I've been thinking about moving to a new apartment at the end of the summer, and I dread packing up my books. There is probably not a greater volume of books now than the last time I moved five years ago, when I had recently weeded out the books required by my qualifying exams but… Continue reading Reading Roundup: May/June 2018
Author: Sara Davis
I don’t know what to title this
[Content warning: suicide] I have had a blog post draft that I have been avoiding since last fall. I remember opening and closing it a few times back then, trying to put into words how I felt after losing a friend in mid-October. It is not the first or only time in recent memory that… Continue reading I don’t know what to title this
Reading Roundup: March/April 2018
In March, my gentleman showed me a photo that his friend posted to Instagram: a pile of Elena Ferrante books, with the comment "In a committed relationship." Suddenly, something clicked. This must be the same reason I found myself unable to get into any new books in March. I had a stack of books in my to-read… Continue reading Reading Roundup: March/April 2018
Gaming roundup: Is it spring or what?
Winter is hard. That's my explanation for my recent obsession with mobile games. Usually, mobile games are out of the question for me--my smartphone, now almost two years old, was a freebie and barely has enough memory for the apps I use for my job. Nonetheless, for about six months I squeezed in Heroes of Dragon Age,… Continue reading Gaming roundup: Is it spring or what?
Reading Roundup: January/February 2018
The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor. The final novella in the Okorafor's Binti series (mentioned previously here and here). I was very excited to find out what happened to Binti and her jellyfishlike classmate Okwu, and I would have been thrilled even if the novella didn't take some very unexpected and extraordinary turns. This series… Continue reading Reading Roundup: January/February 2018
Year of Gaming, winter report
For anyone who has been following the progress of Purple DadShep--my final playthrough of the entire Mass Effect trilogy accompanied by my friend and neighbor--we have responded to the events of Tuchanka and the Citadel by becoming staunchly Paragon (unless mercs and jerks are really getting on our nerves); those are two quests that really… Continue reading Year of Gaming, winter report
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