Notes
📚 When I’m catching up on a long-running series, I sometimes forget that there are people who, for example, couldn’t read 19 Immortals After Dark books in a row and, in fact, had to wait a year or more for the next one to come out, and that I, too, can wait.
Did you know that April is School Library Month? It’s true! Did you know that I’m trained as and have worked as a school librarian? Also true!
Finished reading: Suddenly You by Lisa Kleypas 📚
A lovely historical about an author and a publisher who fall in lust and then love. Her body is described as voluptuous, bountiful, abundant, generous. It’s clear that these are attractive things for her to be. Quite spicy. Content warning: miscarriage.
Finished reading: The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang 📚
A lovely romance novel with an autistic heroine. I highlighted a lot.
Finished reading: Matilda by Roald Dahl 📚
We went to see Matilda the Musical and I loved it. I’d watched the Netflix movie of the musical and years ago the movie with Mara Wilson, but I’d never actually read the book. It’s a lovely book but I think the musical is even better.
Finished reading: MacRieve by Kresley Cole 📚
This one is beautifully done as always. There’s a traumatic backstory of childhood sexual abuse for the hero and the way it impacts his relationship with the protagonist broke my heart. But of course there’s a happy ending because romance. ♥️
🔖 Read Why I Celebrate The Spring Equinox As The Real “New Year”.
I really love this. I want to live more in line with the seasons. Spring is a great time to make the changes so many people want to make in the new year: eat more produce, move around more.
Finished reading: Lothaire by Kresley Cole 📚
Of course if you’re reading Immortals After Dark you must read this one. You simply must.
🍿 Watched Yes Day.
This is a super fun family movie! I love it in no small part because of Jennifer Garner and Jenna Ortega but also it’s just super fun.
I’m celebrating (?) the Ides of March a day late with an Italian Night Club sandwich from Jimmy John’s and Roman Raspberry Talenti Sorbetto.
(True facts: the Ides falls on the 15th only in March, May, July, and October. The rest of the year it’s on the 13th.)
Finished reading: Preferential Treatment by Heather Guerre 📚
Read this billionaire romance because it’s the next Fated Mates read along. It’s very well done & deflates the billionaire fantasy without taking all of the fun out of it. Definitely check the content warnings before reading.
I know there are things to do in life besides play Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, but I don’t care to do them. 🎮
Finished reading: Dreams of a Dark Warrior by Kresley Cole 📚
This one took me a little while to get into but once I was in, I couldn’t put it down.
To quote @cheribaker@writing.exchange:
Don’t wish us Happy International Women’s Day. Instead, help to vote out the ghouls who deny women’s agency and treat us like walking wombs. Ask your male friends to do the same.
That would make me a happy international woman indeed. 😎
Finished reading: Demon From the Dark by Kresley Cole 📚
I really enjoyed this one and tore through it. Give me a sad, traumatized couple of people who find a new family in each other and I’m happy. 😍
Finished reading: Pleasure of a Dark Prince by Kresley Cole 📚
I really liked, maybe even loved this one. The back half is all adventure, super cinematic.
🔖 Read The “Disney adult” industrial complex by Amelia Tait (The New Statesman via The Rec Center)
The grown-up Disney superfan has become a much-mocked phenomenon online. But creating these consumers was always part of the corporation’s plan.
I’m a second-generation Disney adult deliberately mixing other culture into my kid’s life. I appreciate this critique written by a fellow Disney adult.
Finished reading: “Untouchable” in Deep Kiss of Winter by Kresley Cole 📚
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I love this. I often feel that blogging is the most natural medium for my writing, which makes sense as I’ve been doing it for over 20 years. Maybe this incompleteness is part of why.
Finished reading: You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop by John Scalzi 📚
This was a re-read. A bit of a time capsule from the web of 2005-2007, a web I greatly miss.
🎮 Okay people of the Internet. I’m about to start Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth. See you in a couple hundred hours.
🔖 Read The Memex Method
Virtually every sentence that contains the word “brand” is [BS]…
Cory Doctorow on the value of a blog as a commonplace book.
🎮 Finished Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, and Super Mario Bros. 3. Classics all, only accessible for me due to the rewind feature in Nintendo Switch Online’s NES software. With my limited hand-eye coordination, age, and time constraints, this is the only way I was ever going to play these.
“Books always heal the hands they come through.” Leonie Dawson, 40 Days to a Finished Book (If you purchase the course through this link, I will receive a commission.)