Eight Book Minimum: *capslock resumes* [18/10/19]

[spindizzy]

Hello everyone! It's been approximately a million years since I posted an Eight Book Minimum, and so much has happened since then! Travel, Worldcon, mental health shenanigans, new jobs, turning thirty... It's been a lot! But there have been many books, so fingers crossed I'm going to have time to get back to yelling about them on the regular!

1. Midday Moon Volume 1 by Yayohi Monzen [Jump]


2. ADD-Friendly Ways To Organise your Life by Judith Kolberg and Kathleen G. Nadeau [Jump]


3. Robots Vs Fairies edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe [Jump]


4. The Tea Dragon Festival by Katie O'Neill [Jump]


5. Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu [Jump]


6. The Tale of Genji: Dreams at Dawn Volume 1 by Waki Yamato [Jump]


7. I Moved to Los Angeles to Work in Animation by Natalie Nourigat [Jump]


8. Bee and Puppycat Volume 1 by Natasha Allegri, Garrett Jackson, Madeleine Flores, Frank Gibson, Becky Dreistadt, Anissa Espinosa, Tait Howard, Ian McGinty, T. Zysk, Mad Rupert, Coleman Engle, Aimee Fleck, Pranas Naujokaitis [Jump]

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Reading Goals

Reading goal: 98/200 (8 new this post) Prose: 33/100 (24/33 short stories)
Nonfiction: 5/12
#ReadMyOwnDamnBooks: 36/100 (1 read this post)
#unofficialqueerafbookclub: 39/75 (4 new this post; Midday Moon, Robots Vs Fairies, The Tea Dragon Festival, Mooncakes)

Librarians in Spooky Media

[owlmoose]

Libraries are haunted.

Perhaps it's no surprise that libraries, which are often old buildings filled with old books, often get spooky stories attached to them. My own alma mater has such a legend, about the original campus library which now primarily houses classrooms and faculty offices. It's said to be haunted by the spirit of the college's founder (and, until recently, the building's namesake), M. Carey Thomas. I never saw her myself, but I have friends who claimed sightings of a mysterious figure who disappeared when they got too close. Such stories about libraries are so common that the flagship publication of the American Library Association even published a guide to them in 2015.

But I'm here today to talk about fictional libraries and librarians in dark places. This is of course not an exhaustive list, just the ones that came to mind for me, in some cases after jogging my memories with a little research. Feel free to share your own in comments!*

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