Banned Books Week started yesterday. To celebrate, I like to read at least one banned book during this annual celebration of reading. Banned Books Week, which the American Library Association started in 1982, celebrates the freedom to read. As a lifelong reader and booknerd, I support the free and open access to information and the …
Author: LAL
Earthling, female, geek, lawyer, sociologist, reader, poet, yoga practitioner, video gamer, movie watcher, traveler, explorer, hiker, blog writer, animal advocate, environmentalist, student, daughter, friend.
Thoughts on a Weird Year
This has been the weirdest of years. If tomorrow the news reported that aliens were invading, I'd probably shrug and keep going about my day. Alien invasion? That's a slow news day after a year filled with as much emotion as 2020. I've been thinking about the weirdness of 2020 quite a bit because I've …
My Review of The StoryGraph (Beta)
As a book nerd who's on numerous bookish email newsletters and in numerous bookish groups, I often hear the buzz about some new app or a new website, and usually not too long after whatever it was has launched. Most recently, people have been buzzing about the The StoryGraph. I don't always immediately check out …
Countdown To NaNoWriMo
Preparing for November and NaNoWriMo!
Diversifying My Reading
9 books by POC authors that I have read in 2020
First Ever MicroPuzzles Subscription Box
Where I open the first MicroPuzzles subscription box
Resetting Expectations (Or Why I’m Building A Blanket Fort)
I don't have any Okinawa adventure stories this week because COVID. Sadly, COVID seems to be the reason behind so many questions. Where are you going this weekend? Nowhere because COVID. What are you doing today? Nothing because COVID. And since COVID cases here in the Okinawa Prefecture have been rising, in respect to my …
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Rainy Day Miscellany
It's a rainy day here, and so I thought I'd share some of the random Japanese things.
Sea Glass Beach
Where I attempt to find Sea Glass Beach
Yōkoso! (Or Moving Abroad, Part 4)
After nearly two months, I finally moved into my new apartment.
