Let's Get Literate! Time is Fake Edition

[renay]

I have a cold. I'm blaming climate change and El Niño for screwing up winter; Arkansas practically had no winter at all and there were mosquitos out in January and I'm considering bug spray for my walks in the morning already. I've had a sore throat since March 3, I'm grumpy because of the time change, and I'm behind on everything it's possible to be behind on (especially laundry).

Last week I felt like sludge scooped out of the gutter, microwaved, stirred into some sawdust, and then poured into a human skin. But it turns out I'm not contagious and I don't have an infection; my allergies are making me feel like a sentient, oozing blob which is unreal because at one point last week I couldn't swallow without feeling like I had tilted a barrel of radioactive acid down my throat. I'm behind. I'm going to stay behind for awhile. Learn to live with the disappointments of your super organic and fallible meat suit, Renay!

( CHALLENGE: 100 Unique Women Writers )

I finished Illuminae and then got over-excited when I hit the library to pick up Legend:

• Legend by Marie Lu
• Salvage by Alexandra Duncan
• The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow
• Act of God by Jill Cement
• Dove Arising by Karen Bao
• The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig

I couldn't resist, but my allergies may get the last word on finishing this glut of books this considering I have the mental fortitude of an anesthetized toad. I remain glad I wrote up most of my comic book commentary before I got ill.

• Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
• Fullmetal Alchemist Vol. 2 by Hiromu Arakawa
• The Man Who Saved Manhattan by Sunil Patel
• All-New All-Different Avengers #6 by Mark Waid, Mahmud Asrar, & Dave McCaig
• Black Widow #1 by Chris Samnee, Mark Waid, & Matt Wilson
• Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #4 by Brandon Montclare, Amy Reeder, Natacha Bustos, & Tamra Bonvillain
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #5 by Ryan North, Erica Henderson, & Rico Renzi
• Lumberjanes #19 by Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Carolyn Nowak, & Maarta Laiho

( Recent reading! )