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

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'

i got stunted and weird after 5 years of exclusively reading sf/f until i read Wolf Hall this summer and realized books don't need wizards or aliens in them to be good

we call ours a 'digital access lab' which is much more pretentious and annoying

grizzled space marine sergeant saying this to a group of cadets before starting the holographic training program