Daily Reading (11 August 2016)

[nanila]

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from the TOS to the back of the cereal box!

Comments

[nou]

Since last report, I have read:

• Invisible: Britain’s Migrant Sex Workers by Hsiao-Hung Pai
• Several chapters of The Comfortable Courtesan (not an intended juxtaposition, but rather I’ve given up on The Lord of the Rings and this was next on the fiction list)
• The side of an actual cereal packet, while waiting for a four-year-old to finish eating breakfast
• Hop on Pop by Dr Seuss
• Are You a Boy or are You a Girl? by Sarah Savage and Fox Fisher
• Poppleton in Fall by Cynthia Rylant and Mark Teague (this prompted much discussion of why lions won’t make plain pancakes)
• Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
• The 5 August 2016 edition of the Croydon Advertiser

[nanila]

That first one looks like a really good piece of investigative journalism. Would you recommend it?

[nou]

I definitely found it interesting, and it taught me a few things I didn't know. I did find the style a bit odd in places, as the author was reporting verbatim conversations that she seems not to have actually been present for, which pulled me out of the text a bit. Overall though, yes, I'd recommend it!

[fred_mouse]

I made progress on 'Cats of Seroster', which is one of my 'recommended by friends' 2016 reading list. I lasted about 45 minutes before holding the book hurt, and I went back to fic reading.

And an absolutely fabulous MCU fic with time travelling Darcy Lewis. This is the second long form time travelling Darcy Lewis goes back and makes friends with Peggy/Howard/the Howling Commandos story I've read, and it appears that I have a real love for this niche.

[nanila]

Huzzah for enjoyable fic reading, both for its own sake and as comfort!

[azurelunatic]

Rather a lot of fanfiction!

[nanila]

\o/ YAY!

[gool_duck]

Mostly twitter. It included an extended thing of anguish from someone who I think is lovely but I'm not close to them, and I can't really help, I think, and it made me sad to be trapped inside the shiny internet box without having the means to reach out to that person.

Also a bit of facebok.

[nanila]

Aw. I'm sorry reading Twitter left you feeling a bit helpless. Sympathetic sorrow is hard to express. I hope you have some means to lift your spirits.