’m not doing as much as Jean did, you’re right!

  2. I also haven’t been around for about a week because of a big family medical emergency. Everyone’s okay now.

💗

Finished reading: Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean 📚

I love this one. The hero is so dreamy.

“I luxiriated in books.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

📚💬 “All I ever wanted was to belong, to wear that hat of belonging.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

📚💬 “Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to show up anywhere.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

📚💬 “I understood immediately the thrill of seeing oneself in print. It provides some sort of primal verification: you are in print; therefore you exist.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

📚💬 “One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

🔖📚 Read Notes on Romance Novels as “Camp”.

Andrea, author of the Shelf Love newsletter, does an amazing job of arguing for romance novels as Camp.

Finished reading: The Day of the Duchess by Sarah MacLean 📚

This one made me cry. I just really love a second chance.

Finished reading: A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean 📚

Finished reading: The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean 📚

Me: What if I eat yogurt and granola for every meal today?

That thing where you’ve just spent a couple days immersed in something over which you have no control, so you very carefully align all the Nintendo games on the shelf.

Want to read: The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives by Adam Smyth 📚

📚🔖 Read The Literary Power of Hobbits: How JRR Tolkien Shaped Modern Fantasy by Verlyn Flieger (Literary Hub)

Dr. Flieger says:

  1. Tolkien created modern fantasy via fae-ery, the creations of secondary worlds.
  2. The inclusion of hobbits in Middle Earth grounds Tolkien ’s fantasy.

🔖 Read Ten Years Out of Academia by Anne Helen Petersen.

I’m 3 years out from my doctoral defense and 6 months out from holding an academic job. I told an internet friend:

Right now it feels like librarian is the identity that was always really mine and academic was borrowed.

Finished reading: The Price of Pleasure by Kresley Cole 📚

This one made me smile at the end.

🎉 It’s Juneteenth! The National Museum of African-American History and Culture interviewed the museum’s curators about Juneteenth and shared what they had to say in three posts:

  1. What is Juneteenth?
  2. Who Celebrates Juneteenth?
  3. Why is Juneteenth Important?

🤎🖤

Finished reading: The Captain of All Pleasures by Kresley Cole 📚

I do love a sailor heroine.

Hey Internet in general and Micro.blog specifically! I was on vacation and away from much of the Internet from 6/8 - 6/15. Is there anything I missed that you think I should know about?

Finished reading: If You Desire by Kresley Cole 📚

Somehow forgot to post this when I finished it. It was my favorite of the MacCarrick Brothers trilogy.

Finished reading: If You Deceive by Kresley Cole 📚