https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mount-asahi

Mount Asahi on a clear day.

On July 24, 1989, two hikers from Tokyo had gone missing while climbing to the summit of Asahi-dake, the highest point of Hokkaido. As the sun was setting, a helicopter search crew made a startling discovery: a crude but massive SOS sign, constructed of fallen trees. The search parties converged on the vicinity of the sign, and found the two men in a cave about two or three kilometers north of the sign, frightened and dehydrated, but otherwise unharmed. The rescuers commended the hikers for building the SOS sign, as they wouldn’t have been able to find the hikers without it. However, the hikers were confused - they had no idea the sign existed, and were too exhausted to build such a sign as it was.

Realizing that there were probably other missing people on the mountain, the Japanese police sent more people to search the site of the distress sign. Upon further examination, the SOS sign was not built of random deadfall, but instead cleanly chopped logs. There was also a hole containing a backpack, a tape recorder, and a drivers license belonging to one Kenji Iwamura, a man who had been missing since 1984. Disturbingly, there were also fragments of human bone, including a skull.

Aerial photographs proved the SOS had existed since at least September of 1987. One of the tape recordings was a man’s voice. He was shouting “SOS; help me! I can't move on the cliff! SOS; help me! The place is where I first met the helicopter! The sasa is deep, and I can't get up! Lift me up from here!”

It is worth noting that there are two similar-looking landmarks on the Asahi-dake summit trail: Kinko Iwa, or Safe Rock, and Nise Kinko Iwa, or Fake Safe Rock. Safe Rock is a useful indicator that one is close to the summit of Asahi. However, if one were to fall off the ledge near Fake Safe Rock, they would find themselves in a dense forest of sasa, a type of bamboo.

At first glance, it may seem obvious that Kenji Iwamura fell off the cliff into sasa, built an SOS sign to try to call for help, and died waiting for the return of a helicopter that he thought had spotted him. However, Kenji’s family could not confirm the voice on the tape belonged to him, nor have the bones found at the scene been decisively identified. Moreover, no axe or saw capable of cleanly chopping trees has ever been found at the SOS site. Even if it were, it would be very difficult for someone who had recently fallen off a cliff and broken bones to build such a monument.

Whoever built the sign, whether it was Kenji Iwamura, the person in the hole, or someone else, they did end up saving lives that day. The two hikers who happened to take shelter near the SOS owe their rescue to the mystery SOS builder. While the sign did end up serving its purpose, it is unfortunate that it did not save the person who built it.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mount-asahi

rachelmanija

Danny is a 15-year-old closeted trans girl in a world where superheroes are real. She's across town from her home and her transphobic abusive father, hiding in an alley and painting her toenails with polish bought in a shop as far from her home as she can manage, when America's strongest superhero, Dreadnought, gets in a fight with a supervillain, crashes at her feet, and passes on his powers to her, since she's the only one there to receive them, before dying.

His powers automatically reshape her body into her mental ideal. So now she's physically a very pretty, very strong girl with superpowers... who now has to explain this to her abusive transphobic parents, everyone at her school, and the local superheroes, one of whom is a TERF. Not to mention that the supervillain who killed Dreadnought is still out there...

This is basically exactly what it sounds like: a superhero origin story for persecuted trans teenagers. It's very earnest and has absolutely no subtext. My favorite parts were the bits where Danny gets her gender affirmed by new friends and a sympathetic superhero, which are genuinely very sweet, and when Danny finally proclaims herself the new Dreadnought, which is a great stand up . But overall, I'm too old to be its ideal reader.

mrissa

Review copy provided by the publisher.

Welllll, I bet Vo wishes this was less topical.

Given the time it takes to put a book through production, she was clearly thinking about refugees and their treatment with the cohort of us who knew that it was a crucial world political issue before the early months of 2026. But now here we are, and hey, look! A protagonist who is sensitive to and helping refugees without requiring them to be moral paragons! Everybody buy two copies and pass them around, its time has come.

I am not being sarcastic.

This is the latest in the Singing Hills Cycle, which is the chronicles of Cleric Chih and their memory hoopoe, Almost Brilliant. It is a perfectly good entry point to the series--you will smoothly and swiftly find out who these people are, what they're up to, and why you should care, and then you can circle back and read the others as you can find them. (They're still in print, but we live in parlous times etc.) And while the plight of refugees is not exactly an upbeat topic, the different volumes have different levels of harrowing, and this is definitely on the less-harrowing end, which often makes for a good starting point. (Again parlous times.) I'm glad this series is ongoing, and I'm glad this is the way it's going on.

oursin

What I read

Finished Never After, I can see that there are good things about it, but it was just not really what I was looking for at this particular time. It's historical novel, rather than romance.

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I then finally got stuck in to Edward St Aubyn, Parallel Lines (2025), but although I did finish it, did not think it came up to Double Blind, found it hard to keep track of the various characters, and was a bit disappointed.

Started SJ Fleet 'The Secret Barrister', The Cut Throat Trial (2025), which is that ?tapestry-style novel of a trial where it gives you the viewpoints of the various parties involved, and even though I could see (or maybe because I could see?) it was not going to turn out as clearcut a case as it looked, could not get involved, gave up.

Also started and gave up, Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing (2023), because I was getting vibes of a kind of narrative I have been there and done that many times over the years and this was not bringing the over and above that would have kept me reading.

Decided that I wanted to read some more Arnold Bennett and found that I had Mr Prohack (1922) on the ereader and not sure I'd ever read it. Not by any means one of the top Bennetts but still quite acceptable.

On the go

Project Gutenberg have only just released Naomi Royde-Smith's The Tortoiseshell Cat (1925). I have been wanting to read something, anything, by Royde-Smith for ages, and this is showing very promising. Our protag starts out as teacher in a girls' school with rather more ambitions than those in which D Richardson's Miriam finds herself, but has just been fired.

Up next

No idea. What do Tiggers eat?

lydamorehouse

First, I feel that I'll be accused of burying the lead (alternately lede, if you are old school) if I don't start with this: I got the library job out in Anoka County!!

This is exciting!

And also a hassle!

As I may have mentioned in my previous post about this, there were two jobs available to the candidates. I was sincere when I told the interviewers that I did not care which one I got, if I got one. It is, of course, easiest to say that when actually landing the job seems like a distant prospect. The job I ended up with has, what is quite obviously, the more terrible schedule of the two options. Library work always requires evening and weekend work, but I will be working both Saturdays and Sundays every other week. This is particularly rough for me, as someone who often hopes to attend SFF conventions on the weekends. I am unclear how friendly this workplace will be to me announcing that I can not work some assigned shifts? I won't have to test this until July, when Convergence is going to slam headlong into a "week 2" of my schedule, aka my weekend hours. (I am also GoH, as mentioned many times now, at Quantum Con, but as CHANCE WOULD HAVE IT, that weekend falls on my "week 1" week and thus is not a week I am expected to work weekends.)

So, it's going to be interesting to work all that out. For the moment, I am excited to be taking on some extra work, especially since the nice thing about this particular schedule is that I will only be expected to work two four hour shifts, every work week. The way everything actually works out, given that week 1 begins on a Tuesday for me, there will, in fact be weeks where I will have worked the previous weekend and then also have to work into the evenings of both Tuesday and Thursday. But then I'll get this weidly long gap before I have to do it again.

I can see why this position was open? I can only imagine people want out of it ASAP.

Given that we are a one car family, this is also just... a lot of logistics for us. We have solutions to all of that in the works already, however.

Second, since a lot of you got very invested in my phone problems yesterday, I am happy to report that I am already in possession of a brandnew phone. I have not yet moved everything over to it, but that will probably happen tonight. (I may need my wife at home to hold my hand, as Tracfone can be notoriously annoying when activating and switching to a new phone. At least my previous/current phone is still in my possession and I can access it. The worst is when you've lost or totally bricked your previous phone.) In the meantime, the gods have chosen to laugh at me. Yesterday, after spending the day (and notably my patrol) with my phone OUT LOUD sans earphones,* I dropped it. I didn't think anything of it until, without thinking, I went to turn it on with my headphone jack and VIOLA. It suddenly decided to work again. This was, of course, about two second after Shawn had hit the "buy it" button at Best Buy.

Ah well.

Otherwise, today is Wednesday and I have managed to read almost nothing the entire week. I have a zillion books out from the Ramsey County Library right now. They're even manga, something that I am known to consume at ligthning speeds. For whatever reason, I have just not picked them up. I'm going to renew them one more time, but, obviously, if I can't get through them after that, I'll just have to give up. The same has been happening with my audiobooks. I did start to listen to Volatile Memory by Seth Haddon, but I just couldn't get into it. What I have on audio right now is:

Sunbirth by An Yu
Audition by Katie Kitamura
The King Must Die by Kemi Ashing-Giwa

If anyone has a recommendation of which I should try next, please let me know!

I just hopped over to Instagram and it looks like my mutual aid folks are up and in operation today. I still need to have a little bit of something to eat for lunch, but I might wander over there in a bit and give them some of my time. Also, I am curious AF if Colin actually got enough money to fully fund "distro" or if we're going to be sending out sad little bags of beans and a couple of apples or what. Curiosity and drama. It's what my end of this resistance runs on.

If people want, I can also give you an anti-ICE resistance update at some point. The short of it is that last Friday I was on a live call while on foot patrol near a local mosque and listened to a commuter attempt to stop an abduction here in St. Paul. According to what I heard on school bus patrol yesterday, there was also another person stolen from their family and their home extra-legally the day before (Monday, also in Saint Paul). The bastards are still doing their grab and go of human beings, many of whom are attempting to follow the legal process of immigration. (And even if they aren't? Masked men randomly hauling a person away isn't how this is supposed to happen.) We, the Resistance, are generally low on commuters and patrolers "post surge," so that isn't helping matters. If we don't get recordings of these events, ICE can lie about them more easily and/or act like they never happened. Luckily, I know for a fact that during the Friday's kidnapping, our commuter was able to get the name of the person ICE abducted. Thanks to being there and his quick thinking, that meant we could follow-up. While I listened, I heard reports of people returning to the scene to try to find family, friends or other contacts to make sure that the abductee's family knew they had been taken and try to get them legal aid, anything else they might need right away.

I can't even imagine what it must be like. To say goodbye to a loved one or your parent or your child as they (or you) head to work in the morning and then.... they just never come home. And you don't know where they went or if they're okay. And by the time you find out, if you ever do, they might be in another state or another country, all alone. If that happened to Shawn I wouldn't even know what to do, how to go on. To think that my neighbors face this every day is just heartbreaking.

And this is why I pray some of us will never stop fighting.

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*The live call I join is unvetted and everyone involved knows that they could be overheard. Everyone is very circumspect about locations and events.

dorchadas

"Awake in the Night" icon during the day? What?

So last night, right before bed,

sashagee took Laila's temperature and found that it was above the 38.6°C threshold for us to call into the hospital and so we did. After some deliberation on their end, they asked us to come in, so we hauled Laila out of bed and brought her to the Lurie's Children's Hospital emergency room.

At 8:45 p.m. we checked in.
At 10:30 p.m. they took her vitals and a respiratory illness swab.
At 11:45 p.m. they took us back to a room.
At 12:15 a.m. a doctor came and asked us what the problem was.
At 12:30 a.m. they took her vitals again
At 1:30 a.m. they they took a blood sample and a more comprehensive respiratory swab
At 1:45 a.m. she fell asleep.
at 3:00 a.m. a doctor came back and told us based on the blood sample and the swab...she had a cold and needed rest and fluids.

Emoji Psyduck

So we all went home and went to sleep, and

sashagee woke up early to let me get extra sleep. Once I woke up, I tagged in and she went back to sleep...and so did Laila so here I am sitting and writing this. Laila has felt perfectly fine since around 10 p.m. last night and other than being tired, doesn't seem sick at all. I was skeptical before we went in that it would be anything, and it wasn't, but you really don't want to mess around with any infection on your head so it was worth getting checked out. But I'm definitely tired.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward - Another Brick

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sheeps-bridge

Bridge crossing

The Verde River Sheep Bridge (also known as Sheep Bridge or Red Point Sheep Bridge) is a pedestrian suspension bridge spanning the Verde River in a remote section of Tonto National Forest, Arizona. It serves as a key access point to the west side of the Mazatzal Wilderness.

The original bridge was constructed by the Flagstaff Sheep Company and the Howard Sheep Company to safely move sheep between winter and summer grazing ranges, reducing losses from hazardous river crossings. Road access to the site was prepared in early 1943, with main construction occurring primarily from March to June 1943 and concrete work on the towers completed in January 1944. The bridge cost $7,277 and incorporated salvaged materials from an Arizona mine and a railroad line, built largely with hand tools and limited resources during World War II under the engineering design of Cyril O. Gilliam and supervision of Frank Auza and George W. Smith.

Sheep drives across the bridge continued until 1978. The structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1978, recognizing its significance to Arizona's sheep-raising industry and as the last remaining suspension-type sheep bridge in the state.

The original bridge was closed in 1987 due to deterioration from age, use, and flooding. It was largely demolished in 1988. The U.S. Forest Service constructed a replica pedestrian bridge in 1989, designed primarily for hikers and recreational users. The original west concrete tower from 1944 remains standing nearby.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sheeps-bridge

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https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/26530612-mention-at-the-museum

Ran across this poll that mentions me this morning from the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle...

https://www.mopop.org/sffhof-vote-2026

I'm trying to remember if I ever visited the place in one of its earlier incarnations during one of my many book tours/conventions that passed through Seattle; if so my memories are dim. Anyway, it's worth a visit if you are in their neighborhood.

Ta, L.

posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on April, 15

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/26530612-mention-at-the-museum

conuly

Just went to the store, spent over $90 for half a week's groceries just for me.

This is not sustainable, but it's not going to get better any time soon.

I could eat at work, but let's be clear, I don't much like the housekeeper's cooking, they rarely have in stock what I'd need to make my own food the way I like it (other than eggs), and also I have some weird food issues around... I don't really know. Eating other people's food? But not at a restaurant where it's okay? Maybe it's smelling the food? I honestly do not know, that's what makes these issues weird. (But even if I didn't, she boils the poor vegetables to death.)

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Posted by Amanda

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The Muse of Maiden Lane

The Muse of Maiden Lane by Mimi Matthews is $1.99 and a KDD! This is book four in The Belles of London series. I don’t think we’ve featured this one on sale before, but the series is highly recommended.

A 2024 BookBub Best Historical Romance!
One of Parade’s Best New Books of November 2024!
One of Amazon’s and Apple’s Best Romance Books of November 2024!

A silver-haired equestrienne and a charismatic artist turn a scandalous bargain into a vibrant portrait of love.

Stella Hobhouse is a brilliant rider, stalwart friend, skilled sketch artist—and completely overlooked. Her outmodish gray hair makes her invisible to London society. Combined with her brother’s pious restrictions and her dwindling inheritance, Stella is on the verge of a lifetime marooned in Derbyshire as a spinster. Unless she does something drastic…like posing for a daring new style of portrait by the only man who’s ever really seen her.

Aspiring painter Edward “Teddy” Hayes knows true beauty when he sees it. He would never ask Stella to risk her reputation as an artist’s model but in the five years since a virulent bout of scarlet fever left him partially paralyzed, Teddy has learned to heed good fortune when he finds it. He’ll do anything to persuade his muse to pose for him, even if he must offer her a marriage of convenience.

After all, though Teddy has yearned to trace Stella’s luminous beauty on canvas since their chance meeting, her heart is what he truly aches to capture….

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Island Queen

Island Queen by Vanessa Riley is $2.99 and a KDD! This is Riley’s first work of historical fiction as opposed to historical romance. It’s about Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free Black woman who achieved great wealth. Have you read it?

A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies.

Born into slavery on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat, Doll bought her freedom—and that of her sister and her mother—from her Irish planter father and built a legacy of wealth and power as an entrepreneur, merchant, hotelier, and planter that extended from the marketplaces and sugar plantations of Dominica and Barbados to a glittering luxury hotel in Demerara on the South American continent.

Vanessa Riley’s novel brings Doll to vivid life as she rises above the harsh realities of slavery and colonialism by working the system and leveraging the competing attentions of the men in her life: a restless shipping merchant, Joseph Thomas; a wealthy planter hiding a secret, John Coseveldt Cells; and a roguish naval captain who will later become King William IV of England.

From the bustling port cities of the West Indies to the forbidding drawing rooms of London’s elite, Island Queen is a sweeping epic of an adventurer and a survivor who answered to no one but herself as she rose to power and autonomy against all odds, defying rigid eighteenth-century morality and the oppression of women as well as people of color. It is an unforgettable portrait of a true larger-than-life woman who made her mark on history.

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The Book Eaters

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean is $2.99! I mentioned this on Get Rec’d for people who want horror with bookish themes. Please check triggers for this one, as I remember it being pretty graphic!

Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book’s content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries.

Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon—like all other book eater women—is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories.

But real life doesn’t always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger—not for books, but for human minds.

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Sylvia’s Second Act

Sylvia’s Second Act by Hillary Yablon is $2.99! This features a heroine who is starting over at sixty-three and it looks very fun! Shana was reading it in a previous Whatcha Reading.

Her husband’s cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn’t going to take it anymore. She’s moving back north, to the city of her dreams—with her best friend, Evie, in tow. Think a screwball comedy featuring a sophisticated Thelma and Louise with martinis in hand . . .

When sixty-three-year-old Sylvia finds her husband in bed with the floozy of their Boca retirement community, she’s shocked and furious . . . at first. By the time her head stops spinning, Sylvia realizes that actually, this isn’t what she wants anymore anyway.

So she enlists her best friend, the glamorous older widow Evie, to join her in setting up a new life in Manhattan. Sylvia’s ex-husband may have lost her life savings, but Sylvia and Evie are scrappy and determined, unopposed to pawning jewelry and roughing it in tiny apartments. And before long, Sylvia signs on to revive her decades-old wedding planning business with a former professional rival. Sylvia has a lot to prove, and beneath it all, she can’t help but wonder: Will she ever be able to get back into the dating game?

Sylvia doesn’t want to be twenty-five or thirty again. Her age gives her wisdom, experience, and perspective. A career, sex, fun, and a new romance—her entire second act is stretched out in front of her, beckoning to her. It’s her time, and watch out, world, Sylvia is coming!

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Japanese Tank Graveyard

On a random side-road behind the Ace Hardware in Kolonia on the island of Pohnpei sits a nondescript lineup of decaying Japanese light tanks from WWII. They appear to be Type 95 tanks, if that's your thing.

There is a chainlink fence, but no gate, and the dirt road runs right through it. There's no visible signage, descriptions, or entry instructions. The little tanks are all lined up side-by-side, as the island slowly eats away at them.

Pohnpei was ruled by Japan from the end of WWI, when they took over the now-Federated States of Micronesia from Germany, until the end of WWII, at which point they relinquished control to the Americans. The US military skipped over the island during the war, so there was never any battle fought here, but various remnants of the Japanese tenure exist around the island, this being one of the most notable examples.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/japanese-tank-graveyard

chickenfeet

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/04/15/elegant-straightforward-tristan/

james_davis_nicoll

Reaching the Moon is one thing; trying to settle and survive there is another matter...

Five Stories About What Happens After We Get to the Moon

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writethisfanfic

Hello on Wednesday! Sorry for missing yesterday -- anyway, how are things going in the world of fic?

Did you write?

- Yes!
- No!
- Not yet!

If yes, what kind of writerly activity did you engage in? How do you feel about it?
If no, what were the obstacles/situations that affected your writerly pursuits? What will you do differently tomorrow to get more writing done?
If not yet, because the day hasn't gotten going yet, what kind of writing activity are you planning (or hoping) to accomplish?

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/glover-garden

Nagasaki is often calls itself the window to the west, as for centuries it was the only place where westerners were allowed to visit. Originally this was only on Dejima island, but later expanded to specially designated 'foreigner zones' such as the hill on which Glover and his contemporaries lived.

Thomas Glover was a Scottish merchant who came to Japan in the mid 19th century. He is best known for his efforts to modernize japanese industry, especially ship building and coal mining. This made him very wealthy and influencial, enabling him the right to aquire the hill that is now Glover garden.

The park contains around 20 western style houses from the 19th and early 20th century, each dedicated to a part of Nagasaki history.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/glover-garden

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Members of a literature club wrestle with adolescence, crushes, and the fact their high school principal would like them to not loudly declaim the spicy passages from great works of literature.

O Maidens in Your Savage Season, volume 1 by Mari Okada & Nao Emoto

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sabotabby

Just finished: The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar. This one has been on my list forever just because of the author, so I never looked up what it was about or anything like that. If I had, I'd have read it sooner. It's a queer feminist retelling of "The Two Sisters"/"The Twa Sisters," a.k.a. Loreena McKennitt's "The Bonny Swans," which I loved as a teenage goth and still love as an adult goth. It's so immersive in its writing that I somehow failed to connect there being two daughters with one suitor, a miller with a daughter, a river, a land dispute, and a harper until about halfway through when the realization hit that El-Mohtar is at least goth-adjacent and approximately my age lol.

Anyway, it's about Esther and Ysabel, two sisters whose family owns a willow grove (willow being used for "grammar," a.k.a. magic) downstream from Faerie. Esther is being courted by the village incel but is in love with Rin, a shapeshifting Fae who plays the harp and has become enchanted by Esther's singing. Esther would kill or die for her younger sister, and the bond between them is gorgeously written.

Tangentially, "The Bonny Swans" always confused me as a kid because it's stitched together from a bunch of versions of the story, so the father is a farmer in the first verse but the king in the last, and it's unclear whether what the miller's daughter pulls from the river is a swan or a woman, and the novella actually goes a fair way to resolving some of these contradictions. But I also noticed that this is low-key a trans narrative, because in the first verse the farmer has "daughters, one two three," and in the last verse there's no middle daughter, but there's a brother named Hugh. This particular story just leaves out the middle child but there's a free plot idea for you if you want one.

Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou. Apparently feminist fairy tale retellings is the Nebula theme this year. This is Bluebeard; a modern day woman telling a story to her son about his father, flashing back to a dreamy narrative about a man who curses the land wherever he goes. It's haunting and poetic and unflinching in its depiction of not just domestic abuse but why women stay in abusive relationships. I thought it dragged at the end but was so well-written that I'd absolutely recommend it.

Currently reading: Here Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple. I just started this last night after pre-ordering it the second I knew of its existence. It's a detailed, illustrated history of the Jewish Bund and the concept of "doikayt," or hereness, the formation of Jewish identity in the diaspora. Obviously this is very relevant and very up my alley and this is the right person to tell the story.

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Dreadnought, by April Daniels

A Long and Speaking Silence, by Nghi Vo

Wednesday has succeeded in printing out the whole of that manuscript

News on a lot of Fronts!

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A Couple KDDs, Dark Fantasy, & More

The Muse of Maiden Lane

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Island Queen

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The Book Eaters

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Sylvia’s Second Act

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Japanese Tank Graveyard in Kolonia, Micronesia

Elegant, straightforward Tristan from Dresden

Five Stories About What Happens After We Get to the Moon

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Glover Garden in Nagasaki, Japan

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O Maidens in Your Savage Season, volume 1 by Mari Okada & Nao Emoto

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