What follows is the definitive ranking of Girl Scout cookies based on their attributes as determined by myself. As a former Girl Scout and someone who has enjoyed Girl Scout cookies from both bakeries, I feel qualified to have an opinion on this. And since I have a blog, I feel entitled to share my opinion with all of you.

Do you want to know what really grinds my gears? Book banning. If you’re reading this, I bet it grinds yours as well. So here’s what’s going on: Both my home state of Minnesota and the state of Maryland (to which I have no connection) passed anti-book ban bills in 2024. Woohoo! The Freedom to Read in these states is safe now, right?

“But Katie,” you may say, “ Most of these books are by women.” “Yes, they are," I reply. I feel like serious fantasy readers, even women fantasy readers, don’t read enough books written by women. When they think about the classics and the big names in sci-fi/fantasy they think about J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, H.P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells, and probably other various men with initials instead of first names.

Sometimes we are just not on top of things going into the holidays, and we wake up one day with a realization, “Oh shit, it’s the middle of December, and I still need to buy presents!&#…