Time to crowdsource a tagline! I’m going to start calling myself a Consulting Scholar-Librarian, with the tagline “Like Sherlock Holmes with ____.” But I’m still working out what goes in the blank. “More databases” isn’t specific enough. “An ORCiD” is too specific. Thoughts?

More dark academia books!

• The Lessons, Naomi Alderman
• The Rachel Papers, Martin Amis
• Possession, A. S. Byatt
• The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Magus, John Fowles
• The Lake of Dead Languages, Carol Goodman
• The Magicians, Lev Grossman
• Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
• Dead Poets Society, N. H. Kleinbaum
• A Separate Peace, John Knowles
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart
• The Year of the Gadfly, Jennifer Miller
• The Wild Girls, Pat Murphy
• A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl
• Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling
• Memoirs of a Woman Doctor, Nawal El Saadawi
• Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers
• Vicious, V. E. Schwab
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
• Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
• The Truants, Kate Weinberg

Me to W: You know how you sometimes for fun you give people advice on research design in a Fan Studies Discord server?
W: I have not had that experience, but go on.

Want to read: Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas 📚

Want to read: Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth 📚

I bought myself a Theracane and it’s not arriving until Thursday. I’m really looking forward to having it and also sad that I might still have this right shoulder/deltoid trigger point pain until then.

Currently reading: The Iliad by Homer; Caroline Alexander (translator) 📚

🗯️ Read Lore Olympus episodes 1 - 10.

Gorgeous art, fun characterization, planning to keep going.

🎮 Currently playing Hades on Nintendo Switch.

Been coveting this for a while, so when W. suggested getting it today, I squeed. Love the art & vibe so far. Button mashing & playing in God Mode.

I’m still obsessed with Dark Academia. Here are some books I’ve read or will read that have dark academia vibes.

Currently Reading

• The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova

Want to Read

• If We Were Villains, M. L. Rio
• Bunny, Mona Awad
• Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo
• The Raven Cycle, Maggie Stiefvater
• The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt

Finished Reading

• The Secret History, Donna Tartt
• Legendborn, Tracy Deonn