Curse those Normans and their bowdlerized mythology with kindly dwarfs! Give me the cunning, treachery, and gold-lust of dwarves any day!

I saw that there's a biography of the Blues musician Howlin' Wolf. Maybe the audio version would include his music?

The moon was full. Joellen sighed deeply, resigning herself to the inevitable, as she put her earbuds in, and opened the Lupify app. At least some ferocious beats would help with the inevitable pain of the change.

I avoid Spotify, but I'm intrigued by the possibility of a new streaming service called Lupify.

Thank you for teaching me a new acronym, dear Sparrow! I love that it sounds both affirming and Cottagecore.

As one on the cusp of Boomer and Gen X, this makes me giggle. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. It won't be so long before Gen Z is being written off by Gen Alpha.

I'm about 2/3 through Garth's "Tolkien and the Great War" at the moment.

This!

Brigid *always* wears her Link, which is housed in a lapis lazuli drop necklace. It gives her access to the AI at the university where she is a history professor.

Yum!

"If I were a pie," she asked herself, "what sort of pie might I be?"

I have read it, and did enjoy it a lot. Currently I'm listening to the audio of "Night Circus", by Erin Morgenstern, reading "Tolkien and the Great War", by John Garth in a book, and reading "A Closed and Common Orbit" by Becky Chambers on my Kindle.

I have a habit of reading several books at once

And I didn't realize you were so near me. Glad you're safe!

It's always who he talked to last

There's rich enough to buy a comfy chair, and then rich enough to buy a yacht with lots of comfy chairs. Naval navel-gazing pomposity, as it were

What they seem to miss is that environmental catastrophe affects them and their loved ones too

#karma

To be clear, that sort of nonsense is not restricted to the rich, the old, the white, or men. But it does seem that in my life I've known a preponderance of people described by that phrase who fit that description