Welcome to Litsy!

I recently updated my reading stats for the first time since May and confirmed I‘ve dropped the ball on nonfiction this year. To that end, I combed through Hoopla and found the tagged book, which is a fascinating look at the evolving face of queer nightlife, primarily in the UK. Ghaziani‘s an academic, with that audience in mind, but his prose is still accessible to laypeople. I‘m loving it.

Also, I painted some spooky stuff. #audiocrafting

Aliette de Bodard is one of those authors I really, really want to love, but I‘ve never clicked with her longer work. (I‘ve enjoyed some of her short fiction.) Going by this book‘s opening, I think maybe her prose is precise in a way that shuts me out of the story‘s emotional side. Hopefully the rest of the thing‘ll win me over and change my mind.

Also, you‘ll appreciate why I had to buy and immediately assemble this diorama kit. #audiocrafting

Audiobooking while making some artist trading cards. Love the cover of this book.

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Today I started RADIANCE, which feels like a book with which I could become totally obsessed, and I carved my first foam pumpkin. The hot knife tool didn‘t get hot enough to produce the smooth edges it advertised, but the pumpkin‘ll look okay from a distance once I get a better light, and it‘ll never rot. Good times. #audiocrafting

A friend recently gave me a bunch of his mom‘s costume jewelry. She had a huge, loud collection that I‘ve started to transform into suncatchers and wrist tethers for phones.

I‘m so, so close to the end of DUST OF DREAMS. While the series has featured rape from the get-go, this instalment feels ESPECIALLY rapey, with plenty of misogynistic overtones even when people aren‘t violating each other. That‘s soured me on the whole thing. #audiocrafting

I‘ve done so much manual labour this weekend that I‘m 36% into DUST OF DREAMS, a 44-hour audiobook, after only two days. Even at 3x, that‘s a LOT.

Also, all my muscles are sore. Like, really, ALL of them.

When I wasn‘t manually labouring, I also managed to finish this book nook I lucked into at the local Amazon returns store. It was only $10, instead of $50-70! Good times. #audiocrafting

Still plugging away at my tiny loft. I made some pretty significant changes to the rooftop terrace, since the official build was dull. It‘s now got a turquoise tile roof, more plants, a salvage table, a fabric rug, and a more dynamic furniture arrangement.

It‘s taken me most of the way through THE HOUSE WITCH. It‘s rather overlong, but still enjoyable. I should finish it today. #audiocrafting

Completed the first four bags of this Lego masterpiece while starting this lovely audiobook memoir!
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Further tiny bookshelf progress (now with personal touches like polished rocks from my childhood) while I listened my way to 66% of SHADOWS & DREAMS. I liked the first book in the series a couple years back, but somehow my memory of it didn‘t prepare me for the ABSOLUTE DELIGHT this second one serves up. So much hard boiled paranormal investigation! So many jokes! So many digs at Twilight! #audiocrafting #showandtelltuesday

I listened to more than half of HEAVENLY TYRANT while I built the structure for a new miniature (a garden loft!) and made most of the stuff for its all-important bookcase. Even at 3x, that was kind of an obscene amount of miniature assembly. Gonna call it quits for the day.

The book is definitely a departure from IRON WIDOW, but it‘s a logical one. I‘m interested to see where the story ends up. #audiocrafting