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2024-04-272026-04-14

Review: The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

A 4:3 crop of the cover of The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff.

Wasn’t sanity like beauty, in the eye of the beholder?
Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

2024-04-222024-04-22

fragments of loneliness

This poem came to me as the first line and then I built on two words: lonely and single to really double down on the theme of loneliness. Secondary theme or word association here is plants.

I’m tentatively putting this in a series of poetry I’m calling Fragments. I want these to be short poems about a single topic.

2024-04-192025-09-17

Review: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

A 4:3 crop of the cover of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

A middle-aged white woman smiled warmly at them from behind the till. “Lovely afternoon, isn’t it?” she said, abiding by that ancient and most sacred British law of only ever starting a conversation with a comment on the weather.
Chapter 12 of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

2024-04-182024-04-18

Fighting Music Discovery Stagnation

Photo of the top of the lid of my laptop with several stickers on it one of which is a "I Power KEXP". — The recent addition of the KEXP sticker to my laptop is totally relevant to this blog post actually.

Last year in a blog post titled Recommended For You I talked about how I prefer human recommendations over ones made my machines. Today I saw a post shared by Nick Heer over on his blog about music discovery stagnation which linked to this post by Daniel Parris which made think about what I said in that blog post and how it applies to music discovery.

2024-04-142024-04-14

Reading List 16

If you missed the last reading list, you can find it here.