Zeph 📚🐿️ @zephasaurus_hex@booktoot.club

My favorite thing about high school was the introduction of summer reading lists. Looking back, I can't say I actually liked the specific books we were assigned, they haven't been essential to my thinking in any way, but I liked the *idea*.

So. let's do better. What would you consider some essential reading for your fellow booklovers here on Mastodon? Use the tag #SummerReadingList to share/discuss.

Theme - Still On My Mind.

What books *have* stuck with you and affected you long-term?

Now I'm looking at Sweet Valley Kids covers on an image search and *wow* these books are such a treasure. I think I'm going to start collecting them.

1 - Your first favorite book

So, the first book I really remember loving a lot...I don't actually know the name of. My sister threw it out the window of a car when we were fighting and I've never been able to find it again.

The next would be "Sweet Valley Kids #35 - Left Back." I still have this book, and it started off a love of Sweet Valley that lasted a loooooong time. TBH I still re-read them sometimes, including this one. It holds up.

July book posts!

It's not great-looking, but I had fun.

Join me if you want. :)

Text version: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WA4uD2QLbE97pvydY4DcZJOjKWLsnCCCKCHIadlB9ro/edit?usp=sharing

It's the weekend! I have had such a long week and I've been so burned out but now rest is here and I'm *so* happy.

I think I'm gonna make a book-themed one of those post-a-day things that go around sometimes for July. Good way to de-stress and get some fun-energy back.

Things like "First book you remember reading," etc.

Any suggestions for other prompts that should be on the list?

Really I just want DC to retcon The Killing Joke, just call it an alternate world or a what-if story. There's an interview with...I think Kevin Smith and Grant Morrison, but I'm not sure...where they interpret the end as Joker dying and therefore call it an Elseworlds.

Yes, that. Do that. Just make it official.

And let her become Oracle in her own new not-tied-to-Batman-and-Joker not-fridged way.

And stop, STOP, revisiting that fucking disaster of a comic. Please.

Listening to the first "Batgirl of Burnside" episode of "Superhero University." (Podcast I just learned about yesterday.)

That is my absolute favorite superhero series and I adore Barbara and Batgirl and Barbara *as* Batgirl but wow this is making me wish Oracle wasn't so entwined with The Killing Joke and that it could work without making me cringe.

Oracle is such a great character, such a better fit for her, definitely where she was meant to be. But UGH, TK-fucking-J.

Article about Leslie Feinberg's "Stone Butch Blues," next up on my reading list.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/opinion/sunday/the-best-book-for-2018-is-25-years-old.html

The book is available for free! Or to buy if you want it in print. Either way, here's a link.

http://www.lesliefeinberg.net/

This is one that was recommended to me years ago and I just kept forgetting. Excited to finally read it.

I know I've already said I would go to Ragnarok, I just really feel the need to reiterate that. XD

Just, look at this map key. Look at it. It's a thing of beauty.

These restaurants! Bap-O-Meat. Amateragu Italian. INANNA AND OUT BURGERS.

I just. I can't even.

Comic, I love you.

More serious comments later probably.

#WicDiv #WicDivClub

I also picked up "A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns" by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson while I was at the comic store today. Thinking when I finish it I might just leave it in the break room at work. XD

My co-workers are well-meaning and do a decent job, but some of them could use some help I think.

Yep, the Nancy Drew comic is good.

Kelly Thompson is one of my favorite writers and I pretty much knew she'd do a good job. But one thing I'm learning to really appreciate about her is the ability to change her style so much for different characters. It doesn't feel like a Kelly Thompson comic with Nancy Drew characters, it's 100% a Nancy Drew story and it feels like it belongs in that canon.

A *little* more romance than I'm looking for in my reading, but not in an off-putting way.

OMG the Hardy Boys are here too!? I either didn't know that or forgot.

You guys this comic is everything I could want it to be I'm so happy.

Woo, comic/bus day turned out really well! And the detours seem to have been for some kind of bike race, which was kind of cool to see since I've been wanting to start riding more.

Now I'm going to read the first issue of the Nancy Drew comic. I've been waiting *so long*. It's gonna be great, I'm sure.