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I've been pregnant since April and will hopefully deliver while it's still 2024. This has meant some wild hormone fluctuations; sometimes my brain is so foggy I can't concentrate, so I listen to audiobooks while playing a phone game, walking, or doing chores. Some days are crystal-clear and I am laser-focused on a physical book.… Continue reading What I Read in 2024
I rang in this year on a Sara J. Maas bender, and was just thinking that I need a new series to get lost in this winter when I started Vampire Hunter D. Maybe that'll be my next winter month obsession. In the sunshine this summer I devoured biographies of Edna St. Vincent Millay and… Continue reading What I Read in 2023
Just around the time I found my craving Angela Carter and rereading the short stories in The Bloody Chamber, and also kept encountering* and reading other short works of fiction, I was also bumping into the idea of a literary Advent calendar. The idea is simple: read one short story every day for a month.… Continue reading 28 Short Stories / “literary Advent calendar” if you insist
I've had to face myself in a few different realms of life this week, in both big and little ways: I've been chipping away at a novel-length manuscript for one year and one month, and while it's as close to complete as it's ever been ... I've still got a long way to go. I'm… Continue reading The Slump
I maintain that April-through-June is the ideal time to observe Brontë Season, where I listen to audiobooks by these weird sisters while walking the park or even better, sun-bathing sensuously. (Because they apparently hated that, and I am tormenting them from this side of the grave.) Eh, OK, I did listen to Villette indoors in… Continue reading Brontë Season