Erin

When Google Reader was killed

Cover of the book An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine

Book #3

My life has been deprived of very confident yet incorrect whale facts ever since I finished Moby Dick

Cover of the book Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Book #2!

Picture of the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 1

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#Books
#BookChallenge

And the other cat has been spotted. Let the growls begin

Big fluffy gray cat, napping on a couch

This cat loves snuggles and also loves attacking the other cat. He has no middle ground.

Picture of the 31 books from the 21st century I've read that the NYT gave their stamp of prestige to

I'm feeling very cultured

Meet the real-life versions of Dune’s epic sandworms A Dune-loving worm palaeontologist makes the case that worms have been just as important on Earth as they are in the blockbuster film. A Dune-loving worm palaeontologist makes the case that worms have...

You need to read this. By the brilliant and worm-informed @plantnerd.bsky.social

Dear body, could we choose one problem at time? The only saving grace of strep throat is it doesn't include coughing, so having allergies at the same time is a real insult to injury

Reading a book about healthy aging, only to run into a story about hanging out with David Sabatini. The book notes that Sabatini used to be a professor at MIT but somehow skipped the part about him being fired for sexual harassment

A small square piece of embroidery. It is a fluffy white ground made using a punch needle and cut loop technique, and cutting across it are flattened embroidered footprints and paw prints

Oh gosh, this embroidered piece by Narumi Takada is so so lovely. “Stepping on Fresh Snow”

Collage of books I read in 2024, created by Storygraph

2023 was a good reading year! Thank you for the collage, @thestorygraph.com!

Me: I'm done answering questions for a while
3 year old: Why?

Tabby cat sitting under a Christmas tree

AbbyCat wishes everyone a happy holiday

Me, upon seeing my son eating Hershey kisses for breakfast today: "Jesus Christ! Uh, is the reason for the season"

Storygraph's 2024 challenges dropped, brb I need to plan out an entire year of reading

I want a critter with a slime coat and some looooong gills

Opinion | 1,374 Days: My Life With Long Covid Chronic illness has a way of picking apart your mind and breaking your heart.

Astonishing visual essay from Giorgia Lupi about her 1374 days with long covid. This captures the experience in a really powerful way. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Libraries are arguably the best thing the United states has going.

They are not just book collections. They are free public space, job finding lifelines, connections to family genealogy, vital resources for parents. Libraries should be funded, utilized, and universally accessible

Really grateful my pediatrician boosted me when I took my kid in. They met me where I was (literally) at

A mushroom some moss and two acorns on a log

A mushroom, maybe lion’s mane

Fall forest on a cloudy day

Turkey tail mushrooms and moss on a log

You can just go to the woods and look at mushrooms anytime you want, nobody can stop you
🍄📷

Unsuccessfully attempting to submit ILOC, which is used in pandas, to the NYT Spelling Bee

What does Spelling Bee have against pandas, aka my favoritePython package?

We also visited the dog at the flower shop, and she gave us a happy howl

Gray and white cat, asleep on a cat tower with his front paw over his head

Saw a sleepy champ at the catfe today

Admittedly not something I'm likely to pick up lol

What is it???

Just a recommendation here, but if your audiobook requires TWENTY-EIGHT CDs, you could probably stand to edit it a bit

I didn't realize part of parenthood would be mourning my kid learning correct pronunciation. I miss hearing appleshosh

What if instead of import numpy as np, we switched to import numpy as bofa? Just to mix things up a bit