📚💬 “One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
🔖📚 Read Notes on Romance Novels as “Camp”.
Andrea, author of the Shelf Love newsletter, does an amazing job of arguing for romance novels as Camp.
Finished reading: The Day of the Duchess by Sarah MacLean 📚
This one made me cry. I just really love a second chance.
Finished reading: A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean 📚
Finished reading: The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean 📚
Me: What if I eat yogurt and granola for every meal today?
That thing where you’ve just spent a couple days immersed in something over which you have no control, so you very carefully align all the Nintendo games on the shelf.
Want to read: The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives by Adam Smyth 📚
📚🔖 Read The Literary Power of Hobbits: How JRR Tolkien Shaped Modern Fantasy by Verlyn Flieger (Literary Hub)
Dr. Flieger says:
- Tolkien created modern fantasy via fae-ery, the creations of secondary worlds.
- The inclusion of hobbits in Middle Earth grounds Tolkien ’s fantasy.
🔖 Read Ten Years Out of Academia by Anne Helen Petersen.
I’m 3 years out from my doctoral defense and 6 months out from holding an academic job. I told an internet friend:
Right now it feels like librarian is the identity that was always really mine and academic was borrowed.