Hello world, I am full of hormonally-induced ill feeling including headache, nausea, and cramps. Until further notice, I hate everything except my family and friends, romance novels, Pepsi with real sugar, and Star Trek.
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📚🔖 Here is the actual study with the evidence of the correlation between fiction reading and cognition.
🔖📚 Read If You Read a Lot of Fiction, Scientists Have Very Good News About Your Brain.
It’s always good to look at the actual studies behind news articles like this, but the evidence that reading fiction is associated with improved cognition suggests the importance of libraries, I think.
Just a little reproductive system education, because I’ve met many adults who have uteruses and don’t know this: the menstrual cycle refers to the entire span of time from the first day of one period to the day before the first day of the next. Not just when you’re shedding uterine lining.
🔖 Read a pair of pieces about art and mothering:
The ‘Impossible Life’ of Equal Devotion to Art and Mothering by Jessica Grose (NYT Gift Link)
“Is This The Best Use of My Time?” Sara Fredman in conversation with Catherine Ricketts, author of The Mother Artist.
Finished reading: A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean 📚
I do love a good 19th Century casino. Thank goodness for the romance-guaranteed happily ever after, because there was a lot of this book that made me sad when the two main characters had huge misunderstandings.
Thanks to everyone for your kind words over on Manton’s post about my joining the Micro.blog team!
I want to be clear that I’m not taking over for Jean as community manager. I’m the first of I hope many people who will contribute to curation and community work.
Finished reading: Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke’s Heart by Sarah MacLean 📚
Yes, I finished this less than 36 hours after I finished the last one.
Between chronic illness and acute illness it feels like I have so little time when I can be doing things besides resting.
🔖📚 Read How Pregnancy Forever Transforms the Body and the Mind by Lucy Jones (Literary Hub).