Currently reading: The Best There is at what He Does: Examining Chris Claremont’s X-Men by Jason Powell 📚
Started watching X-Men 97 📺 which reminded me that I love the X-Men, so now I’m reading this and reading the comics mentioned alongside. Super fun.
Want to read: A Web of Our Own Making by Antón Barba-Kay 📚
My kid told me, “A cross between a piglet and a pug is a puglet.” When I replied, “Good night,” meaning to indicate that it was time to sleep and not to talk, he said, “I just wanted to give you that very valuable information.” I love him the most.
Finished reading: No Good Duke Goes Unpunished by Sarah MacLean 📚
I love every Sarah MacLean heroine.
Finished reading: One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean 📚
Lady Phillipa Marbury is a refreshing take on a bluestocking.
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.
📚🔖 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.
