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06/07/2026

- Another old vid I'm reposting.

But for real tho, what do you MEAN you don't know what to do? It's a book--find a weapon! The plot will work itself out from there!

06/04/2026

- My mic died halfway through recording and I didn't realize, and don't have time to re-record. Rather than let the perfect be the enemy of the good--here we go.

Jazz is already so intricately detailed and emotional in just these first two chapters, and every character presented is so deeply flawed. Where is this going? I think we know Joe and Violet will never see eye to eye again, but what *will* happen to them?

06/04/2026

Oh, this is such sad news...

"The French-Iranian author, artist and film director Marjane Satrapi, who became known worldwide through the graphic novel and film Persepolis, has died at the age of 56, people close to her told Agence France-Presse on Thursday, June 4.

"Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life," they said in a statement sent to AFP. Ripa, a Swedish producer, actor and screenwriter, died on April 8 last year.

Satrapi, an outspoken critic of Iran's theocratic government, arrived in France in 1994 and gained French nationality in 2006. Persepolis recounts the story of Satrapi's early life in Tehran, struggling under the restrictions imposed by Iran's Islamic leadership after the 1979 revolution, before she is sent to Europe by her parents and begins a life in exile."

The French-Iranian artist and film director 'died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life,' people close to her said.

06/03/2026

monthlyreads - I finished 6 books this month and have quite a few more on the trot. What did you read in May?

06/01/2026

Happy Pride Month to these two and their perpetual undead bu****it.

(New season of the series adaptation coming up this weekend!)

06/01/2026

- Here's fhe schedule for Toni Morrison's Jazz, fellow readers, and the next two books if you want to plan ahead

05/28/2026

- The way that this whole story flew into place with just a little cultural context...incredible. Also annoying.

Looking forward to the next book.

05/28/2026

Classic children's writer Mildred Pitts Walter has passed away at the age of 104.

I had an old used copy of Lillie of Watts that I adored as a kid. Here's to her wonderfully long life and career.

"Her passion for children’s literature was born when she became a teacher at a predominately African American school in Los Angeles. Disheartened that the only book in the school library featuring an African American child was Ezra Jack Keats, “The Snowy Day”, she wrote the publisher out of sheer frustration, requesting that more books feature characters who looked like the students in her classroom. The publisher wrote back, “Write them”. And that she did.

Her first book, “Lillie of Watts”, was published in 1969. Eventually, she went on to write more than 20 others, including “Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World” (1986) for which she won The Coretta Scott King Award. In 1996, she was inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame, and she received the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Honors for “Second Daughter: The Story of a Slave Girl."

The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators provides the resources, professional networking, and community-building opportunities that support writers, illustrators, and translators throughout their careers.

05/27/2026

- The things that I Who Have Never Known Men has put me through should be *studied*. I've never read such a bleak and hopeless thing in my life, and fellow readers, I was a teenager who read *Sartre*, okay?

*whew* At least I was able to make some thematic sense of it, in the end.

05/27/2026

Eastern Monroe Public Library (that's in Stroudsberg, Pennsylvania) included my review of Milk Fed in their May 2026 staff pick recommendations roundup. Thanks, librarians!

Their May list has some good titles overall, including work by S.A. Cosby, Aisha Muharrar and Katie Yee, so check it out!

🌺 April’s showers bring May‘s flowers. Staff member Maddie S. has chosen some favorite books and films to borrow and enjoy as you smell those flowers blooming. Don’t forget we also have our Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day, and Memorial Day staff picks!🌳 Read Review Read Review Read Review ...