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No One Will Come Back for Us by Premee Mohamed
This collection of seventeen short stories is dark and weird and frigging awesome, and would serve as an excellent introduction to Premee Mohamed’s writing for anyone looking for one. I should note, before I begin, that if the stories here had been arranged in another order, I might well have felt differently about the three stories that didn’t quiet float my boat. But the collection starts with…
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he is walking
MPA Day is coming up on August 1 so I've been seeing a lot of "Save the Date" images across my feeds. Even though the day has only been celebrated for the past five years, starting originally in South Africa, it's now recognized and celebrated around the world with various activities and educational platforms including the UN Ocean Decade.
Why are marine protected areas so important? The folks at Oceans Research delve into that question some here. National Geographic had something to say too. You can look at this map to see activities near you and learn how to get involved.
Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford
This was a library book I’d repeatedly picked up and put down in the past, intrigued by the blurb, but never quite enough to crack open the cover. I couldn’t tell you what made me pick it up and read it this time round, except that it’s being small and short appealed. It’s a weird, atmospheric story, that I found intriguing and borderline repugnant by turns, and only learned is considered Folk…
Fun for Monday: Six in Six 2026
Six in Six banner image courtesy of Words and Peace It’s been a minute since I last did a tag as I’d definitely lost my enthusiasm for them (just about managing to keep on top of posting at the moment, so tags have been feeling very extra), but seeing this one over at Keira’s Bookmark, A Dance with Books and Wicked Witch’s Blog, and then finding out that it’s being hosted by the lovely Emma at…
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Quick Fire Reviews from Quarter Two
Here are the things I read or listened to during April to June that don’t merit individual posts, but still deserve to be acknowledged. I didn’t think I’d read all that much over the past three months, so I’m quite pleased to have respectable list here. In order of reading … Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner This was written in such gorgeous prose that I’d find myself turning one phrase…
I spent the afternoon arranging our books by size and color (and it’s so satisfying and looks amazing) and my partner came home and stared in shock at the bookcase and then said “i’m a librarian, you can’t do this.”
him: you split up all the song of ice and fire books
me: yeah i know, they’re all primary colors, it’s perfect
him: [self-destructs]
You’re a monster
As a former bookstore employee, this hurts my soul. I mean, sure it looks nice, but how do you find anything?
it has occurred me during this process that apparently not everyone thinks about books by what color they are? like, literally when i’m looking for a book, i picture it in my mind. i have a very…tactile experience with the books i read and idk! i thought everyone did that lol.
my partner was like “how will i find [this book] for instance” and i replied “easy, it’s purple” and he looked at me like i was a witch.
OP your brain is neat and I love you for it you funky little color-coded cupcake. But you’re still a monster.
This actually is interesting in terms of information-seeking behavior, which is a thing librarians think about a lot and often actually study (some library jobs require you to publish, and academic librarians, for instance, will often use the students at the college they work at to study how they search for information in order to figure out how to best provide them services).
When you go for an MLS (Master’s of Library Science, which is a thing, and which is usually required for “professional-level” library work [which is also a weird and contentious concept that I won’t go into here]), one of the things you study is the organization of information. This deals with how to determine what a book or other material is “about"—a concept we tongue-in-cheek call “aboutness"—and how to convey that to a potential user of the item and make it easy for them to find. Things like keywords and subject headings, do I put this book about how often wild birds attack aerial drones in with books about birds or with books about technology, if its a fictional novel do I put fantasy in it’s own section or mix it in with all of the other fiction, so on and so on.
OP is organizing books by how they would look for them. OP’s partner is thinking in terms of aboutness. This is a system that works for OP because it’s their personal library: they know basically what books they own and they only own books that are relevant to them, and if they know what the book looks like, that can be a quick way to find it.
In a library that assumes the public (or people who do not own that particular collection of books) are using the collection, that doesn’t work. Books are often re-issued in multiple covers, or re-bound in new covers when they get worn out, and if the user doesn’t know what the book looks like or is expecting a different cover, they’re lost. That’s why non-personal libraries used standardized cataloging systems like the Dewey Decimal System or Library of Congress System to organize a book by what it’s “about”, and then put books about the same or similar topics together, marked with labels and signage so a person unfamiliar with the book or collection can find their way to it.
Basically, OP’s system works for their own personal library, because it’s best suited to how the primary user—OP themselves—looks for books. OP’s librarian partner is coming from a background of thinking in terms of a public-facing collection, where aboutness is the key criteria and communicating it to a user unfamiliar with the collection is the priority.
And also, OP is a monster.
Quarterly Report (Apr-May-Jun 2026)
The last three months have been a whirlwind, dominated by Thumb’s recovery from his op, and our parents’ increasing needs. Thumbs is now on a phased return to work and doing well and we have new routines in place for the parents, so things are … stable. June has been weird. My mood took a nosedive at the beginning of the month (possibly just a reaction to the previous three having been a bit…
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Stay hydrated! White-lipped Snail/Capaea hortensis/trädgårdssnäcka. Värmland, Sweden (27 June 2020).
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Lady Mechanika: The Monster of the Ministry of Hell by Joe Benitez, Beth Sotelo & Michael Heisler
Post the seventh – in which I continue to eke out my enjoyment of the Lady Mechanika series, savouring it like the rich, dark treat that it is. In this seventh volume, the framing story follows on from Sangre with Lady Mechanika, Dr Littleton, Fred, Allie and Monty heading out to the Founder’s Day Fair for some light relief. While the younger members of the party enjoy rainbow lollies and the…
Finished the latest mend literally right before I had to leave for a flight not perfect but it'll do
#pants of theseus made me smile
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The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
Although I’ve had Infomocracy on my TBR list for a few years, The Mimicking of Known Successes was my introduction to Malka Older’s writing, and this has definitely boosted my interest in reading more by her. Because this was a delight! Mossa and Pleiti are great characters that I enjoyed spending time with, but their home planet, Jupiter (called Giant in the book), totally stole the show … and…
Mine was buried even deeper, under Devices -> Typing -> How AI has helped you -> Typing insights.
(Spoiler: it hadn't helped me. But it was on by default.)
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The Pride of Chanur by C J Cherryh
This was such a blast, and so unlike the other two Cherryh books I’ve so far read as an adult (Downbelow Station and Gate of Ivrel) which both had their own moods, and Pride has its own mood again. This is a faster-paced read and a lot of fun, so that I’m tempted to say that this would be a great Cherryh ‘gateway’ book for anyone looking for a place to start. And this is where to find some of…
what you learn from hobbies:
consistent practice opens up whole worlds of skill that you couldn't imagine
making mistakes in the process of learning is not only natural, it is also essential
activities that you enjoy can give you more energy back than you spent on them
wow everything is so expensive
my hands hurt
my back hurts
I thought I could count but apparently I can't.
