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NGL, I do not get the "he has got to GROVEL" kink a lot of romance readers seem to have. (And I'm not sure they even realize it is a kink.)

So.

Apparently GR are going to be jerks about this and no longer allow ratings or reviews on web comics. BOO. Guess we can't recommend or discuss what we can't buy on the 'zon, eh? Guess we're no longer going to pretend that GR is a literary social media site instead of just a platform to drive more business over there?

Going to be revisiting a lot of comfort reads this year.

Tonsillectomy recovery is no joke.

End of ch. 7 and we finally get a brief mention of one category of people who were being ignored when discussing fast fashion and clothing: Fats. So it's like a 5 minute segment at best, but yes, we do tend to wear our clothing until it's dead, or we definitely keep it in circulation because our options are so much narrower than thinner people. The fatter you are, the less impact your clothing has.

This book makes me feel a little like an alien, and I have to remind myself to sub in any consumption versus just the clothing industry this focuses on. It's weird to hear that the average white person in the UK or the US wears their clothing 1-2x and gets rid of it. It's not a problem the Fats have so much, with way fewer options for clothing in the first place. My spouse wears things until they literally shred.

While looking through my audiobook choices, I realized I have enough written by black/AA authors and feature black characters or subject matter that I could likely spend all of February reading nothing but those. It seems like a timely "challenge" for next month. Time to get those read. Is anyone doing something similar?

JFC, he really is my brother. This is a nightmare.

Did not expect this was going to be triggering for me. How is her brother my brother?! ARRRRRGH.

It's criminal that a book on cryptids and cryptid tourism could be this damn boring.