Take it from someone who has been paid to work on all kinds of books that were 100% not my cup of tea, life is too short to read books you don’t like. My old career was audiobook production, now I’m a librarian who spends lots of time reassuring my book club members I’m not mad they dnf’d that month

This varies, there are usually volume discounts at stores that libraries don’t have. One system near me offer 20 pages free every day, two others are 15 cents for black and white, 50 cents color. Libraries are much better for anything you need time on a computer to work on, no charge for that

Me (from national aquarium last weekend)

Jay Stephens

Oooh, I checked out Beneath the trees to use up my February Hoopla borrows, jumping it up my list this week. I wondered if it would harsh like Dwellings, sounds like a yes.

Certainly looks magical. My apartment in Hollywood had passion flowers trailing up the fence, it was one of the most delicate and unusual flowers I’d ever seen before, like they were inside out.

An article I read about what happened when India banned Twitter said it was the smaller community connecting content like that which had a hard time flourishing on any on other platforms.