the side effect of gluten is murder
1. I asked a work colleague to be friends with me like a complete dork (seriously it was like I transformed back into my junior high self), and she said yes! So we've gone to lunch once and will go again next week. I'm so happy. It has been a long, long, long time since I have made a new RL friend. :)
2. I think the indigo bunting now lives in our yard! We've seen it basically every day since I reported its existence. The yard is mad with lady cardinals and gentlemen cardinals, and they are fat and aggressive. LOL I saw two red-headed woodpeckers scaling adjacent trees today while watching dishes. It was glorious.
3. I got a postcard from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
minoanmiss with "Quiet Girl" by Langston Hughes and one of her original drawings on it. *beams*
4. My BFF got me a vaccinated sticker after I expressed dismay that I had not been offered one either time I got vaccinated. It is now adorning my journal. <3
5. The last time I renewed my driver's license was 2013. Y'all, I just did that shit in ten minutes on the internet. I am never setting foot in a DMV ever again. The future is all Gene Roddenberry said it would be. LOL
6. I cannot recommend Fortune Feimster's Netflix comedy special "Sweet and Salty" enough. It is hilarious. I absolutely love that there's not a mean spirited moment in the whole thing. It is mostly about being gay and Southern and clueless. Emma felt seen. (She does mention weight loss at the very end, but she doesn't talk about it in terms of looks or standards of beauty.)
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L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated Female Byron by Lucasta Miller
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is fantastic. Miller makes a really convincing case that LEL gets left out of the literary canon and scorned by early 2oth-century writers because the incestuous literary circle of her day went to such pains to conceal her scandalous life that after her death her poems were not read in the context in which they were written. Instead of realizing the irony and the doublespeak, Woolf and others read her poems straight as treacly love lyrics according to Miller.
One of the things this book has me thinking about is the joy and frustration of studying the nineteenth century. So much is lost, unknowable, permanently ambiguous, and that's maddening. But it's also exhilarating. In these lacunae dwells the fun of interpretation and interpolation and inference. I wonder sometimes if scholars in the future will experience the same passion for studying the lives of 21st century people where all is digitally recorded and easily available and nothing left to mystery.
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Bursts of Fire by Susan Forest
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This has an interesting premise re: magic. The consciousness of those who can perform it fluctuates in time after each use of magic; this means characters can see glimpses of their futures and deliver info to their past selves.
It ends on a big cliff-hanger, so hopefully the next one will come out soon.
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2. I think the indigo bunting now lives in our yard! We've seen it basically every day since I reported its existence. The yard is mad with lady cardinals and gentlemen cardinals, and they are fat and aggressive. LOL I saw two red-headed woodpeckers scaling adjacent trees today while watching dishes. It was glorious.
3. I got a postcard from
minoanmiss with "Quiet Girl" by Langston Hughes and one of her original drawings on it. *beams*4. My BFF got me a vaccinated sticker after I expressed dismay that I had not been offered one either time I got vaccinated. It is now adorning my journal. <3
5. The last time I renewed my driver's license was 2013. Y'all, I just did that shit in ten minutes on the internet. I am never setting foot in a DMV ever again. The future is all Gene Roddenberry said it would be. LOL
6. I cannot recommend Fortune Feimster's Netflix comedy special "Sweet and Salty" enough. It is hilarious. I absolutely love that there's not a mean spirited moment in the whole thing. It is mostly about being gay and Southern and clueless. Emma felt seen. (She does mention weight loss at the very end, but she doesn't talk about it in terms of looks or standards of beauty.)
7.
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated Female Byron by Lucasta MillerMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is fantastic. Miller makes a really convincing case that LEL gets left out of the literary canon and scorned by early 2oth-century writers because the incestuous literary circle of her day went to such pains to conceal her scandalous life that after her death her poems were not read in the context in which they were written. Instead of realizing the irony and the doublespeak, Woolf and others read her poems straight as treacly love lyrics according to Miller.
One of the things this book has me thinking about is the joy and frustration of studying the nineteenth century. So much is lost, unknowable, permanently ambiguous, and that's maddening. But it's also exhilarating. In these lacunae dwells the fun of interpretation and interpolation and inference. I wonder sometimes if scholars in the future will experience the same passion for studying the lives of 21st century people where all is digitally recorded and easily available and nothing left to mystery.
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Bursts of Fire by Susan ForestMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This has an interesting premise re: magic. The consciousness of those who can perform it fluctuates in time after each use of magic; this means characters can see glimpses of their futures and deliver info to their past selves.
It ends on a big cliff-hanger, so hopefully the next one will come out soon.
View all my reviews