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Reading Wednesday, 7/29/2026
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Ursula K. Le Guin, The Phoenix, in In the Stacks. Short Stories About Libraries and Librarians, Edited and with an introduction by Michael Cart, The Overlook Press, Woodstock and New York, NY, 2002, pp. 18-23
Have you read "How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity" Edited by Michael Cart?
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Book #75 - How Beautiful The Ordinary - Twelve Stories Of Identity by various authors
[this is a collection of short stories, each written by a different author, edited by Michael Cart. Title is long enough as is, so I wanted to clarify.] (first time read; this anthology of stories about queer experiences is from 2009 and thus made me feel both very young and dumb and very old and dumb at the same time.) Normally I go about anthologies by commenting on every story in turn.... but that's kinda redundant here. I liked all of them, to one degree or another. Loved a few, filed a few others under "eh, not my thing, but still fine", and the rest was just.... good. Fun. Fine. Lovely. Even when I couldn't relate to one aspect of a story, there was always some thing to grasp onto. If not a mirror of my own experience, then a love for the millions and millions of experiences different from mine. Queer is not a monolith. And I love reading books like this, that remind me of it. The harsh but somehow reassuring truth that there is no repliqua, no doppelganger-me out there that understands all of me perfectly and who I 100% relate to in turn. We're just people. In the end. And we're all just a bit different from each other, just a little off from one another, and I don't know why that thought is filling me with an existential peace, but it does. How beautiful the ordinary, indeed. ("A Word From The Nearly Distant Past" by David Levithan will never fail to make me cry, for the rest of my life.)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 12/? Fandom: Agent Carter (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel (Comics), Marvel Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Michael Carter & Original Female Character Characters: Michael Carter (Marvel), OC - Character, Brian Falsworth, Original Female Character(s), Jacqueline Falsworth-Crichton, Madeline Joyce, Thomas Halloway, Kenneth Crichton Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Period Typical Attitudes, Espionage, Action/Adventure, Road Trips, World War II, Smoking, Drinking, Male-Female Friendship, Queer Character, discussion of trauma, Bisexual Female Character, Gay Male Character, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Attempted Sexual Assault, Blood and Injury, Blood, Injury, Golden Age (Comics) Series: Part 2 of The Invaders Summary:
Reports of Michael Carter's death were greatly exaggerated.
In this story, we learn about what happened to Peggy's brother, secret projects, and other origins.
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Young Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism (3rd ed.) by Michael Cart
On my first time in the ALA Annual Convention (Chicago, 2017) I bought this book. As someone who breathes literature, I love to learn about the development of literary genres, movements and the likes, so when I saw this title, I had to buy it.Â
I found it interested. It had information I already knew about but I also learned new things about the development of what we know now as YA literature. If you like YA fiction and want to know about it’s development, this is a great book. Here you will read about key authors and titles that impacted its development and much more.Â
Book cover photo from ALA Store -Â https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/young-adult-literature-romance-realism-third-edition
“Powerful, riveting, and real. Sixteen celebrated authors bring us raw, insightful stories that explore guns and teens in a fiction collection that is thought provoking and emotionally gripping.“
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reading a book on the history of young adult literature
and I swear I have never read something with a ya audience in mind that so blatantly hates romance, young adult romance, and females who enjoy romantic and "chick lit" booksÂ
like really you are writing on a book on literature focused on teenagers and you hate like 50% of those teenagers (and a majority of the people who read the genre you are writing about i just don't even)