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Really fantastic book. I reference the first chapter constantly when describing technology as a system of practice. It'll take you an afternoon or two to finish but it will help clarify so much.

More light reading

This was a really good strange little memoir and also difficult for me to read personally because I feel like I'm reading what my life would have been like had I married a straight woman (and not a bi ace woman) and tried a whole lot longer to be a man

This is going to be sick, I can just tell

It's Genevieve's second book that I've never actually read! I'm on like page 10 so far

I'm super outside the target demographic being an adult and all but I was curious because it was raina telgemeier and scott flipping mccloud collabing on something

and it's basically what you'd expect: charming expressive art and cute storytelling combined with a really lucid description of a bunch of practical aspects of how to tell stories via comics, make mini zines, &c.

I liked it even if it did the ultra-cis thing of having a character introduce themselves as "I use they/them pronouns" and then have the character be indistinguishable from a cis boy in the rest of the narrative

This is frequently how I feel about vonnegut: he has an incredibly unique voice and is amazing at crafting sentences that hit just right.

But I also don't get a lot out of it. Women are almost always non-characters and I find it distracting. I see the cleverness in the setups but feel bored waiting for the punchlines, like I caught the magician setting up for the trick when I wasn't supposed to.

I don't regret reading this book but I also can't really imagine revisiting it.

The romance -> sudden conflict -> happy ending was a little too fast but it was cute!