I fell for this utterly because what even is satire anymore.

He’s not old enough for it yet, but once he’s 5 or so definitely start him on the Junie B. Jones series (Junie is in K when the series starts). My neurospicy kid and I are pretty sure Junie is spicy also, but above all she’s freaking hilarious.

Go AU!

I bet he really hates Philly then, we’re full of Italian flags over here.

Can I get in line now to not read any of it?

Same, I would have been all over a new Andy Weir.

The last 5 on the list are real, but the rest are not. Regardless, as a freelancer myself, I would have loved this assignment and written it myself. "I didn't know it would appear in the Chicago Sun-Times" is a pretty poor excuse.

The last 5 books appear to be real ("Dandelion Wine" is of course a Bradbury novel), but the rest are an acid trip.

Ew, I don't like it without the hyphen. I always read it wrong as "core searcher."

(As a corollary, I read "coworker" as "cow orker.")

I got into TJ Klune thanks to a friend who went to that panel at ECCC and now I'm devouring every book by Klune. So rare to have a book make me laugh and weep in the same chapter.

It's been a few years since I lived in the Beltway media market, but defense contractor ads on news/traffic/weather radio station WTOP used to mention the "warfighter" all the time. As an editor, I noticed and wondered also.

My kid also gets Social Security survivor benefits from my late husband, who worked in IT and paid into SS from his teen years. The payment makes up for his lost income in helping us stay in our house and keep a roof over my kid's head. Jeanine is willfully malicious here.

We need MSM to start covering this, including the numbers on the YT feeds. What @booker.senate.gov is doing, along with other senators, is so important.