Books, Taylor Swift, and other hyperfixations
IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN. Today's Top Ten Tuesday features my top ten auto-buy authors. Is this a rehash of my Lady Writer Supergroup? POSSIBLY. Maggie Stiefvater OB-VI-OUS-LY. Stiefvater gave me murder horses in The Scorpio Races. She gave me Ronan Lynch in The Raven Cycle. She gave me miracles in All the Crooked Saints. I will go… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Auto-buy authors
Due to my personal political frustrations, I sometimes fantasize about setting the current political system on fire. Luckily, I won't have to; the Democratic party is doing that for me. With more than 20 candidates in a party that can't agree on its priorities, I don't have much hope for the 2020 election. How do… Continue reading 2019 Democratic Debate Book Tag
I brought back the Musical Shuffle Book Tag...again! I tried to go TOO high-concept at first - 50 songs for 50 years of Pride! - but I scrapped that idea pretty quick. For this round, I paired songs from my 2019 Pride Playlist (available here) with queer books. Most of these are YA and I… Continue reading PRIDE MONTH Musical Shuffle Book Tag
Happy Pride Month!! I waited a full year to do this tag after seeing it on May's blog. I'd hoped to have read thousands more LGBTQIA+ books by now. Oh well. I have plenty waiting in the wings. May added black/brown to this tag last year for inclusivity. I added some additional colors this year.… Continue reading 🏳️🌈 Pride Flag Book Tag 🏳️🌈
My mom and I headed down to Portland for May the 4th. Miraculously, EVERYTHING was on sale. I found an entire collection of bargain social science books in the Red Room. I also abandoned some of my most-anticipated reads for newer, less familiar books. Oh, and I forgot to buy The Handmaid's Tale, despite walking past… Continue reading Powell’s Haul: What did I just buy?
This is the final part of my Methodist Despair playlist. Today I pull out Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson and Lily Allen. I earned that "explicit" tag. Be warned. "I'm Not That Guy" from Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson When you have no one to show you what to do How do you find your way? When your country doesn't… Continue reading Methodist Despair Playlist: Part 3 (explicit)
I'm back with more sad songs. For context, I am forgoing food this morning, filling my stomach instead with boiling hot caramel tea - doctor's orders. Let that guide your reading experience. "Make Them Hear You" from Ragtime Go out and tell our story Let it echo far and wide Make them hear you Make them… Continue reading Methodist Despair Playlist: Part 2 (explicit)
After the UMC vote in February, I turned to a classic coping mechanism. That's right: I made a Spotify playlist. You can listen to it, if you want. I titled it Methodist Despair. My feelings about the vote were complex and sometimes explicit. I didn't know what else to do, so I turned to music… Continue reading Methodist Despair Playlist: Part 1 (explicit)
Last month, Methodists voted against LGBTQIA+ inclusion. As a result, Conservative Methodists - including the Wesleyan Congregational Assembly and delegates from Africa - took control of roughly 77% of the English alphabet. In response, affirming denominations claimed custody of the letters L, G, B, T, Q, I, and A. Conservative Methodists struggle to make use… Continue reading Aftermath of the Methodist vote
Narrative Paradise 