Friends, did you know that you do not have to scavenge bookstore clearance tables to read affordably as well as ravenously? You do not have to wait for coveted books to go on sale, or pounce on ARCs before they are published? Did you know you could check out all the new fiction you please… Continue reading Reading Roundup: June 2019
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Fat ballerina
If you've been within ten feet of Twitter recently, you might have heard that Nike has set up a fat mannequin somewhere and the Telegraph published a viciously fatphobic op-ed in reaction to it. I don't want to talk about Nike; representation is great, but global brands are not your friends and don't need your… Continue reading Fat ballerina
Reading Roundup: May 2019
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker. A friend recommended this book in my International Women's Day thread on books by women I read and loved. I remembered enjoying The Age of Miracles, so I put it right on my list. I warmed up to it slowly. It opens in the most insular of insular communities:… Continue reading Reading Roundup: May 2019
Three scenes about grief
I went with friends to see the new Avengers movie, an action film that spends much of its screentime showing how its superheroes deal with grief and survivor guilt in the wake of a cataclysmic event they could not prevent. Afterward, we ate fried chicken and enumerated all the plot holes we could think of.… Continue reading Three scenes about grief
Reading Roundup: April 2019
The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi. Do you know, I've been sporadically reading John Scalzi's blog Whatever for upwards of ten years, and I've never read any one of his books. I have to admit that I assumed they'd be a little more rocketships-and-spacewars than I typically look for in science fiction. But the first… Continue reading Reading Roundup: April 2019
The Zulu Coconut
It is with a mixture of regret and relief that I must announce the departure of my Zulu coconut from this earthly plane (or at least from storage in my home). The bell tolls for us all, and this coconut has surely traveled the earth longer and farther than most coconuts do: from wherever it… Continue reading The Zulu Coconut
Sara Davis 