Man I’ve been doing this a long time. A Long Time. And this might be the worst I’ve seen. When publishers have been slow in the past, I feel like we always knew it was coming? This year, it was companies who have been dependable, with promised timelines, just completely failing. Not just 1 company.

Oof. Fingers crossed everyone was ok.

Do they remember me because I’m a kind person?

This is not so much a compliment to me as a damnation of society.

(Also I’m the fat lady by myself reading. Maybe doing a crossword puzzle.)

Gah: alt text. It’s a pic of Glenn Close from Sunrise on the Reaping, but the microphone in the foreground somehow makes it look like the cover of a Who Was book.

That extra layer when the family of a regular who has passed is cleaning her things and sells back to the store the books you spent years selling to her.

Haha I bought that same pink typewriter for myself this weekend as a little treat for actually folding my laundry. My favorite thing is that you can also make it into a keytar if you want. I mean, I don’t want. I want a typewriter. But I love knowing that my typewriter has a keytar living inside it

People think they are the simplest things but they are so hard to do well. But when they are done well, they can delight or soothe or inform or destroy. All in 32 pages.

I made Discworld my vacation reading. For years, every time I go on vacation, I ignore all work reading and read Pratchett. I started with Wee Free Men and it was perfect for me. I’ve still got a ways to go.

I don’t want my camera to see it! Dear lord, I need to save money for an aurora vacation.

GAAAAHHHHH That’s not true. I am happy for you that you are seeing an aurora. I just need to breathe for a minute.

Oh no I just realized I’m going to need to pick a guy to dress as for Children Institute next year.

For me, I was done on the very first spread when there were the fish making sandcastles on the shore, but the bear had an aquarium breathing helmet?!? What?? And then every page just got better.

Oh man, my rep said that most of her stores were having to get talked into it, and I basically jumped on her with how bananas perfect it is. I’ve made about 18 people look at it in the last 3 days.

It is this intense reminder that kids DO NOT HAVE RULES in their brains And the greatest joy If art is remembering that when you are making it, you also do not need to follow any rules. Also, eff off AI www.harvard.com/book/9781464...