Recommend me something to read

[conuly]

Ideally something I can get through the NYPL or the Queens Public Library (I haven't yet re-upped my Brooklyn Public Library card. I ought to go do that this weekend or the week after.)

I suppose I should set a good example and rec something to all of you first. Lemme see....

I did recently enjoy both Long Live Evil and How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying!

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I laughed a bit more than this joke deserves

I just looked up this poem again, so here it is

Dutch museum to display 200-year-old condom probably made from sheep’s appendix featuring erotic etching of a nun and three clergymen

Riding With Strangers: California Hitchhikers in the 1970s

Japanese Scientists Develop Artificial Blood Compatible With All Blood Types

When People Hear Voices, But Only When They Want To

“They say that all women have the same apprehension”: Anxiety and Isolation in Seventeenth-Century Pregnancy (This historical woman's family seems to have been pretty callous, I gotta say)

Caring Across Distance, One Call at a Time

Amelia Earhart’s Reckless Final Flights

The true cost of prisons and jails is higher than many realize, researchers say

Trump voters call president's pardon of corrupt Virginia sheriff 'a terrific mistake'

Immigration official defends tactics against criticism of a heavy hand as arrests rise nationwide

FEMA staff baffled after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say

Flamethrower attack in Colorado leaves eight injured at Israeli hostages rally

Senator Dismisses Medicaid Cuts Killing People: ‘Well, We're All Going to Die'

Ukraine’s Warning to the World’s Other Military Forces

Comments

[fred_mouse]

Looking at my five star reads for the last however long:

• Passing Strange by Ellen Klage - mostly a story of a group of queer women with a fairly strong romance plot, with some fantastical elements, set in San Francisco in 1940.
• The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen - graphic novel, about fairy tales, family tales, and being a Vietnamese immigrant in USA. I suspect it gets shelved as YA.
• Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison - kind of cosy mystery, fantasy, with quite a lot of bureaucratic nonsense. This is book 2, but in a way that doesn't seem to matter (I bounced hard off book 1, The Goblin Emperor for being more politics than story). The resolution of the main mystery is a bit flat, but that is very much my experience with cosy mystery.
• The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw - bit cautious on recommending this, because it is a dark reinterpretation of some fairy tale tropes, and it is heavy on body horror and gore.
• Points of View: Liavek Stories by Patricia C Wrede, Pamela Dean - interwoven stories, individually written, shared world - all set in the same fantasy city.

The first two I own in physical copies so I don't have a feel for how easy they will be to find; I don't remember where I got the third (ebook); the last two are in our local ebook library so presumably accessible where you are.