Reading List 2 of 2024

RIP, Iris Apfel (1921–2024), Jewish–American fashion designer;     Eleanor Collins (1919–2024), Canada’s First Lady of Jazz;     Gerry Conway (1947–2024), English musician;     Julia Wong Kcomt (1965–2024), Peruvian poet & novelist, of Chinese–Peruvian heritage;     Pigcasso (2016–2024), South African painter, who was a pig;     Pavel Zajíček (1951–2024), Czech poet and musician.

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Covers from 3.20.24 through 3.31.24                    

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I/we own 4 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 5 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 1 of the books.

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SFF:

1. At the Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard
2. Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones [1998]
3. The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
4. Fortune and Fate by Sharon Shinn [2008]

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter – read 112 works; 1,791,398 words
• Good Omens – read 3 works; 20,128 words
• Imperial Radch – read 3 works; 12,158 words

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Films & TV:

Spirited Away, directed by Hayao Miyazaki [2001]

• Blown Away ~ season 4
• Bridgerton ~ 2.04
• Loki ~ 2.03–2.04
• Project Runway ~ re-watched season 17
• Resident Alien ~ 1.03, 1.07–1.10; 2-01–2.10…

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Reading List 1 of 2024

RIP, N. Scott Momaday (1934–2024), FN–Kiowa writer & poet, who won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction;     Chita Rivera (1933–2024), American actress, singer, dancer;     Tawl Ross (1948–2024), American musician. 

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Covers from 1.15.24 through 2.28.24                    

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I/we own 4 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 7 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 5 of the books. Libraries outside of Baltimore County, via Inter-Library Loan, supplied the other 1 items.

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1. Culinary History of the Finger Lakes [NY] by Laura Winter Falk
2. Sisters In Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) influence on early American feminists by Sally Roesch Wagner
3. [Poetry] A Choreographer’s Cartography by Raman Mundair [2007]
4. [Poetry] Spring tide and Neap tide by Sorley MacLean [1985?]
5. [SFF] To Shape a Dragon’s Breath [Book 1 of Nampeshiweisit] by Moniquill Blackgoose {FN–Wampanoag}

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Sewing:

1. Creative Mending by Hikaru Noguchi
2. Darning by Hikaru Noguchi
3. Mending Life by Nina & Sonya Montenegro
4. Simple Hand Sewing by Laura Strutt

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Art & Design:

1. The Paintings of Charles Burchfield by Nannette Maciejunes and Michael D. Hall [1997]

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter – read 297 works; 5,685,721 words

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Films & TV:

1. Epic Train Journeys From Above ~ Outback Railway [AU]; Wilderness Railroad [CA]; Glacier Express [CH]; Darjeeling Himalayan [IN]; Copper Canyon Express [MX]; Bergensbanen [NO]
2. Feud: Capote vs. The Swans ~ 1.01
3. Great Estates of Scotland ~ Dumfries {Prince Charles}
4. Loki ~ 2.01–2.03
5. Project Runway ~ second half of season 17, seasons 18–20; season 16
6. The Holdovers, directed by Alexander Payne
7. Soul, directed by Pete Docter

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Creative Year in Review ~ 2023

hope; delight; ===surprise===            {orange}

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FIBER ARTS

• 9 months: Wove 77.5 pin loom squares of wool; most with plant-dyed yarn.
• 2 woven squares are conjoined (woven on top of each other).
• 8 wool plaits.   

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EMOTION-COLORWAYS

Began sorting 100ish of my woven squares by emotion-colorway, which process helped me discover 5 new combinations, at least 3 of which have been assigned placeholder names.

• -glas·aoa, 16; ~amelia~, 15
• “Great Lakes (dunes)”, 8
• citrus & delicious oranges overlap, 7
•  hazel·woods, 8; forest-y, 6; /trust yourself/, 5
• “veggies”, 4; heart·greens, 3

• Squares that seemed to be ‘sketches’ of my mood for a few days {as I worked on the shushan albums project}, 5
• 1 square for the month of Scorpio (“seasonal”)
• Squares that may denote as yet undiscovered colorways – 15, naturally dyed; 9, 11, variously dyed

• Squares that repeat elements, in 2 series ~ 5

• Squares (mostly synthetically dyed) set aside for #memade garment, likely a tabard/vest, an additional 52

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WARDROBE

• By fiber, Out: 15 garments, cotton (10), linen (2), wool (3). Reds, yellows, blues, purples; ocher, beiges, optic white. Too much meterage of the wrong greens, the wrong pinks.
• By fiber, In: 13 garments, linen (5), cotton (5), blended-fibers (3); and 1 woven wool band [from EU-NO]. Mostly greens (earthy), pinks & oranges, a bit of sky.

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SHUSHAN ALBUMS //formerly Family Albums :: The Atlas //

• main: 500ish photo prints, 1992–2022
• numerous essay-things, organized by an index [data viz]
• maps
• illustration(s)

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READING

• Read 103 books all the way through.                 (0.735x as many as 2022.)

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FANFIC – on AO3

• Harry Potter ~ Read 1,510 fics, 33.9 million words [99% of total]
• The Avengers (Marvel Movies) ~ Read 9 fics, 46,209 words
• Bridgerton (TV) ~ Read 1 fic, 77,115 words
• Good Omens ~ Read 4 fics, 162,673 words
• Star Wars Sequel Trilogy ~ Read 1 fic, 32,972 words
• Harry Potter crossover [Carry On] ~ Read 1 fic, 15,300 words

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POETRY

~Reading~

• Still in Aniibi’a 6: Added 31 poems by 22 poets in 2023.         Mostly women.                   Alexandra Grilikhes (Jan) – Robert Wrigley (Dec).                 Old favorites, 6; new-to-me, 16.

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~Writing~

• Wrote 2 poems.
• Worked on 1 poem.

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RIVER TIME

3/26, 5/21, (10/28).

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PLANT COMPANIONS & FRIENDS

• Pō ~ after their illness in Dec 2022, they rallied and eventually had 17, then 28, new leaves. But by spring, they’d taken sick again. They died in early May.
• Slyvori still doing well. (Coming up on 7 years together.)
• Ziggl still doing well. No winter flowers. (4 years in November.)
• Imippe doing well. (47 months.)
• Spouse’s succulents are doing well.
• Spouse’s peace lily has been ailing for months.
• This year, windowboxes [oxalis, grasses] are overwintering outside.

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HUMAN-SOCIAL: Self-isolating for entire year. Still masking whenever around people.

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SCHEDULING:             parts of 4 intervals        //I terminated the project in August//

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PHYSICAL HEALTH

• Spouse and I keep current on covid boosters.
• I got the shingles vaccine.

• Mid-Jan: quit wearing retainers.
• Mid-May: injured both of my feet (separately).

• Nutrition ~ The pandemic has not been helpful to either the variety of foods I eat, nor the amounts. So, I’ve begun tracking things. When I can consistently reach weekly goals, I intend to increase them. We’re not there, yet.
• Late Feb: 3 goals set – daily vitamin intake; daily calories of at least 1500; weekly of at least 10,500 calories.
• In 44 wks ~ wkly goal achieved 25/44 (57%), averaging 10,670 calories.
• Vitamins taken all 7 days, happened 20/44; averaging 6 days/wk.

• 4 Fever blister/cold sores in 2023.   
• [1 FB/CS in 2022]
• 4 Migraines in 2023: 3 were visual.  
• [6 Migraines in 2022]
• 11 so-called ½ Migraines.
• [10 so-called ½ Migraines in 2022]
• 0 Styes              [0 styes in 2022]

• “Standing & Walking” ~ 1420.1 hours total. Range (raw): 0.4 to 8 hours per day. Daily average, 3.89 hours. 
• B: 12 (59), 13.08 // P: 22 (11) 

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TRAVEL                          

Finger Lakes region, NY, 2x. (Jun, Jul)

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Reading List 12 of 2023

RIP, A. S. Byatt (1936–2023), British novelist and poet;          Mary Louise Cleave (1947–2023), American engineer and NASA astronaut;         Amp Fiddler (1958–2023), American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer;         Barbara Hotham Iglewski (1938–2023), American microbiologist;         Danutė Kvietkevičiūtė (1939–2023), Lithuanian textile designer;         Graziella Magherini (1927–2023), Italian psychiatrist;         Tom Smothers (1939–2023), American comedian, musician, actor;         Dale Spender (1943–2023), Australian feminist scholar and writer. 

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Covers from 12.4.23 through 12.30.23                  

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I/we own 3 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 6 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 16 of the books. Libraries outside of Baltimore County, via Inter-Library Loan, supplied the other 5 items.

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Poetry:

1. The Best American Poetry 2021, edited by Tracy K. Smith
2. The Best American Poetry 2022, edited by Matthew Zapruder
3. Above Ground by Clint Smith
4. Coloratura On A Silence Found In Many Expressive Systems by Alice Fulton
5. Dream Drawings by N. Scott Momaday [FN–Kiowa]
6. How to Fly (In 10,000 Easy Steps) by Barbara Kingsolver
7. The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón
8. Pale Colors in a Tall Field by Carl Phillips
9. Terrapin by Wendell Berry
10. The True Account of Myself as a Bird by Robert Wright
11. Whale Day by Billy Collins
12. Wound is the Origin of Wonder by Maya C. Popa

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Portraiture:

1. Calder’s Portraits: A New Language by Barbara Zabel
2. Mixed-Media Self-Portraits by Cate Coulacos Prato [2008]
3. The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History by James Hall
4. Self-Portraits by Ernst Rebel

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Art & Design:

1. American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe by Kathy Curry and Esther Adler
2. More is More is More: Today’s Maximalist Interiors by Carl Dellatore
3. Quilt Local by Heather Jones

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Miscellaneous:

1. The Age of Overwhelm by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
2. Offshore Lightning by Saito Nazuna
3. What Are People For? Essays by Wendell Berry [1990]

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter – read 195 works; 3,559,056 words

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Films & TV:

1. Naked Attraction ~ season 6 + “Happy Endings” episode
2. Project Runway ~ 17.01–17.08
3. Star Trek: Picard ~ 1.03, 1.04
4. Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig
5. Harry Potter 1, directed by Chris Columbus
6. Harry Potter 2, directed by Chris Columbus
7. Kung Fu Panda 3, directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson & Alessandro Carloni
8. Leo, directed by Robert Smigel, David Wachtenheim, Robert Marianetti

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Reading List 11 of 2023

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Covers from 11.11.23 through 11.30.23                              

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I/we own 3 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 5 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 3 of the books.

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Miscellaneous:

1. Boundary Layer: Exploring the genius between worlds by Kem Luther
2. Listening in the Dark: Women reclaiming the power of intuition by Amber Tamblyn
3. Nature’s Palette [Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours] by Princeton University Press
4. We Came in Peace: The story of man in space, edited by James Aswell, et al. [1969]
5. [poetry] The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of peace & renewal, edited by James Crews
6. [queer romance] Peter Cabot Gets Lost by Cat Sebastian

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter – read 88 works; 2,149,466 words
• Good Omens – read 1 work; 12,263 words

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Films & TV:

1. Naked Attraction ~ season 4
2. Across the Spider-verse, directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, et al. /// I really liked the first Spider-verse movie (which I saw 3x), but this one was a hot mess that I bailed on 80% through: not just visually exhausted, but emotionally as well///
3. Apollo 11, directed & edited by Todd Douglas Miller
4. Joy Ride, directed by Adele Lim /// both Spouse & I watched this one 2x ///
5. Squaring the Circle: The story of Hipgnosis, directed by Anton Corbijn, written by Trish D Chetty

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Reading List 10 of 2023

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Covers from 10.1.23 through 10.31.23                 

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I/we own 3 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 5 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 2 of the books.

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Photography:

1. Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography by Michelle Dunn Marsh
2. Sovereign: Photographs by Jocelyn Lee
3. What Could Be by David Hilliard

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Memoir & Biography:

1. Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York by Alexander Nemerov
2. The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The tragedy and glory of growing up by Evanna Lynch

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter – read 169 works; 3,229,568 words

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Films & TV:

1. Bridgerton ~ season 2
2. Great British Bake-Off ~ season 14
3. Naked Attraction ~ seasons 1–3
4. Sex Education ~ season 4
5. Elemental, directed by Peter Sohn

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Reading List 9 of 2023

Covers from 9.1.23 through 9.29.23                      

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I/we own 2 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 2 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 2 of the books. Libraries outside of Baltimore County, via Inter-Library Loan, supplied the other 1 items.

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First Nations:

1. Joe Feddersen: Vital Signs by Rebecca J. Dobkins
2. Project 562: Changing the way we see Native America by Matika Wilbur {FN–Swinomish & Tulalip}

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Miscellaneous:

1. Heartwood by Barbara Becker
2. Testament of Friendship: The story of Winifred Holtby by Vera Brittain [1981]

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• 2 fandoms ~ Harry Potter – read 208 works; 4,454,513 words // Good Omens –  read 3 works; 18,814 words //

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Films & TV:

1. Classical Albums: Queen – Night at the Opera [1975], directed & edited by Matthew Longfellow
2. Elemental, directed by Peter Sohn
3. Emma., directed by Autumn de Wilde

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Reading List 8 of 2023

RIP, Robbie Robertson (1943–2023), Canadian rocker & songwriter [one of Spouse’s favorites].   

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Covers from 8.1.23 through 8.31.23                      

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I/we own 6 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 2 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 10 of the books. Libraries outside of Baltimore County, via Inter-Library Loan, supplied the other 3 items.

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Art & Design:

1. Elizabeth Blackadder by National Galleries of Scotland, 2011
2. Emily Mason: The Light in Spring by David Ebony, et al.
3. Mackintosh Watercolours by Roger Billcliffe
4. The Paintings and Drawings of Clarence Major
5. Winifred Nicholson: Liberation of Colour by Jovan Nicholson

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Fashion:

1. 50 Contemporary Fashion Designers You Should Know by Doria Santlofer [2012]
2. Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715–2015 by Sharon Sadako Takeda, et al.
3. Sixties Fashion: from ‘less is more’ to youthquake by Jonathan Walford [2013]

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Poetry:

1. Be Holding by Ross Gay
2. Deluge by Leila Chatti
3. Normal Distance by Elisa Gabbert
4. We Hope This Reaches You in Time by Samantha King Holmes and r.h. Sin

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Miscellaneous:

1. Clarity: a photographic dive into Lake Tahoe’s remarkable water by Dylan Silver
2. In Transit: being non-binary in a world of dichotomies by Dianna E. Anderson
3. You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: 10 weeks in Birmingham that changed America by Paul Kix
4. [Fiction] The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
5. [Graphic novel] Why You’ll Never Find the One by Sarah Akinterinwa
6. [SFF] Servant Mage by Kate Elliott
7. [SFF] Translation State by Ann Leckie

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• 3 fandoms ~ Harry Potter – read 143 works; 4,600,282 words // Good Omens –  read 2 works; 115,632 words // Star Wars Sequel Trilogy – read 1 work; 33,000 words //

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Films & TV:

1. Baking Show: The Professionals, 7.01, 7.05–7.10
2. Sanditon, season 3

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Reading List 7 of 2023

RIP, Sinéad O’Connor (1966–2023), Irish singer & musician;      Minnie Bruce Pratt (1946–2023), American poet, essayist & lesbian activist;     Remigijus Valiulis (1958–2023), Lithuanian athlete: 1980 gold medalist sprinter;               Evelyn M. Witkin (1921–2023), American geneticist. 

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Covers from 7.2.23 through 7.30.23                      

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I/we own 2 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 6 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 4 of the books. Libraries outside of Baltimore County, via Inter-Library Loan, supplied the other 6 items.

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Art & Design:

1. Claire McCardell: Redefining Modernism by Kohle Yohannan & Nancy Nolf [1998]
2. New Mexico Artists by UNM Press [1952]

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Fashion:

1. Contemporary Menswear: A Global Guide to Independent Men’s Fashion by Steve Vogel, et al.
2. The Fashion Resource Book: Men by Robert Leach
3. The Fashion Resource Book: Research for Design by Robert Leach
4. [Video] The Quiet History of Adjustable Clothing [from a non-historian] by The Stitchery
5. [Video] Why Did Ladies Ride Side Saddle in the Regency? By Elizabeth Henderson

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Regency Romances:

1. An Offer from a Gentleman by Julia Quinn
2. Friday’s Child by Georgette Heyer
3. The Parfit Knight by Juliet Blyth [1986]
4. Sylvester or the Wicked Uncle by Georgette Heyer

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Miscellaneous:

1. The Age of Overwhelm by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
2. [SFF] The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
3. [SFF] Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto, illustrated by Ann Xu

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter  // read 94 works; 2,432,840 words

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Films & TV:

1. Nimona, directed by Nick Bruno & Troy Quane ///massively disappointing
2. Pan Am, 1.01
3. Bridgerton, season 2
4. Sanditon, seasons 1 & 2

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Reading List 6 of 2023

RIP, Frederick Birkhill (1951–2023); American artist in glass;     Françoise Gilot (1921–2023), French artist in watercolors and ceramics;     Ruth Schweikert (1965–2023), Swiss novelist;     Cynthia Weil (1940–2023), American songwriter;     George Winston (1949–2023), American pianist. 

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Covers from 6.2.23 through 6.30.23                      

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I/we own 1 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 14 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 10 of the books. Libraries outside of Baltimore County, via Inter-Library Loan, supplied the other 15 items.

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Art & Design:

1. The Complete Color Harmony, Pantone edition by Leatrice Eiseman
2. The Decorative Art of Léon Bakst by Arséne Alexandre [2^nd ed., 1970]
3. Dressing the Decades: 20^th century vintage style by Emmanuelle Dirix
4. Fashion: The 50 most influential fashion designers of all time by Bonnie English [2009]
5. Fashion Design for Kids by Kerri Quigley
6. The Fundamentals of Fashion Design by Richard Sorger & Jenny Udale [2006]
7. Sonia Delaunay: Art, Design and Fashion by Marta Ruiz del Árbol

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Fashion & Style [Videos]:

1. a Legally Blonde style analysis by ModernGurlz
2. analyzing the outfits in Clueless by ModernGurlz
3. ranking 10 different versions of Cinderella’s ballgown by ModernGurlz
4. how to build a closet you like by KaitiYoo
5. 3 easy outfits to try at home by Hannah Louise Poston
6. How to find your personal style by Hannah Louise Poston
7. How to match your wardrobe to your lifestyle by Hannah Louise Poston
8. This is why you feel frumpy … by Hannah Louise Poston

//I watched minor amts of 13 other videos by HLP. It turns out, watching someone lively and emotionally expressive talk on camera about several of my special interests, is, itself engaging. Who knew? HLP herself being an attractive redhead with pretty eyes was (occasionally) distracting in a pleasing way. I’m visually-oriented! //

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Sewing [videos by Angela Wolf]:

1. How to sew a French seam step-by-step
2. How to sew a pillowcase
3. How to sew a shirt

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Memoir & Biography:

1. A Visible Man by Edward Enninful
2. Jane Austen: Writing, society, politics by Thomas Keymer
3. Lee Miller and Roland Penrose: The green memories of desire by Katherine Slusher [2007]
4. The Natural Mother of the Child: A memoir of nonbinary parenthood by Krys Malcolm Belc
5. Some of My Lives: A scrapbook memoir by Rosamond Bernier
6. Uncomfortable Labels: My life as a gay autistic trans woman by Laura Kate Dale

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Music:

1. Beatles ’66: The revolutionary year by Steve Turner
2. Chicago Jazz: A cultural history, 1904–1930 by William Howland Kenney [1993]
3. Don’t Stop Believin’ by Jonathan Cain

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Photography (Fine Art):

1. Dior, The Legendary Images: Great photographers and Dior, edited by Florence Müller
2. Still Life by Irving Penn [2001]

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Romantic Fiction by Julia Quinn:

1. First Comes Scandal
2. The Viscount Who Loved Me
3. Romancing Mister Bridgerton
4. To Sir Phillip, With Love

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SFF:

1. About Time by Jodi Taylor
2. Five First Chances by Sarah Jost

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Fiction:

1. Longbourn by Jo Baker
2. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• The Avengers (Marvel Movies)  // read 7 works; 41,568 words

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TV:

1. Bridgerton, seasons 2 & 1
2. Never Have I Ever, season 4

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