Laina

Do I have that? Book Challenge Part of me really wants to do an autumnal book tag to celebrate the beginning of the Ber months, but it feels a little early for that. So, for funsies, I thought we could do a book challenge that I saw on Alli the Book Giraffe. This challenge was originally created…

Somewhat related to the snow, I want a new pair of winter boots. I HAVE winter boot money. Somehow. Can I find winter boots to buy? Nope.

It's snowing. Like a lot. Yaaaay.

Things I’ve Read Recently (214): My Last Summer book Jeez, another of these? Well, I'm reading a lot right now, and that is great. Let's blog about it. If you're new around here, Things I've Read Recently is a series of posts I do that are basically mini-reviews of books that I either forgot to…

This is horrifically sad. Also isn't she the one who said she wanted to make tumblr the new PDF or something?

IS THE OLD MAGIC DYING???? www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vos...

I finished Nona the Ninth recently and what do you mean I'm going to have to work on craft projects without a Locked Tomb audiobook?

My mom had an age/disability related complaint. It's something she's been dealing for a few years but she hasn't really asked me for help with it until now. For 13 dollars, I've ordered something that should solve it. It'll get here Thursday.

The Halloween Cover Book Tag I saw this tag on Kappa Reads, and it seemed really fun. The Halloween Book Covers Tag was originally created by Metaphors and Moonlight. The aim is to match covers to the topics for a bit of spooky fun! I personally want to try doing it with books I've read. 1.…

YOU NEED MORE POTATOES THIS WEATHER — Claude Atkinson (for the British Potato Marketing Board), 1930s

Happy Thanksgiving read my blog please and thank you

Things I’ve Read Recently (213): What a wild book If you're new around here, Things I've Read Recently is a series of posts I do that are basically mini-reviews of books that I either forgot to review, didn't have enough to say for a full review, or just didn't want to do a full post about for…

When our air conditioning was on the fritz, I bought a 3 pack of room thermometers online and like we got a new furnace so it works fine, but I still have those in the house and they are extremely useful. It's just really nice knowing what temp the room you're in is.

Thread worth reading if only b/c of how much of it, by volume, is people saying “the way GLP-1 meds are marketed/talked about is undoing decades of what was already achingly incremental progress on fighting cultural fatphobia and thin people are being more fucked up about fatness than ever”

Childhood is seeing Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask and thinking the titular mask is the scariest thing you’ve ever seen. Adulthood is realizing that the bust of Carly Beth’s head is actually much creepier.

Literary agents are also concerned that publishers might paste manuscripts into LLMs to generate rejection letters and publicity descriptions. Some are now adding protections to prevent that. More on the AI turmoil at some of the Big 5 publishing houses here: www.wired.com/story/book-p...

Made myself a liar in the first sentence.

Book Haul 2026 Q3 There should not be any book buying in this post. ...maybe a little book buying. Bought: My Life in the Fish Tank by Barbara Dee Release date: September 15th, 2020 Summary (from goodreads): When twelve-year-old Zinnia Manning’s older brother Gabriel is diagnosed with a mental…

Also one of my favourite phrases that I spread amongst the library kids today - a "forever book". As opposed to library books you have to give back, those are books you get to keep. Donations, discards, etc.

Happy 83rd, Mr. Stine

Perfect for the season!

October Minis: Don’t Fear the Reaper This is a totally different thing than I do in Things I've Recently because, uh, I say so. And because it's October. Editing Laina: Because it's only one book! That's why it's different. And that was on purpose. Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones…

The Lorax. I watched a lot of scary stuff as a kid and was largely unaffected by it, tbh, but the Lorax deeply unnerved me.

To everyone who has asked me if The Dog Knight getting banned is actually a good thing, Keezy has summed up my feelings very succinctly here.

Today’s thrifted find. [“scary stories to tell in the dark”_1981 📕😱]

Okay, it's not exactly NICE, but old people who complain about other old people are kinda hilarious. My old bus driver who retired was an older lady and sometimes she'll fill in when the new ones are busy and she absolutely HATES some of the old women who ride the bus XD

I'm wearing a little skeleton hand claw clip today and a shirt that says "Whatever Spices Your Pumpkin" and I have been complimented on both. Very pleased.

that clothing was put together by an underpaid worker in a factory overseas under the cheapest circumstances possible. not assembled by a magic factory, but a human quietly exploited and erased an appropriate metaphor, then. AI was trained on the blood of real artists and profits from their absence

Funny she says that considering there are no machine-made clothes! Sewing is not an automated craft. Every single garment you've ever put on your body, if there's a seam in it, was made by human hands.

I just cooked perogies and potstickers one after the other and... like that's an almost identical cooking process, which is so funny to me. Every culture wraps stuff in dough and it's amazing.

JCO is the only one who gets a free pass to stay on twitter because it's better for us, emotionally, if she's not here, but also it's worse for them, emotionally, if she's over there

Something that has shaken me is that all clothes are hand made. Factory produced clothes employ techniques to sew at scale but human hands pushed every garment individually through a machine. The same way i do when i make clothes. The difference for writing is i'm not reading or writing to a formula

Literary fiction survives because romance supports the less lucrative genres. It’s that simple. Rachel Reid’s books support JCO books.

"Machine made" clothing is made by human beings. There are not autonomous clothing machines that make your clothes. All clothing is made by people.

Gone are the days when all Joyce posted were fugly foot pics.

Things I’ve Read Recently (212): Graphic novels If you're new around here, Things I've Read Recently is a series of posts I do that are basically mini-reviews of books that I either forgot to review, didn't have enough to say for a full review, or just didn't want to do a full post about for…