I just finished Arkady Martine’s novella Rose/House. Not as good as her other books but I’m really appreciating the shorter length lately.
BooksOne might say this about parenting too. Which is the biggest drag about it.
gloomI’m a voracious, curious, whimsical kind of reader. One of my favorite things is to find a writer I like and then read one of their favorite writers. I also love recommending books to people.
BooksI’m pretty sure I decided to read Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind because of how weird the title felt. Turns out, it’s a pretty accurate portrayal of working poverty and how soul crushing it is.
BooksIt’s fascinating the way she put this together from several different translations
BooksThis book is Multnomah County Library’s Everybody Reads book this year :)
BooksSome people were probably smarter and had an SMS plan that didn’t cost them every time. It was bidirectional too. If you subscribed to someone, you could get their tweets as text messages. I was too cheap for that. That’s what got me going to twitter on the web
XA message for each post. Also, I had to pay for each SMS! It was 10 cents each time. So I only wrote something when I had an idea I really liked.
XBefore that, posting to internet was a sitting at computer activity before then
XI don’t remember any. That was the thing that made it so cool. I could post to the internet from my flip phone!
XYes, I was in twitter early on. I used to send text messages to post on it. Didn’t read much on it early on. That changed when I got a smartphone a couple years later
XI’m reading this book too! I’m reading about the Goths
gloomAn app that @polluterofminds is working on. I’m kicking the tires a little :)
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Also, I know exactly what you mean about trying to explain it!