Notes
Finished reading: The Essential X-Men Volume 3 by Chris Claremont 📚
Read as single issues and only the Uncanny X-Men books, not the annuals, but this is the easiest way to track reading the comics.
That feeling when you went to the pool with children and you only had snacks for lunch and your knee hurts and you’re ready for bed at 3:30. Hashtag relatable. Am I right?
Finished reading: The Rogue of Fifth Avenue by Joanna Shupe 📚
Gilded Age New York, a hotshot lawyer, and a responsible eldest daughter who finds her responsibility chafing. What’s not to love?
Whoops, I was too busy actually paying attention to FanLIS to take notes. Also, it turns out virtual conferences are much less exhausting when you’re not liveblogging them.
I’m attending FanLIS this morning. This is my favorite little academic space: the intersection of fan studies and library & information science. I probably won’t be live-posting but I’ll take some notes to share.
Finished reading: The Essential X-Men Volume 2 by Chris Claremont 📚
Again, read as single issues in Marvel Unlimited, but this is the best way to track. It’s a powerhouse of a run with both Dark Phoenix and Days of Future Past in it.
Finished reading: Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover by Sarah MacLean 📚
This has my favorite of Sarah MacLean’s heroes. Give me a guy who is clever and made his own way over a titled rogue any day. (But I like to read about titled rogues, too.)
📚 Reading The Dark Phoenix Saga (not for the first time) and I had forgotten how heavily this whole deal, especially Scott talking to Dark Phoenix about love, influenced Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Dark Willow storyline.
🔖📚 Read Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker Made an Irreverent, Charming Kids’ Book by Stephen Bell (Harper’s Bazaar).
I’m super curious to see the book. The article only contains one sample page. It’s gorgeous and I look forward to seeing more.
🍿 Watched UHF on the big screen today, when I’d only watched it at home before. Early on I seemed to be the only person laughing but maybe people were feeling shy or something because they laughed more as the movie went on. It’s a funny movie every time.
Finished reading: Essential X-Men - Volume 1
I read these as single issues in Marvel Unlimited, but this is the easiest way to track them.
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.
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.