This week's sporkful

This is mostly a conclusion, with two clarifications. Even though one of the great things about catching up this year has been clearing out ...

I thought I was going to write about healthcare, but I am having a hard time concentrating on it.  My state of mind is kind of off and I am ...

As mentioned in the overview , there is blurring of the categories; that is especially true with immigration.  From movies , YA and graphic...

Finally, right? I know. When I was laid off in 2016, it was because my work was being outsourced to India (even though they said they were o...

As with the graphic novels, the extended time period led to a lot of books with no evident theme. I have broken these down into categories t...

This next experience was the least personal, but also the most discouraging. Back in June, I saw a flier about a Free Food Market: https://w...

Remember, the reading for this round mostly goes back to 2021. Over that time period, I came across a lot of graphic novels. I liked most of...

The things I wrote about last week were interesting for me, but not vital. There might be possible improvements to the systems, but they aff...

At times I have been ver y annoyed by YA books. I have tended to do better with Middle Grade books, even though YA is technically closer to...

To get caught up on where I am now, I should go back to where I was in February, when I quit my job. I was miserable, but I had this whole l...

Continuing with the theme of categories running together and boundaries being crossed, one potential issue with these lists is that they inc...

Things are kind of a lot, aren't they? I certainly have my moments of wanting to scream. I also wonder about the best use of my time, wh...

I have written before about the difficulty with titles, so for now I am calling it this and I will have the post titles show APAHM 2024, but...

One of the many reading lists I am working on is a long post-election one that I started right after Trump's inauguration in 2017. I wan...

Fairly recently, I saw a tweet about a new book, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide , by Steven W. Thr...

I am finally getting back to why it is important to make sure that we consider accessibility with all of our other issues. That includes pr...

It started with an article in Marie Claire: https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/country-music-black-women-roundtable/  I had been thinking a...