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I finished A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave this week. It's fascinating and heartbreaking, of course, and I just can't fathom how he was able to derive such strength from his experiences. I would have been broken a thousand times over.

And my goodness, does it ever make you cherish the gift (the right, dammit) of literacy.

Interested! Interested! I'm seriously considering joining Slack just for the famed FicRec Spreadsheet...

I'm currently listening to the 4 Minute Window podfic series, read by RevolutionaryJo, written by Speranza; it's Captain America and Bucky and lots of mush. I'll read basically anything, as long as it's being read out loud to me.

I second Two Bossy Dames! Also, for anyone who likes fanfiction, The Rec Center is really fun. They link to really interesting articles about fandom/fanfiction, and they recommend fanfiction from a lot of different fandoms.

Okay I just read Nicole's first email and my blood pressure is already rising.

"The good news is you can still use a card when you don’t have any money, they just keep hitting you with overdraft fees."

AAAAAHHHHHHH

ETA: Gonna keep editing this with my real-time reactions. Because you guys:

"If Jonathan Franzen can write books, so can we!" Oh Ali. Like a stopped clock, that one. " “This is my fight song. Take back my life song.” — Hillary Clinton" Ali quoting Machiavelli WHAT IS HAPPENING

Gracie recommending Bird by Bird. Classic. (Did anyone notice that Red was reading that on OITNB this season?)

"I can pay you in those umbrellas you buy on the street for $5 when you get caught in the rain"

I'm dead. Wipe me off the floor.

i based mine off the "One Line a Day" concept. i allot two or three lines in my notebook each day, and jot down a sentence (or two on especially good days) about what the high points of that day was. sometimes it's a long run-on sentence of all the fun things I did that day, sometimes it's just "lyanna mormot is is still the best GOT character ever". it doesn't improve writing skills but does make me reflect a bit before i go to bed (although i also do spend more time at work backtracking happy thoughts than i would like!)