“Every scholar of pre-Civil War Black history confronts the problem of the archive. … Local, state, and federal archives hold only the scraps and shards of lives broken by design.”

Finally ending a ridiculous reading hiatus with: The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts by Gregg Hecimovich 📚

Currently reading: The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery 📚

Finished reading: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 📚❤️❤️❤️

So excited to start reading: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 📚

Currently reading: The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy 📚

Currently reading: When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro 📚

Crochet pothos hanging in a yogurt jar 🪴🧶

Currently reading: Persuasion by Jane Austen 📚

Currently reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚

We can’t have live plants at work (no bugs in the archives!) so I crocheted one and now can’t stop. Having them on the window sill makes them just a bit more real.🪴🧶

Currently reading: Recursion by Blake Crouch 📚

Finished reading: How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix 📚

Found this little owl at Sweet Pickle Books in New York last weekend. Seems a lifetime ago after the week we’ve had.

Finished reading: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 📚🔪🚂

Finished reading: Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie 📚

Finished reading: The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue 📚😷

Here are the books I finished reading in 2022.

Currently reading: The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue 📚

Finished reading: The Wonder by Emma Donoghue 📚🥄