@bookstodon It's Memorial Day weekend here in the U.S. which is a great time to do some meaningful reflection. To that end, I picked up HEAVYWEIGHT, by Solomon J. Brager. The title is aptly chosen, in so many ways.
It's a graphic memoir about family, identity (including trans/nonbinary), intergenerational trauma, greed, war, bigotry, eugenics, class inequality, privilege, colonial genocide, the plight of political and religious refugees, and the process of confronting personal ghosts. It involved a massive research undertaking that formed the basis of the author's dissertation. I learned so much, even though I thought I knew a lot about the historical time period. Def recommend. #books#bookstodon#holocaust
Overnight, a tornado tore through an campground, which is one of the worst places to be in severe weather. If you get enough warning, there is usually a sturdy shelter in any large campground, sometimes it's the bathrooms or showers.
Or, as some opted to do, get to the nearest business*. Some went to the huge casino near the campground. Others escaped to a nearby restaurant and rode it out in the walk-in cooler, one of the best places to go.
Everyone in tornado country should have a weather app on their phone to get tornado warnings, especially while you sleep. You know the drill: take cover in a basement, cellar, or the lowest most interior room with no windows (bathrooms/bathtubs are strongest because they are anchored by plumbing.)
*gas stations and convenience stores are not great, but better than a tent, car, or RV. I have actually survived a campground tornado, so this news hit me hard. #Oklahoma#KOA#Campground#Tornado#Claremore
Okay, I totally suck at flower/tree/plant identification, so I don't know what these are, but they're in front of my mom's house. Hydrangeas, maybe? #bloomscrolling
I have a theory that the men who reply to posts with some version of "not all men" do so because they see some of themselves in whatever statement was made and they don't like it.
@Well_Worth_A_Read@horrorbooks@horror thanks for letting me know. I had this on my radar, but I wasn't sure about it. What did you think of Fairy Tale? I liked the gist of it, but it bugged me when he overexplained which fairy tales were being parodied instead of trusting the reader to catch the references.
@purplepadma I appreciate it. If they're willing to markdown over there, they can do it here!
As an aside, I wish that UK and US publishing were more merged. There are so many books which we can't get in libraries until a US publisher picks it up. I have one silly book which I loved, which was never picked up by a US publisher. I had to get it through the British author. TBF, I don't think that it had a large print run, but I'm convinced that people here would have enjoyed its quirky humor with reimagined roles for Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and a reanimated Lincoln. (Lincolnstein, by Paul Witcover)
The Trumpers are now going for the jugular in attacking the great 1965 precedent on which nearly all federal rights of privacy and personal autonomy depend, Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, upholding the right to use #contraceptives when having sexual relations.
Google search thinks you should use glue to stick together a pizza as its AI is trained on Reddit, where 11 years ago a user called “fucksmith” posted suggesting it was a good idea.
