Susanna Fraser Stone
@susannafraser.bsky.social
Author, reader, birdwatcher hoping to be befriended by crows, Auburn fan. Southern by birth, Pacific NW by choice despite ongoing homesickness for good BBQ. She/her.
Though on first reading I thought A Daughter of Zion was the most swooningly romantic thing ever! Rachel was so beautiful and tragic, and her guy, I think his name was Moshe, was such a hot freedom fighter!
October 26, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Though on first reading I thought A Daughter of Zion was the most swooningly romantic thing ever! Rachel was so beautiful and tragic, and her guy, I think his name was Moshe, was such a hot freedom fighter!
Also spotted but not bought, more of my early 20s leisure reading, the Zion Chronicles and Zion Covenant series, which in retrospect were appalling in every way you think (evangelical) Christian fiction about the founding of the State of Israel could be. (And some random Western by the same authors)
October 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Also spotted but not bought, more of my early 20s leisure reading, the Zion Chronicles and Zion Covenant series, which in retrospect were appalling in every way you think (evangelical) Christian fiction about the founding of the State of Israel could be. (And some random Western by the same authors)
Spotted but not bought: Some of the first fantasy I read after the Narnia books. I have a feeling these wouldn’t hold up for me as well as CS Lewis, but I sure loved them when I read them on college summers.
October 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Spotted but not bought: Some of the first fantasy I read after the Narnia books. I have a feeling these wouldn’t hold up for me as well as CS Lewis, but I sure loved them when I read them on college summers.
I’ve spent the past several days on the Olympic Peninsula as a sort of quiet getaway using the vacation time I’d already had approved for this year’s unfortunately canceled Surrey International Writers Conference. Among other things, I hit up some used bookstores. My purchases:
October 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I’ve spent the past several days on the Olympic Peninsula as a sort of quiet getaway using the vacation time I’d already had approved for this year’s unfortunately canceled Surrey International Writers Conference. Among other things, I hit up some used bookstores. My purchases:
I completed my #BookBingoNW2025 blackout with a day to spare with The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope for the Monsters square.
September 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I completed my #BookBingoNW2025 blackout with a day to spare with The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope for the Monsters square.
No new pictures, where are you mentally?
August 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
No new pictures, where are you mentally?
For the #BookBingoNW2025 Intergenerational Friendship category, I read Installment Immortality by Seanan McGuire.
August 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
For the #BookBingoNW2025 Intergenerational Friendship category, I read Installment Immortality by Seanan McGuire.
For the #BookBingoNW2025 Gender Bender category, I read The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang, which is a genderbent reimagining of a 14th-century Chinese novel.
August 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
For the #BookBingoNW2025 Gender Bender category, I read The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang, which is a genderbent reimagining of a 14th-century Chinese novel.
Entering the #BookBingoNW2025 homestretch, I read The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz for the Censorship category.
July 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Entering the #BookBingoNW2025 homestretch, I read The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz for the Censorship category.
For the One Big Book category of #BookBingoNW2025 I chose Fall of Civilizations by Paul Cooper, as it’s the first 500+ pager I’ve read this summer.
July 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
For the One Big Book category of #BookBingoNW2025 I chose Fall of Civilizations by Paul Cooper, as it’s the first 500+ pager I’ve read this summer.
I think I was supposed to read something uplifting in a philosophical, theological, spiritual, historical, and/or political way for the #BookBingoNW2025 Hope category, but I decided the weird, whimsical bird comics in Ew, It’s Beautiful by Joshua Barkman actually made me FEEL calm and hopeful.
July 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I think I was supposed to read something uplifting in a philosophical, theological, spiritual, historical, and/or political way for the #BookBingoNW2025 Hope category, but I decided the weird, whimsical bird comics in Ew, It’s Beautiful by Joshua Barkman actually made me FEEL calm and hopeful.
For the #BookBingoNW2025 Dystopia square, I read Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich, which for sure fits the category. Based on my previous experience with Erdrich’s work I was hoping for at least a smidge of optimism in the ending, but NSM.
July 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM
For the #BookBingoNW2025 Dystopia square, I read Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich, which for sure fits the category. Based on my previous experience with Erdrich’s work I was hoping for at least a smidge of optimism in the ending, but NSM.
For the #BookBingoNW2025 New-to-You Format category, I went with The Cultured Bumpkin’s audiobook version of Sense & Sensibility. I’m not an audiobook person AT ALL, but this familiar book read in the accent of my childhood charmed me.
July 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
For the #BookBingoNW2025 New-to-You Format category, I went with The Cultured Bumpkin’s audiobook version of Sense & Sensibility. I’m not an audiobook person AT ALL, but this familiar book read in the accent of my childhood charmed me.
Next in my #BookBingoNW reading, Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor for the BIPOC Historical Fiction/Nonfiction category. It’s hardly news to me that colonialism was and is wrong, but this really brought home the scope of the harm done to India in the centuries of British rule.
July 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Next in my #BookBingoNW reading, Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor for the BIPOC Historical Fiction/Nonfiction category. It’s hardly news to me that colonialism was and is wrong, but this really brought home the scope of the harm done to India in the centuries of British rule.
#BookBingoNW reading continues with The Adventure of the Demonic Ox by Lois McMaster Bujold in the Great Escapes category, because what’s more escapist than a book you drop everything to read as soon as it’s released?
July 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM
#BookBingoNW reading continues with The Adventure of the Demonic Ox by Lois McMaster Bujold in the Great Escapes category, because what’s more escapist than a book you drop everything to read as soon as it’s released?
I made a cobbler!
July 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I made a cobbler!
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel)
June 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel)
I decided it counts for the Buddy Read square in #BookBingoNW2025 if I’m friends with the author, so I read Murder by Memory by @oliviawaite.com
June 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I decided it counts for the Buddy Read square in #BookBingoNW2025 if I’m friends with the author, so I read Murder by Memory by @oliviawaite.com
Local woman, dismayed at the state of the world, creates a pie
June 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Local woman, dismayed at the state of the world, creates a pie
I started reading The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison while waiting for my color to set in the hair salon Thursday, so I’m using it for the #BookBingoNW2025 Read in Public square.
June 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I started reading The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison while waiting for my color to set in the hair salon Thursday, so I’m using it for the #BookBingoNW2025 Read in Public square.
For the #BookBingoNW2025 Author From Another Continent square, I read Smoke and Ashes by Amitav Ghosh, which gave me a different angle on the role of opium over the past few centuries than I’d seen before.
June 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
For the #BookBingoNW2025 Author From Another Continent square, I read Smoke and Ashes by Amitav Ghosh, which gave me a different angle on the role of opium over the past few centuries than I’d seen before.
Ah, June in Seattle, when strawberries look like this.
June 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Ah, June in Seattle, when strawberries look like this.
