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Finished reading: Deep by Kylie Scott 📚

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@hollie Hm. I’m trying to imagine how I would respond to this phrasing (because I have always been told this kind of information differently, like maybe the person waited to talk about it in my presence until they had come to some firm conclusions). I think I’d go with, “Okay. Thank you for telling me. Would you like to tell me more about that?” Because I want to err on the side of listening, because being bossy and offering unsolicited advice is my default and especially with something like this I would want to actively counter that impulse.

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📚💬 “Ancient history… shines a troubling spotlight onto the here and now, too, asking us to face what the judgement of the future on us will be.” Mary Beard, Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old

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Finished reading: Lead by Kylie Scott 📚

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I spent a week in London in a heatwave and I don’t recommend it. London in a heatwave is like the southeastern US in an ice storm. Everything closes, you’re unable to travel anywhere, and it’s too uncomfortable to spend much time outside. Only spring and fall European visits for me from now on.

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@hollie yay!

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New game to play on my last night in London: train passing or live percussion? The trick is to listen for cymbals. 💂🏻‍♀️

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Now that I’ve finished listening to Stephen Fry’s audiobook of Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, I’m dreaming of an adaptation of His Last Bow starring Brent Spiner and LeVar Burton. 📚🍿🖖🏻

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Finished reading: Play by Kylie Scott 📚

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Finished reading: The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 📚

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I like that in this one, Conan Doyle gets weird and gives us a sci fi story that feels like it’s referencing Murders in the Rue Morgue.

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Finished reading: Lick by Kylie Scott 📚

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Finished reading: His Last Bow by A. Conan Doyle 📚

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💬📚 “I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

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🔖📚 Read A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline by Ellen O’Connell Whittet (Literary Hub).

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…the line at a well-stocked bookstore in a prosperous coastal city is not the same thing as a reading culture, and we should be careful not to mistake one for the other.

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Finished reading: The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle 📚🎧

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Continuing the Stephen Fry Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection.

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Finished reading: Seven Days in June A Novel by Tia Williams 📚

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Gorgeous. The depiction of Eva’s migraines and the way her daughter Audre talked about being the daughter of a sick mother cracked me open. I have such gratitude to Tia Williams for writing this.

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@cygnoir ooh I should dress up as you!

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📚💬 “Sickness wasn’t sexy. And her disability was invisible—she wasn’t missing a limb or in a full-body cast. Her level of suffering seemed impossible for others to fathom. After all, everyone got headaches sometimes, like during coffee withdrawal or the flu. So she hid it.” Tia Williams, Seven Days in June

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📚💬 “What was it like, the luxury of not hurting?… she’d never stop fantasizing about being unsick.” Tia Williams, Seven Days in June

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💬📚 “As a double major in creative writing and advanced melancholia, Eva had accidentally stumbled upon this life.” Tia Williams, Seven Days in June

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So relatable.

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Finished reading: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 📚

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🔖📚 Read In Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility You Can Be “Demure and Brat All at Once” by Samantha Silva (Literary Hub)

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In the Dashwood family and in my family, it sometimes feels like the older sister feels like she has to be Sense so she can hold space for the younger sister to be Sensibility.

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@patrickrhone I know you know this, but you have a very cool kid.

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@patrickrhone Beatrix’s dress is amazing!

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💬📚 “It’s easy to take one’s own enthusiasms for granted; it’s much harder to explain them.” Mary Beard, Talking Classics

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@patrickrhone Congratulations to her and to you and Bethany!

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Keeping an eye on news about Pride displays coming down in my local library and getting ready to show up at whatever meetings I need to. I have limited physical capacity for in-person activism but I will Show Up for Libraries.

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More grief today learning of the loss of Anthony Stewart Head. I met him at a con once. It was probably the summer of 2003. He was so generous with his time, chatting with a couple of us from the official Buffy posting board until his handler shooed us because a line had formed. He hugged me before I left...

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@amit So cool!

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💬📚 “I love the days when my body cooperates.” Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

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The Wayback Machine has a robust archive of Dr. Raúl Pacheco-Vega’s website. One of my first thoughts was how important it was to preserve the writing he did about doing research. I’m glad the Internet Archive has it.

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I am devastated by the death of Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega, an incredibly generous scholar who impacted my research process for years. If, like me, you always want details in the midst of your grief, Periódico Correo has them but be warned that it involves violence.

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@stinapag.bsky.social 💗 Darin Morgan 💗 My favorite is Humbug.

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@cygnoir Bless you for your work.

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@amit What is a blog for if not to work out your own thinking? Keep the verbosity.

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@jsonbecker These people are so frustrating because they are both bigoted AND misunderstand the diversity of the ancient Mediterranean.

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@cherizilla ce certain âge

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@cherizilla Je suis une femme d’un certain âge.

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@hollie I hate when I experience these and I kind of just want to always be hermiting these days.

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@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social “Part of me has clearly never left this era, just as Boomers still have the 1960s living inside of them.” Me too.

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@hollie Well now I feel lucky that I tend to hang out in the 2-5 range.

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@brie You’re really tempting me with this to become a person who tries all the ereaders.

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@deanleetal.bsky.social I’ve liked all of them so far. The fun is catching the allusions.

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@patrickrhone I could have written a similar history.

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@patrickrhone I love this! But that’s no surprise, as I consistently love Derek’s writing.

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@adactio I love that book so much!

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@dwalbert I think if I came home to this, I would say, “Okay Ermengarde, I see you’re using the space so I will go back out and return later.”

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@manton so much smoking!

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@hollie My f-i-l recently was distraught that after a medical event, he scored average for his age on executive function when he scored above average on everything else. I told him, “Hey, I know plenty of people who do okay with limited executive function!”

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@hollie C) B but instead of mailing and apologizing, put in a specific spot, then make a note in my calendar ahead of her NEXT birthday of where I put it, 50/50 chance whether it’s still in that spot when I get the calendar reminder.

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