Wrote a little blog about my disinterest in following middle-aged characters like Marilla Cuthbert and Haymitch Abernathy back to adolescence (which may or may not have anything to do with turning 38 last week.)

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If you're looking to transition your cat to indoor-only due to H1N1, great! There are many other benefits, too. But it may not go well if you just shut them in and call it a day, you need to commit to giving them an enriched indoor environment with lots of play. felineengineering.com/blog/indoor-...

Book no 8 is Lay Them To Rest by Laurah Norton. A really interesting account of writer professor and researcher Norton working with an amazing team to give unidentified decedents their identities back. It also covered some areas that true crime can sometimes forget about, such as iding trans victims

I’m not and never have been American, but for 13 minutes, Kendrick made me feel like I was. However, I am sad I didn’t get the Bing bop boom boom bop bam. That has been my vocal stim of choice since GNX came out.

Book no 7 is This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan. As engaging as the previous book in the series, and just as fun and sexy too, but with enough plot to get your teeth into. I’m not a smut-seeker, but if it’s something you like, you’d like Ryan’s work. She does it very well. Romance the way I like it!

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

“Read Handmaids Tale” “Read 1984” “They predicted everything!” NO. READ A HISTORY BOOK. History inspired the stories, not the other way round.
The bad actors want you to believe this has never happened before. But it has.

The Lakota People's Law Project's 2025 Decolonized Reading List. There is so much to choose from here.

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Watch this. And then watch it again.

No 6 and the first book of Feb, The Mourner’s Bestiary by Eiran Caffal. This book put me through it, but it also helped me feel a lot of things I’ve been repressing. Heavy on the ecological collapse, chronic illness and familial death, so check CWs. Beautifully written and very relevant.

And just to be fully transparent, I also read copious amounts of fanfic too. Star Trek Voyager, to be precise.

No 5 and probably the last book of January. They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib. Poetic, poignant, at times heart achingly beautiful writing. Hanif has an eclectic and wide ranging knowledge of music and the way it impacts and mirrors pop culture.

No 4. Guilt and Ginataan by Mia P Manansala. Another instalment in the Tita Rosie’s Kitchen series. A quick easy and comforting mystery series, which manages to show how easy it is to be inclusive of a wide range of cultures, genders and sexualities. Comforting in its familiarity.

No 3. If You Can’t Take the Heat by Geraldine DeRuiter. Insightful, cutting, witty. Had me emotional one minute and laughing the next. Really made me think about the importance of food and who we choose to enjoy it with. Made me hungry a good 90% of the time I was reading it.

No 2 for January was The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates, which I neglected picking up until I only had 3 days left on my loan and then immediately regretted because I wish I’d had more time to savour the lyrical and insightful prose. The topics covered have only become more relevant. Highly recommend.

Going to use #booksky to record my reads this year. No. 1 was The New Age of Empire by Kehinde Andrews. Insightful and chillingly prescient. A great read to understand the history that has lead to this global moment we currently find ourselves in.

How about instead of reposting the Niemoller poem for the fifty millionth time, you go out into your community and see how you can help? This can include yt women dressing up as handmaids too.

Revolutions are built on hope as much as they are built on righteous anger.