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Check out this epic library haul!
I dropped fifty bucks on an international Queens Public Library membership. Currently poking through the graphic novel section.
panUnfortunately this one was really pretty terrible. At first I thought this was a woman using 2nd person to talk about her own experience, but no it's 400 pages of a man berating women for not leaving their abusers. Very repetitive and uninspired.
And epic library haul part four: guess who just signed up for an overseas e-library card for the Queens Public Library?
On my hook : My Nameless blanket by Helen Shrimpton, in Stylecraft Highland Heathers, colourway Marmalade. #litsycrafters
Epic library haul part two : graphic novels.
Epic library haul part one : I think this one deserves to stand alone. The new Albanese govt has a lot of unfucking to do in regards to our asylum seeker torture system.
Library haul part two - #graphicnovels
A wordless YA romantic story, a post climate change dark fairy tale, and a YA superhero comic by... Alicia Keys? Ok!
Library haul part one. I don't even knit, but this sounded interesting! I realise now the witch novel is second in a series, so oops, that's going back. #litsycrafters
pickThere are quite a few reviews calling this bland/trite/superficial. I didn't find it that way at all! I went in expecting a cute F/F AI/human romance, and what I got was a subtle, somewhat sparse (but not in a bad way) story about chronic pain, trauma, art, seeing, self, and belonging. #graphicnovels #romance #sf
When you thought your graphic novel was going to be a cute Sapphic AI/human romance and it turns out to also be a kinda harrowing chronic pain and trauma journey
#bigjunereadathon @Clwojick
It's a choose your own adventure - so I'm just going to have a go at reading all the library books I have out!
Library graphic novel. Apparently it's a Sapphic romance between a human and an A.I.
On my hook : first sleeve of the recycled-denim ripple pullover. #litsycrafters
pickTold in alt PoV, at different times, this weaves a story of two Drs fleeing from errors who both end up in Wittenoom. The visceral horror of the real-life industrial crime against the mine workers was one of the worst cases of creeping dread I've read for a long time.
I was a resident in a Perth hospital in the 90s, I remember these men gasping for breath. I've just, like so many paid $$$ for asbestos removal from my property. Yet CSR carries on.
Two doctors thirty years apart, both fleeing career disasters, end up in Wittenoom (now abandoned, WA's Chernobyl).
Off my hook now : I've finished my Beaded Diamonds Sweater! #litsycrafters
Audio listening while crocheting - this is the Sivu Sweater from Moorit magazine. Designer Linda Skuja, yarn is Hobbii Acacia cotton / acrylic. #litsycrafters
pickThis is what I wanted Boy Swallows Universe to be. It's “gritty“ Aus fiction from a woman's PoV. MC and her husband met when she was a supermarket cashier; he got clean & together they struggled their way to a different environment to try to get her daughter away from bad influences. MC now cleans houses of the well-off (she describes this in, well, not “loving“ detail, but detail); he has been dragged back into a dangerous situation due to debt.
I can‘t concentrate on books because of tomorrow‘s Australian federal election, so I‘ve nervously starting crocheting my husband a sweater. Just had to rip out two rows that were totally wrong. Maybe i should mindlessly binge Netflix instead. How‘s your day? #litsycrafters
I haven't heard anything about this graphic adaptation but it looks like fun so I grabbed it from the library.
Just picked up from the library : this adorable looking geeky manga with disability rep.
On my hook : bi pride halter top (a request from one of the young people in my life) #litsycrafters
Library haul #graphicnovel #graphicnonfiction #resist #artbooks
On my hook : Sunburst Squares
Reading the new Penny Reid! And it's a standalone. #romantsy #romance
On my hook : Winter Garden Beanie in Rowan Felted Tweed. #litsycrafters
Stayed up laaaate to watch this after it dropped on Netflix! They nailed this adaptation, and the cast are adorable.
I‘ve heard from a number of people that Eloise‘s story is not the best of the Bridgertons, but I‘m a completist and am going in with my eyes open.
On my hook : doing moss stitch tea towels with cotton scraps left over from other projects. #litsycrafters
Reading Full Disclosure for #booked2022 Living With AIDS/HIV prompt. Trying to get past my incredulity and fury at the early scene where a GYN sees a 17yo for her sex questions without even trying to kick her dad out of the room. NO, PEOPLE, THIS IS NOT NORMAL OR HOW IT IS DONE. Signed, a doctor with an interest in adolescent and sexual health.
On my hook : cotton summer boobs for a friend
Finished A Deadly Education. I rarely say this, but for me this was a novel that should have been a novella. The world-building was interesting but a bit repetitive, while the story was slight. If this was pared down to a hundred or so tight pages I think I might have liked it quite a bit more.
Fills Dark Academia prompt for #booked2022 and Blueberry prompt in #pantone2022
@cinfhen @BarbaratheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft
@clwojick
Library batch. The YA road trip book looks good. #loveozya #graphicnovel
Check out THIS library haul! A Black Panther novel, a graphic story about IVF, a novel set in the asbestos town of Wittenoom, and the latest Caleb Zelic mystery. #australianwomenwriters #graphicnovel
Look what my library just got in!
On my hook : a beach skirt for my niece in Catona cotton. No pattern, I'm winging it. #litsycrafters
And a bit of an update on my #pantone2022 challenge! @Clwojick
Not my fave of the Bridgertons so far - but it will certainly do the trick for a retelling for #booked2022 : this is a Cinderella story.
Well, if I didn't dislike Benedict already this would certainly solidify it. Never interrupt a woman while she's reading!
He better get a decent redemption arc...
#bridgerton
Good library pickup today! Three graphic novels and an Australian YA. #loveozya #graphicnovels #librarylove #bookhaul
It's a good day on Netflix! And I've just finished the yoke beading and am on to a mindless section with no counting. #litsycrafters #bridgerton
Enjoying this article in the latest Simply Crochet magazine. The pattern industry is finally waking up to inclusive sizing. #litsycrafters
I'm cracking on on my #Pantone2022 challenge! Loved “Best Wishes, Warmest Regards“, a retrospective of Schitt's Creek with quotes, interviews, lots of photos, fan art and more.
@clwojick #readingchallenges
Picking this one up.
(On my toast: Tante Josephine blood plum and dark chocolate jam, by Just Add Moonshine) #booksandfood
Library goodies!
so-soOthers have already provided plenty of reviews about how this is a visceral look at gay masculinity in a claustrophobic rural city. Three boys at a Catholic school - a nerd, a jock, and a punk - have different journeys toward dealing with their sexuality. (An older farm-boy features, too).
I'm mostly here to provide a couple content notes completely missing from most/all other reviews: there's a rape scene, and gross, unchallenged fatphobia.
New skill acquired! I am doing the thing!
Beaded Diamonds Sweater by Stephanie Erin. Twister Solid and Toho beads. #litsycrafters
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