I especially loved the pictures in North Woods, because a) adults like pictures too, like why are we suddenly 18, so no more pictures in books?, and b) the pictures were suggestive, but not definitive. They were visual poems all their own. Just A+ stuff.

it feels illegal to call a book "perfect", but lock me up, North Woods by Daniel Mason is perfect! A simple structure (the story of a place through time) made complex by style and well-placed magical realism. The nature descriptions are inspiring, energizing. An immediate re-read. #booksky 📚💙

The Flick was recommended to me by a friend with excellent taste. Loved it, and so wish I could see it performed! I read most of it while waiting for a film to start at the Egyptian, which is now owned by Netflix, and I could not have chosen a better place or time to read this lol. #booksky 💙📚

A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett - one of my favorite reads of a very big reading year! This and The Tainted Cup are such fun and inviting fantasy mystery novels. The world building and lovable characters are just 👩‍🍳💨💋. I hope he writes 1 million more of these. 💙📚

Katabasis is so enjoyable I read it in one weekend! An adventurous, satirical journey through hell that kicked me out of a reading slump. The use of paradoxes as magical elements was genius, a lot of attention paid to making that "logic" work. The book felt like a mental sandbox in every way. 📚💙

Pink cover of novel Bear Season by Gemma Fairclough featuring graphic print Bear with yellow overlay of a woman

No clue where I got this book rec, which makes this book feel even more mystical. You stumble into the Alaskan wilderness with Bear Season, walk around a bit, then leave with more questions than answers. The structure is playful without being too obscure. A well done mystery! #booksky 📚💙

ugh, I wish when I'd worked with Michael Uppendahl I'd asked him how they worked out the split screens on Fargo. How much planning went into them? Did they do intensive storyboarding, time them out? How did they get them to be so perfect?? #TVSky

Moai - Wikipedia

like the heads of Easter Island...not a sound." I didn't catch this line until my current viewing of Fargo S2, it's quite an interesting reference. To this day, no one really knows how they moved these mysterious (and heavy) monoliths: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai #TVsky

I'm re-watching Fargo Season 2 - such an inspiring TV season. So stylish and fabulously put together. Their music supervisor GOAT Maggie Phillips really lives rent free in my head. What do her music libraries look like, I wonder!

illustrated hand holding a teacup with snake wrapped around the hand, spiders dropping from the title

Really had to couch my last couple of reads with something whimsical, Cackle 100% satisfied that itch. Cozy horror tale about a woman befriending a spooky witchy lady in her new upstate NY town after a bad breakup, it was very enjoyable, escapist, and not a white supremacist in sight 😅 #booksky 💙📚

book cover of The Hate Next Door featuring red fence with black and red writing

I read The Hate Next Door quickly, because I knew I wouldn’t get through it otherwise. Written by an ex-cop about his work against white supremacists, it's a great overview of white nationalist markers & how to recognize these dangerous people in the US. He gives a needed, important viewpoint. 📚💙

I'm watching the Say Nothing series on Hulu, and I can't help but laugh every single time I see the Gerry Adams disclaimer, the show is just actively making fun of his whole schtick. "I am not Gerry Adams!! And even if I was, Gerry Adams is not in the IRA!!"

Say Nothing is an account of the Troubles built entirely from interviews and reports of the time, and wholly worth reading even if you are a novice. There are hunger strikes, crazy bombings, neighbors shunning and informing on each other…and they didn’t want to call it a real war! Insane. 📚💙

this play really made me so happy, I loved the rearrangement of scenes and ludicrous expansion of BTS commentary via noir style at the end. Maybe that's the editor in me. The tone changes from comedy/drama/comedy/drama were feverish. O'Hara must have had a ball directing it!

Just saw Hamlet in DTLA! I can see why reviews are divided, but I loved it! A lot of Hamlet is what you infer, and this play said "actually no, let's talk about it" in an insane, goofy take on a classic. Totally enjoyable and fun, if a little ambitious in execution (pun intended, RIP pun king Will)

Teal blue cover of Mythos by Stephen Fry with Greek gods and dieties in various poses forming the center illuatration

As many audiobookers who have Googled "best audiobooks of all time reddit" will attest, Mythos is an engaging and funny retelling of Greek myths from Stephen Fry. And bonus, it helped me with the challenging New Yorker crossword this week. #booksky 💙📚

Ooh, lovely contrast at play!

Thank you ☺️

Haha thank you! It really looks so small, which worried me at first, but I did a try on earlier and it fits. I think blocking will relax it a bit too, as it's a cotton blend.

With the right audiobook or podcast, anything is possible! (My first skein I ever bought took 5 hours to unravel after I messed up the wind)

Pink colored tank top knitting WIP on needles held up to camera with ball of yarn in top right

another #WIPWednesday, on Thursday. I should set a calendar alert or something. The tank top is almost finished, I'll try it on tonight to figure out the strap situation. Very happy with it so far ✨🧶

Ugh I'm sorry Matt, I hope you find something soon.

Do people use LinkedIn?? Maybe I should update mine too!

The real lesson of this book is you can just be an art thief. Apart from a few years here and there in prison, it's fine! Just grab all the stuff you want from museums, throw it in a river, get caught a few times even, no one will really do much or be that mad! (this book is great) #booksky 💙📚

it's looking so beautiful though, it's worth it!

Wow, amazingly neat work!! ❤️

A Noro BLANKET? omg, my bank account is screaming in solidarity 😅😅😅

I actually love when I hate something I read, especially when it's popular, because then I know I'm not some robotic consumer that has no taste. I have thoughts, feelings, pure self righteous angry platitudes!!

An evening of mourning in our house today: husband is alternating playing Assassin's Creed, then sadly scrolling Reddit while listening to a Knicks post-mortem podcast 😬

Luc was fully my favorite character! 😂 he kept me guessing, and kept Addie on her immortal toes when he would transport her around the globe once every few years lol.