Nervous Dream Cats; Unfamiliar Divine Awakening; Gifted Fear Outage; Nimona Unto Letters

[maribou]

Flutter, vol. 2: Don't Let Me Die Nervous, by Jennie Wood et al
Wanted this second graphic novel in the series enough to buy it, even though I'm trying not to buy things. Glad I did. It was very interesting in the way that makes me want to keep a book around. Gender stuffs, but also power stuffs.
(100, O3)

On Cats, by Doris LessingThere's a lot

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[randomdreams]

A Sisyphean pleasure, catching up on a task like that.

[maribou]

All pleasures are to some degree Sisyphean, or at least I experience them that way.

It's so much nicer to write book posts when I've just read the book, than months later, that there is some sense of completion... if I can just keep the dang boulder steady on the lesser slope at the top of the hill, life will be good!

[maribou]

Well, a lot of them are short, or kids' books, or graphic novels, or some combination of those. Also I often have different books in different rooms, so I might finish 5 books at once but have been reading them all for quite a while.

But mostly I just read very very quickly, and have done so since before I started school.

[maribou]

Oh gosh. I have a list but it's so many thousands and thousands of books long that I feel like it's kinda random sometimes. I worked in a bookstore for years, and now I work in a library, so I've never had ANY problems finding out what to read - much more trouble figuring out how to find time to read all the things I want to.

One fun, somewhat goofy tool for figuring that out is Whichbook - which gives you some mood sliders to see what sort of book you might be in the mood for. I haven't tested it a whole lot (because I never need MORE suggestions!!) but when I have played with it, the suggestions have seemed reasonably plausible.