Robin Bird

It’s Women’s History Month and we’re celebrating with writer spotlights!! Today’s spotlight is Sarah Winnemucca, the first Native American women to obtain a copyright! #booksky #womenshistory #womenwriters #womenshistorymonth #women #wisdomhousebooks

This series is new to me and might be something to dive into this year

Half way through. I'm nominally doing this for lent despite not being Christian as it stemmed from a conversation with a friend at a pancake party about reflection and "gratitude" as both a wellbeing practice and a spiritual practice.
It's a process i find helpful and gets me through rough times

Screen shot of the audio book player Everand showing a cover image for What Stalks The Deep by T Kingfisher. It also shows the player at the end of chapter 15, 99% complete and the various player controls.

Small joy day 20

Having a good audio book to listen to in bed when struck down by a migraine attack.

This is fantastic

I like seeing your rereads. I think there's so much enthusiasm for reading the next new thing that people forget the joy and value of rereads or some how don't think they "count". I love rereading things.

This article is actually about access to a bridge but it contains another example of somebody who uses an ebike as an accessibility aid and its just nice to see it in the local news like that.

I really liked that book. I really like this summary.

It upsets me that some people see me riding the bike as evidence that i don't have health impairments and I'm not disabled. They don't think that if they see me using a mobility scooter and they're both aides

I consider my bike as a mobility aid. It is often no more fatiguing than trying to use buses and considerably less overwhelming and anxiety triggering.
It's not perfect sometimes i still have to use busses or taxis but the bike gives me so much more freedom

It's still glorious. Ultra stylised, "aesthetic" adaptations can in fact, be done well. Contrary to recent evidence.

Photograph of the handle bars and front wheel of a burgandy coloured bike. The bike is on a green paved path. On the handle bars is a black bike bell. You might imagine it going "ting ting!" when rung.

Day 19 small joy

The many tiny interactions with strangers in passing.
Nods and smiles. The shared wince when a car braked suddenly. An entire group of joggers replying "ting ting!" after i rang my bike bell.

I have edited. I have added. I am editing again.
Still about 150 - 200 words too long.
But the content is looking a lot better.

Read "Lightbearer" one of 42 stories found in Interesting Times: a Hopepunk anthology 💙📚
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Well I've had to bookmark this for a free evening! What a compelling premise

Actually added my review on Storygraph now

Wow these look like entirely different books

It's so cool to be able to appreciate it in both contexts

Content* industry would be nice though

*[disambig.] to be satisfied with what one has.

This sounds fascinating

Finished The Eighth Life on Friday night after a whole month, so time for a new audio book.
Gone for the slightly shorter What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher

And into the last quarter of Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

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I think this says far too much about me as a person.

a man and a woman are looking at each other in front of a fish tank Alt: Classic scene from Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet in which our 90's floppy haired Romeo smiles coquetishly at an enchanted wavy haired Juliet through a tropical fishtank.

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet turns 30 [later] this year and I'm still not over it.
Not the age. The film. I'm not over the film.

A pile of purple rubbish bags on a pavement next to a patch of grass and mud. Just in frame are a pair of denim clad legs and a hand weilding a grabby stick.

Day 18 small joy

Litter picking with my neigbours

I really like this approach

I wonder how this interacts with international markets and online marketing? It's a term I've seen online a lot but not noticed in UK bookshops. I wonder how we categorise these books here.

Also i love a book where i feel like I'm learning. This has thoroughly expanded my knowledge of Soviet and Georgian history.

Cover image for The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili featuring concentric rings of shades of red with various floral or geometric patterns (as find in b textiles or ceramics). In the centre on a cream background is the silhouette of a woman's face in profile. She has her hair in a low bun

I finished The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili last night.

Oh my word.
What a book. This is one that will stay with me for a long time i think. It's long and heavy going at times but it is so full of character, story and emotion. Seriously considering buying the paperback

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This is actually something i hasn't considered (even as an autistic person who likes subtitles) and does sound like good accessibility

Close up picture of a cat flopped down on his side his head tilted. He has a very pink nose and a little muppetty mouth. He's very fluffy and soft looking

Day 17 small joy

Silly little creatures that live with me (related cat picture)