I LOVED Odell’s How to Do Nothing so I am super excited for Saving Time! 📕 I’ve been reading and thinking a fair bit about human time vs mechanical time in recent months and intrigued to get her take.

I changed things up for this year’s reading review, and looked at different stats. A new one was what year the books I read were published – nearly half are from the past three years. 📚

📚 My 20 favorite books I read in 2022 – including 9 SFF and romance novels, 5 graphic novels, and 6 non-fiction books.

Usually I just make a bulleted list, but this year I wrote mini blurbs for each. I’ve never come up with readalike suggestions before, it was tough! 😂

📚 Failed to consider how big and heavy this haul would be when I requested so many art books – I barely staggered out of the library! 😂

📚 Library haul! Tried to get a lot of stuff that will have pictures. Accidentally had a mini Russian theme with Soviet Seasons, Soviet Space Graphics and Putin’s Russia.

Thinking about how cool my little hometown library was. They gave me carte blanche to write graphic novel reviews for their website after college. (I did work there in HS.) My huge library system now is great but would never be game. One neat part of a town of 13k vs city of 90k.

Big library haul today because my branch is closing for a month for repairs! Goal was lighthearted reads, nothing expressly political, so I got a bunch of comics and picture books. I keep getting books that are too dense or anxiety-inducing for the evening wind-down.

Today’s library haul 📚 Hey, I got a rainbow! 🌈 Psyched for Dr. Janega’s graphic medieval history 👏

📚 Rest of my library requests came in, mostly comics and social justice. Seeing this together, probably should have gotten a few more comics and light reads 😉

📚 Today’s library haul is a bit random. Reading a lot of heavy stuff so tried to balance that with some lighthearted reads. Some comics on the way too but I was out running errands anyway 🤷‍♀️

Reading The Wake Up 📚

30% in and liking it a lot - but feel white supremacy is an incomplete explanation. As a non-religious person, I’d say it’s not just a white supremacist culture we live in, but a white Christian supremacist culture.

Skimming through this beautiful book as a design object this morning 😍 “WA: the essence of Japanese design” I’m a sucker for red anyway but the spot gloss on the cover is *chef’s kiss*📚

I may have gotten a little excited with the library requests 😅 But most are art books and comics so they’re quicker reads 😉 Apropos that the book on top is called “So many books: reading and publishing in an age of abundance” 📚

📚 Started reading Acquired Tastes: Stories about the Origins of Modern Food

I doubt I’ll make it all the way through before it’s due back but it’s interesting so far! Also depressing as it’s largely a story of colonialism 😔

Finished reading Odd Apples, a photography book by William Mullan. 🍏🍎 Very much enjoyed! Heirloom fruit is interesting in appearance and variety. 📚

Currently reading Pastoral Song by James Rebanks 📚

Really enjoyed The Shepherd’s Life so I’m looking forward to this! Going to try to take my time with it. Seems made for dipping in and out, with lots of section breaks.

Starting Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook by Christopher Noxon 📚 I really like this handwritten / illustrated style for nonfiction.

Feeling low about current events so hoping this will help my mindset🤞

📚 Really excited to read Out of Office! Before the pandemic I hated working from home but I’m fully a convert now. Hoping to find some arguments to convince my director to only make me go in once a week instead of twice a week when I have to go back. 🤞

Two fun new inspiration books in the mail this week! 📦📚

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig (pretty cover!)

tat* by Andy Altmann (chunky boi, lots to look at!)

Been on the library wait list for this beast for months! Weighs like ten pounds. Not sure how to physically read this thing 😂

The Food Lab by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt 📚

More comics and books on paper to help me follow through on getting off screens at 10pm 📚

Today’s library haul! Four comics, a cookbook and a photography art book 🥰📚

Second library comics haul post-vax! A couple I’ve been looking forward to (They Called Us Enemy and A Bride’s Story) and a few random ones that sounded interesting (Money Shot, House of Women and Chasing the Bird) or I’ve heard good things about (Ice Cream Man). 📚

First library haul in a year! Been waiting till I was vaxxed. So excited for comics 📚 I prefer them on paper.

Started reading Discovering Dahlias by Erin Benzakein 📚 I pre-ordered and they included dahlia seeds! Totally gorgeous flower photography. Maybe I’ll give dahlias another shot, last time I tried deer ate them 🤷‍♀️