Culture Commentary and Miscellaneous Musings
Getting back into the groove of reading a bunch of online articles. I am trying to read them as quickly as I find them to avoid them piling up in my unread queue for months at a time.
If you missed the previous reading list post, you can find it here.
Continue reading “Reading List 9”
This book came out on the 16th of January, I started reading it on the 17th and was done by the 18th. I just absolutely devoured this book. It was entirely possible that I could have finished the book on the 17th if I had not stopped myself from continuing.
Continue reading “Review: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett”I am in between books at the moment so I took the opportunity on this bitterly cold Monday morning to clear out what’s piled up in my unread queue since November 2023 plus a few more recently published articles.
If you missed the last reading list, you can find it here.
Continue reading “Reading List 8”
Going back to the Studio Ghibli catalogue for a bit here. This movie was directed by Isao Takahata who also directed Grave of the Fireflies. Grave of the Fireflies was quite good so I had high hopes for this one and it did not disappoint.
Continue reading “Review: Only Yesterday (1991)”Content Warning – This post talks about heavy topics like death, grief, burnout and mental health.
Anyone who’s gotten over a heartbreak or a bereavement knows that there aren’t five stages of grief you pass through like they were five whistlestop towns on the train route. You are more this way one day and more that way the other, looping and regressing, and maybe building reconciliation or acceptance like a log cabin while living in sorrow, rather than sliding into it like you were stealing third base.
Rebecca Solnit, Slow Change Can Be Radical Change
H/T to Kottke for sharing this on his blog.
Continue reading “On Death, Grief and My Mental Health”