Sarah
@sosomanysarahs.bsky.social
Politics and cat pictures. Denver suburbs. She/her.
Arranging things by color can keep me happy for hours and hours.
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Arranging things by color can keep me happy for hours and hours.
They're good for that!
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
They're good for that!
It last asked me when I was trying to send a screenshot of my flight info to my mom! No, phone, I don't want to alter that in any way! That's why I took a screenshot!
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
It last asked me when I was trying to send a screenshot of my flight info to my mom! No, phone, I don't want to alter that in any way! That's why I took a screenshot!
That makes sense to me. There's a genre of book that I play when I'm doing repetitive work tasks or am just about to go to bed, and it's either something I've read before or a nonfiction title that doesn't require too much of a mental stretch for me to understand.
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
That makes sense to me. There's a genre of book that I play when I'm doing repetitive work tasks or am just about to go to bed, and it's either something I've read before or a nonfiction title that doesn't require too much of a mental stretch for me to understand.
What is with this remix shit anyway?
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
What is with this remix shit anyway?
I moved too often to get into the habit of keeping every book. For a long time, I avoided physical books entirely. I'm enjoying buying paper copies of old favorites and sometimes buying new books in physical form now that I'm more settled.
But I prune regularly if I'll never rearead it.
But I prune regularly if I'll never rearead it.
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I moved too often to get into the habit of keeping every book. For a long time, I avoided physical books entirely. I'm enjoying buying paper copies of old favorites and sometimes buying new books in physical form now that I'm more settled.
But I prune regularly if I'll never rearead it.
But I prune regularly if I'll never rearead it.
My audiobook library looks similar to my bookshelves but with more mediocre titles in those genres, because there's no need to prune audiobooks. My Kindle has the bookshelf stuff plus a bunch of romance and niche fantasy.
He doesn't have a meaningful cache of either.
He doesn't have a meaningful cache of either.
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
My audiobook library looks similar to my bookshelves but with more mediocre titles in those genres, because there's no need to prune audiobooks. My Kindle has the bookshelf stuff plus a bunch of romance and niche fantasy.
He doesn't have a meaningful cache of either.
He doesn't have a meaningful cache of either.
Mine: Queer/Feminist SFF, Escapist Fantasy, Biological Nonfiction, Historical Nonfiction, a few Old Famous Books, book club stuff that was good
His: Thoughtful SFF, many Old Famous Books, Semiobscure European Fiction, Manga, Math Textbooks, every book club book and every book received as a gift
His: Thoughtful SFF, many Old Famous Books, Semiobscure European Fiction, Manga, Math Textbooks, every book club book and every book received as a gift
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Mine: Queer/Feminist SFF, Escapist Fantasy, Biological Nonfiction, Historical Nonfiction, a few Old Famous Books, book club stuff that was good
His: Thoughtful SFF, many Old Famous Books, Semiobscure European Fiction, Manga, Math Textbooks, every book club book and every book received as a gift
His: Thoughtful SFF, many Old Famous Books, Semiobscure European Fiction, Manga, Math Textbooks, every book club book and every book received as a gift
Ah, gotcha, I see both the overlap and the places where things would not overlap!
November 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Ah, gotcha, I see both the overlap and the places where things would not overlap!
Oh, and I forgot that you never got into Pratchett as well! I'm sorry, I remember now!
He stubbornly insisted at starting at the beginning despite being warned about the first two, but when he thought the first one was funny, I knew the rest would work out too.
He stubbornly insisted at starting at the beginning despite being warned about the first two, but when he thought the first one was funny, I knew the rest would work out too.
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Oh, and I forgot that you never got into Pratchett as well! I'm sorry, I remember now!
He stubbornly insisted at starting at the beginning despite being warned about the first two, but when he thought the first one was funny, I knew the rest would work out too.
He stubbornly insisted at starting at the beginning despite being warned about the first two, but when he thought the first one was funny, I knew the rest would work out too.
Obviously not a strategy for many. But I do think that some of the most obnoxiously loud pirates might benefit from having to request their first choice at the library and then look through what was available, or wait for a sale, or think about whether they know anyone whose taste overlaps at all.
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Obviously not a strategy for many. But I do think that some of the most obnoxiously loud pirates might benefit from having to request their first choice at the library and then look through what was available, or wait for a sale, or think about whether they know anyone whose taste overlaps at all.
But we are at a point where there's a good bit of stuff in the overlap area that one or the other of us hasn't read. (I'm not sure how someone otherwise pretty connected to geek culture somehow missed Pratchett, but he's liking it now that he's encountered it.)
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
But we are at a point where there's a good bit of stuff in the overlap area that one or the other of us hasn't read. (I'm not sure how someone otherwise pretty connected to geek culture somehow missed Pratchett, but he's liking it now that he's encountered it.)
You could absolutely tell which books are mine and which books were Partner's if we combined bookshelves. I would have way more lowbrow fantasy. He would have way more classics and weird foreign stuff, but also some horrible crap because he never prunes his shelves.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
You could absolutely tell which books are mine and which books were Partner's if we combined bookshelves. I would have way more lowbrow fantasy. He would have way more classics and weird foreign stuff, but also some horrible crap because he never prunes his shelves.
I don't think we should go back to the old days. It wasn't good that child me got to buy books twice a year and even then could only pick from what B Dalton had available.
But maybe instant gratification isn't always good, and people could use a little friction in the form of a library waitlist.
But maybe instant gratification isn't always good, and people could use a little friction in the form of a library waitlist.
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I don't think we should go back to the old days. It wasn't good that child me got to buy books twice a year and even then could only pick from what B Dalton had available.
But maybe instant gratification isn't always good, and people could use a little friction in the form of a library waitlist.
But maybe instant gratification isn't always good, and people could use a little friction in the form of a library waitlist.
That's a great skit about middle age waiting to be performed.
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
That's a great skit about middle age waiting to be performed.
...and there's something to that? Not having 50 gazillion titles in front of me is okay sometimes, and it can be good to read the backs of a limited selection of things chosen by people I know and like and try out something that I wouldn't have picked out of 50 gazillion.
November 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
...and there's something to that? Not having 50 gazillion titles in front of me is okay sometimes, and it can be good to read the backs of a limited selection of things chosen by people I know and like and try out something that I wouldn't have picked out of 50 gazillion.
I've been thinking about books lately. And it's true that if you want something unusual and innovative and queer, sometimes online is the only place that's circulating.
But I've also started going to book swaps, and my Partner and I have been borrowing things from each other's shelves...
But I've also started going to book swaps, and my Partner and I have been borrowing things from each other's shelves...
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I've been thinking about books lately. And it's true that if you want something unusual and innovative and queer, sometimes online is the only place that's circulating.
But I've also started going to book swaps, and my Partner and I have been borrowing things from each other's shelves...
But I've also started going to book swaps, and my Partner and I have been borrowing things from each other's shelves...
Oof, that is unfortunate. And since they're local, it's a situation where there might have truly been better options a couple decades ago!
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Oof, that is unfortunate. And since they're local, it's a situation where there might have truly been better options a couple decades ago!
Someone a couple years ago stole exactly one carton of cat litter out of my Chewy box full of them.
I decided that the only person who might actually want that was a desperate pet owner and that I'd just consider it a donation.
I decided that the only person who might actually want that was a desperate pet owner and that I'd just consider it a donation.
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Someone a couple years ago stole exactly one carton of cat litter out of my Chewy box full of them.
I decided that the only person who might actually want that was a desperate pet owner and that I'd just consider it a donation.
I decided that the only person who might actually want that was a desperate pet owner and that I'd just consider it a donation.
That's the stuff. Was reading Survivor Type in middle school good for me? Hard to say. It certainly left an impression, though!
November 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
That's the stuff. Was reading Survivor Type in middle school good for me? Hard to say. It certainly left an impression, though!