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14 December 2024

I am currently on page 125 out of 269 and no doubt there will be different thoughts and feelings by the end, but this is what I don't want to forget: Amanda Jones is relatable. So when she tells us what it felt like to be attacked online by total strangers, I feel her pain. When she describes the (perfectly reasonable under the circumstances) anxiety, fear, depression, hopelessness, anguish, and anger that she endured because two men deliberately chose her to be the focus of a smear campaign, I am feeling it with her. This is what it is like to have someone whip up hate against you for political gain. This is what they can do to you, not because you have done anything to them except to speak out in defense of public libraries.

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2 January, 2025

That's where I stopped to write a paragraph and didn't pick up the book again u til I had to return it to the library because someone else wanted it. I hope they find it as engrossing as I did before I stopped. It's a wonderful book, so when I say "it's me, it's not the book" please know that I mean it. I expect there will be more books I will post, despite not finishing, since it doesn't look like I will be finishing much.
My library is starting an after dark silent reading group. I do not do well with assigned reading, so a conventional book club is right out. But maybe I'll manage to read 60 pages of something. It's not that I object to reading things with fewer pages, at all. It's that I am looking at a stack of new books I received for Christmas, and a couple thousand books on the shelves of our house, and the more than 1000 ebooks I have (bless the Gutenberg Project!) That's a lot of books I am not reading. I will at least put them on my Currently Reading shelf if I get started.

Library copy