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And no, that’s not a trick question. Nor is it a failure of my dys-brain, which as disordered as it is, can actually understand that particular mathematical concept. Just don’t ask me what 7×8=. But, billions and half-billions? I understand the concept and am yet very confused about it. I’m certain there must be a big difference in the lifestyles of those who are worth one amount rather than the other, because if there wasn’t, there wouldn’t be so many billionaires who build their wealth on the backs of...
read moreI love the idea that readers fall in love with books and characters and turn around and want to create their own stories, art, etc. Fan art can be images representing the author’s creation or images the represent the artist’s ideas of what might have happened, or might happen. Today, this fan art on tumblr grabbed my eye and absolutely wouldn’t let go. I haven’t read Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire but this made me wonder what I’ve been missing! Since it’s a compilation of quotes from the book,...
read moreThis is frustratingly weird. I worked on this post yesterday and it’s gone. While I guess I must have quite the program without saving, I could swear that WordPress also does autosaves? No? And I can’t recreate everything. But here’s what I can tell you quickly. Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker Written by Patricia Hruby Powell Illustrated by Christian Robinson (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books) I wanted to read a biography of Josephine Baker. I’m on a waiting list for Josephine...
read moreBlack Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime Wow. What a wild ride. And I don’t mean roller coaster hang-onto-your-seats-bang-bang ride. I mean an “if this were a novel nobody would believe it” ride, which is such a cliché it’s gotten trite and boring, but I kinda didn’t want to say an “are you shittin’ me???” ride. Ooops. As often happens I’m recommending that you just go grab this and start reading or listening without knowing any of the spoilers that...
read moreWhat to Say Next by Julie Buxbaum My rating: 5 of 5 stars When I began reading this book and realized it was about a gifted, apparently-on-the-spectrum guy and a gifted girl without neuro-issues, I felt a bit of ‘oh, another one? are guys with Asperger’s sadly becoming the new trope that girls sigh over?’ and felt a bit disgusted and a bit bored and almost stopped listening. But it’s not. It’s not ‘just another one of those books.’ By the end I had revised every negatively cautious thought I’d...
read moreSo I had a long chatty post of my thoughts on this, and they didn’t save, and I don’t know why. ‘Tis weird. So for now, let me say this. I am really glad that the Wakanda Forever challenge in #blackathon reminded me that I had this graphic novel on my Kindle Fire* yet had never read it.** Because I have now discovered that I actually loved the experience of reading it this way, despite never having been able to get into graphic novels in the past. Also? This book is a two-fer, and fits in the My Kind of Mystery Challenge...
read moreWhat is the Celtic Coasts Reading Challenge? A group created and curated by Carolyn of RiedelFascination that covers all three Celtic countries! Whatever genre your passion might be; if your author is born or residing in Celtic country, if your literature takes place among these countries, or is connected to them strongly: this group is for you. The challenge runs from February 1, 2019 through January 31, 2020. I’ll be posting all the Celtic-related reading and research I do this year on this page to keep it all in one place. If you...
read moreWhat is the My Kind of Mystery Challenge? If you read any mystery material at all: this group of readers/reading challenge is for you. “My Kind Of Mystery” is a reading challenge for every kind of mystery. That includes autobiographies, tutorials, and other books by and about mystery authors, not just fiction. Carolyn of RiedelFascination created and curates it. She also included a list of books she’s planning to read this year that fit “her” kind of mystery. The challenge runs from February 1,...
read moreGeekerella by Ashley Poston “I suck at being social. I think one thing and my mouth says something completely different, like I’m possessed. By a whole lot of stupid.” “It’s also awkward to be so short you can see all the way up into someone’s cerebral cortex, but welcome to my life.” “We might all be different – we may ship different things or be in different fandoms – but if I learned anything from twenty-three days in a too-blue uniform playing a character I thought I could never be, it’s that...
read moreThe Poet X by Elizabeth Acemedo. What a beautiful, painful, stunning book. Yet a book where pain doesn’t always win. I was hesitant to read it at first because of it being written in blank verse. I needn’t have been. I’m embarrassed, actually, that I knew of it for so long and yet held back, and it took a readathon to get me to go ahead and give it a chance. But isn’t that why we participate in readathons? Not just to fill in ticky-boxes on a list, but to find new books, new voices, to love? Listening to it as an...
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