Or What You Will | 
#ManicMonday time!
Book: Or What You Will by Jo Walton (honourable mention: One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston)
Author: Ruth Ozeki
Show: Old Enough (have y‘all seen this? It‘s a super cute Japanese reality show. There‘s a selection of episodes on Netflix.)
Band: The Offspring
Song: I‘ve had 20-year love affairs with both Otherside (RHCP) and Over the Hills and Far Away (Nightwish). I can‘t choose between them.
I went to see Ada Palmer and Jo Walton talk yesterday and it was so interesting, they both love history and writing and are real time friends.
If you get a chance to see they talk, don't miss it.
Now I need to listen to their podcast too ;)
If a change is coming, it may be good for those who have been suffering with things the way they are, and bad for those who have prospered.
Stats time! I read a ton in February because a bunch of the comics on my holds list made it through processing. Whee!
I had a high-quality month, too. I only found one 5-star read (tagged) and two 4.5ers (THE LONELY HEARTS HOTEL and BUTTER HONEY PIG BREAD), but I regular-strength loved an awful lot of what I read. It felt pretty durned good to take my yearly month off from Americans, too.
pickThis book, y‘all.
I mean, damn.
It‘s about death and creation and how we interact with stories. It‘s a novel within a novel, except for how it isn‘t. I want to dissect every little piece of it in a 6000-word review, but I also want to keep my response safe in my own skull, because this feels at once expansive and personal. I hardly know what to do with it.
It‘s a 5-star read, is what I‘m saying.
I started OR WHAT YOU WILL over breakfast, and it feels like a book I could love. I sure hope it pans out. My last two maybe-promising reads went downhill, but Walton usually trends upwards.
panThere is an audience out there for this book, but I am not part of it. The writing is good, but the approach is awkward & confusing. It nearly put me in a reading slump. It is a dense read requiring a slow, pensive read. It is very stream of consciousness & highly meta. For those who love Shakespeare & can handle the wandering approach this will be an enjoyable read. Walton does have talent in her writing & her prose is quite lyrically beautiful.
Just recently Roxas decided that I am not allowed to read out on my balcony without him! 😻 I never used to let him out here because he's such a spaz and I was afraid he would jump off the edge! 😹 But he doesn't go near the edge at all, in fact, all he seems interested in doing out here is sharing my chair with me while reading! So I guess now I have a balcony book buddy! 🤗📚💕 #catsoflitsy #littenkitten #roxas
"Terrible things are happening, and some of them in our names. Do what you can. Every little bit helps. Speak up for the voiceless, protect the powerless, open up choices for the choiceless."
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So I don't know if other people have experienced this or if it's just me...but I feel like the pandemic has made my social anxiety way worse. 😞 I went to a coworkers house today for a staff pool party and I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown the whole time! 😣 It feels harder to be around other people now somehow? In any case, thank goodness I had a book with me! Technically two books, as I had one also hidden in my bag! 😂🤣💕📚🙈
After a thunderstorm last night the weather finally cooled down enough to make it enjoyable to read outside again! 😀 This is my favorite reading spot at the park! 💕📚🌿
Look what arrived today! I love Jo Walton and this one looks like it could be her best book yet! A story about writing, books, authors, and their relationships with characters-what's not to love? 😍📚💕 #bookmail
This is a dangerous list...I want them all🙄
17 Summer Must-Reads For Fantasy Lovers
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/margaretkingsbury/best-new-summer-fantasy-b...
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