C’mon, Karl, help a bro out.

No top reads of February, alas. But: I’m spending my spring break listening to Chappell Roan, wearing red lipsticks and reading about geology, shoals, alchemy, settlers, blackness and Scotland and finally, finally banging out this article in a form (relatively) suitable for editorial/peer review.

I will never get tired of students responding to the ending of Andrea Levy’s Small Island 🤣❤️

Newest books from Vroman’s ❤️ I borrow books through my public libraries, see which ones I can’t stop thinking about and then buy them when I can.

Two of these were in my top ten fiction reads last year; one of these got five 🌟from me this year.

Reading can be, at its best, such a gift, a balm.

Here are my top five books read of January 2025 ✌🏼

My friends and I are in a Capital bookclub and this meme is 100% accurate.

(FWIW, I would never begrudge a Taurus their need to discuss fabrics.)

I mean — not much has changed.