Sorry I’ve been MIA. I sort of fell off the world but I’m back today with actual energy and slightly less depression. YAY FOR LESS DEPRESSION!
Just dropping a few notes here to catch up on life, the universe and everything.
Some of you have asked if I’m making the audiobook for HOW TO BE OKAY WHEN NOTHING IS OKAY and I just finished recording it. Whoop! It included two days of me mispronouncing words that because I read them more than I hear them, including mispronouncing Maya Angelou’s last name because did you know it’s supposed to rhyme with “glow” and not “glue”? What else am I confidently mispronouncing? SO MANY THINGS.
If you’re a member of the Fantastic Strangelings Book Club check your email because I need to practice talking about my new book so I’m doing a sneak-peek zoom soon to practice reading and answering questions to try to shake off all of this anxiety before I actually go out on tour. I know most of you are non-judgmental friends so I can fuck up and you will not hate me. Much.
Speaking of Fantastic Strangelings…this months book pick is Superfan by Jenny Tinghui Zhang. Boybands. Obsession. Secrets. Loneliness. So good.
And if you’re a member of the Nightmares from Nowhere bookclub I’m sending you Trad Wife by Saratoga Schaefer. A trad-wife influencer allows a demon to knock her up and it gets even more nuts from there.
And if you need more than one book to get you through…here are a few new February releases I read and loved:
The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan– Historical fiction. Gay werewolves. Yes, please. I loved this book although I will tell you that it is bloody and very open-door, which isn’t that much of a surprise for gay werewolves.
The Glowing Hours by Leila Siddiqui. A mind-bending, revisionist gothic horror story about the fabled summer Mary Shelley began work on Frankenstein, as told by her Indian housemaid.
Evil Genius by Claire Oshetsky – An exuberant novel about a young woman’s quest to carve her own path—even if she needs to step over a few dead bodies along the way.
Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett – Magic, cats, bookstores…a cozy read.
Be Your Own Bestie by Misha Brown – A no-nonsense guide to changing the way you treat yourself.
I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy by Mychal Threets and Lorraine Nam – A lovely children’s book about embracing libraries and patrons everywhere.
Happy reading, my friends.
No way!! For sure, have always rhymed Angelou with glue (and said it that way to others😳).
I also thought it rhymed with glue. The more you know.
Also if I may recommend a book that also just released
“Apparently Sir Cameron Needs to Die” by Greer Stothers
is definitely just the right kind of weird for… Ummm.. weirdos like us
Are you telling me the musical RENT lead us astray when they rhymed “curry vindaloo” with “Maya Angelou”? I would have pronounced it wrong as well.
I’ve been mispronouncing Maya’s last name too, thanks for correcting me!!!!
Hi Jenny- I hope this isn’t overstepping, but this past year I’ve realized that my PPMD has been drastically helped by Pepcid AC and Claritin. I realize you are dealing with something different and you are extremely experienced and have tried all the things, but throwing it out there in case your depression could possibly be helped by lowering your histamine.