3.5 stars to this weekend's book 'Cahokia Jazz' by Francis Spufford, which is just a much more clumsily written version of Michael Chabon's 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union'

you can get the organic stuff at whole foods for like 11$ a pound but the whole point is that it's supposed to be cheap and filling lol

my nonna always cooked it for us on sunday but she always said you just can't get authentic poop outside of italy

always annoying when you read a book that's just stealing the idea of another, better book, but the better book is so inherently good that the less well-executed copy is still pretty good

they let me on the plane before the pilots 🤩

never read any ann patchett but tom lake's still circulating like crazy even a year after release. got to be something good there

recommended Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix concept (what if an ikea was haunted) seemed like a lame r/writingprompts post to me it's actually a really fun horror comedy that works really well if you let it cook

yes this too. i have a coworker who only does literary fiction and when i gave him one of my favorite sf/f books to read he didn't like it because he thought it was too 'ephemeral'

when trump had the election fraud hotline thing after the election i called probably 100 times but 4 or 5 times i called and put on this old country boy accent and did this long preamble about how i went to the polling place that ended with me telling them i saw a dog standing up like a man voting

the trick to broadening your media horizons is reading every book that is ever recommended to you regardless of how unappealing/out of your comfort zone it is. some times the 68 year old white women at the library throw out heaters!