Bits and Bobs: Mostly Bookish Thoughts
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forestofgloryBits an bobs is my many short unrelated things make a post category. Feel free to comment any of the points without commenting on all of them.
*I forgot to say but the power came back on Monday afternoon last week, and has been on since!
*My library has Link+, the state wide ILL system, back! I have order a couple of things! Its very exciting!
*In other library news the new catalog seems to be having some difficultly with mulit-volume manga. I have been requesting that the library buy things recently, and they've bought basically everything I asked for. (My library is pretty great) One of these was the slice of life manga Barakamon. The library bought more volumes than I requested, which was nice, but then I tried put a hold on some of them and found out that the system won't let me. Also the online catalog currently doesn't distinguish between volumes -- so all the volumes I currently have check out or have holds on look the same. So that's a bit frustrating.
*My parents are traveling and having their floors done while they are gone. This means my brother, who lives with them has been over a lot. Which is nice. I like hang out with him and he's been helping out with childcare too. He'll be staying over a couple of night as well.
*Our Halloween was good! The air was not bad and we went trick-or-treating with the kid. In the end she decided to go as rainbow kitty astronaut and wore the hat with ears that I made.
*I have been reading some kidfic, fanfic where the characters take care of kids, and I have come to the conclusion that most of it is about the fantasy of having really good parents, and not about the reality or even the fantasy of being a parent. No one is ever up in the middle of the night covered in vomit, or spends half a hour talking a kid into leaving the house, or worries that they said the wrong things. Parents and children are all just pretty great all the time. I see why that's appealing, especially if one had rough childhood. Still I'm frustrated that I can't find stories about parenthood, especially motherhood, that are about that kind of thing that don't feel cheesy. Maybe I'm just too picky
*The other day some friend and I where chatting about why we keep books, and some one said "books are my friends" So this morning I looks through my shelves and asked myself "Is this book my friend?" And I got rid of a lot of books! And I kept a lot of books too, but I feel good about having them because they are friends!
*I forgot to say but the power came back on Monday afternoon last week, and has been on since!
*My library has Link+, the state wide ILL system, back! I have order a couple of things! Its very exciting!
*In other library news the new catalog seems to be having some difficultly with mulit-volume manga. I have been requesting that the library buy things recently, and they've bought basically everything I asked for. (My library is pretty great) One of these was the slice of life manga Barakamon. The library bought more volumes than I requested, which was nice, but then I tried put a hold on some of them and found out that the system won't let me. Also the online catalog currently doesn't distinguish between volumes -- so all the volumes I currently have check out or have holds on look the same. So that's a bit frustrating.
*My parents are traveling and having their floors done while they are gone. This means my brother, who lives with them has been over a lot. Which is nice. I like hang out with him and he's been helping out with childcare too. He'll be staying over a couple of night as well.
*Our Halloween was good! The air was not bad and we went trick-or-treating with the kid. In the end she decided to go as rainbow kitty astronaut and wore the hat with ears that I made.
*I have been reading some kidfic, fanfic where the characters take care of kids, and I have come to the conclusion that most of it is about the fantasy of having really good parents, and not about the reality or even the fantasy of being a parent. No one is ever up in the middle of the night covered in vomit, or spends half a hour talking a kid into leaving the house, or worries that they said the wrong things. Parents and children are all just pretty great all the time. I see why that's appealing, especially if one had rough childhood. Still I'm frustrated that I can't find stories about parenthood, especially motherhood, that are about that kind of thing that don't feel cheesy. Maybe I'm just too picky
*The other day some friend and I where chatting about why we keep books, and some one said "books are my friends" So this morning I looks through my shelves and asked myself "Is this book my friend?" And I got rid of a lot of books! And I kept a lot of books too, but I feel good about having them because they are friends!
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Date: 2019-11-05 07:25 pm (UTC)I think that's a pretty insightful summary, and also why it doesn't do much for me, though I don't hate it. (My parents were . . . fine? It's not a stage of my life I feel any particular pull to either relive or re-do.)
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Date: 2019-11-05 08:28 pm (UTC)Do y'all have that bo9m where the little girl dresses up like a princesses kitty mermaid?
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Date: 2019-11-05 09:13 pm (UTC)That sounds very plausible!
I do think there's some fic-with-kids being written out there that feels more true to the parental side of it, although it would not at all surprise me that it's a minority of fic-with-kids. Have you ready
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Date: 2019-11-06 06:30 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2019-11-06 06:33 pm (UTC)And that is a great icon! Good choice!
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Date: 2019-11-06 09:45 pm (UTC)I'm glad the power is back and the air was good enough for you to go trick-or-treating.
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Date: 2019-11-06 09:54 pm (UTC)https://www.amazon.com/Princess-Super-Kitty-Antoinette-Portis/dp/0061827258
Super cute.
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Date: 2019-11-07 05:32 pm (UTC)