Finished reading: The Prince of Broadway by Joanna Shupe 📚
I loved it. A delightful heroine, a debutante with dreams of owning a women-only casino. The bitter casino owner she’s chosen to mentor her. Excellent stuff.
Midnight is very sleepy.
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.