Bookish high points of my year:
- Janelle Monáe reblogs & shares my post showing off my outfit for her Age of Pleasure tour and talking about her lyrics; made friends, was front row all night, and got a set list
- Chosen to be on the committee for the 2024 Fuller Award with the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
- Discovering new independent bookstores: Rust Belt Books in Buffalo NY - Keibunsya in Kyoto - Subterranean Books in St Louis - Odyssey Bookstore in Ithaca - Giovanni’s Room in Philadelphia
- Picking up the first part of Tale of Genji at Daikanyama T-Site in Tokyo and deciding to read the whole-ass thing (and doing it)
- Accidentally going viral on TikTok (we’re at 1.8M views!) for my post about “Untitled (Double Portrait)” by Felix Gonzalez-Torres at Buffalo AKG
- Reading Ursula Le Guin at the base of Old Tree, one of the biggest coastal redwoods in California
- Celebrating love (at three weddings and one 50-year anniversary celebration) while practicing self-love by finding dresses I genuinely felt beautiful in
- Got my first-ever front cover blurb
- Wrote a piece I’m very proud of about the author of the Frog and Toad series and about its persistent popularity
Despite all the pain of my year, I have so much to be proud of. I am very, very proud of myself and my resilience this year. Now onto the next!
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The urge to quit everything I'm doing; grab my dog and move to Amsterdam to open a bookstore that is also a bakery and coffee shop, with pretty flowers on the outside. Just keeps getting bigger the more I get older.
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