few and far between. but how about the college entrance one? www.npr.org/2019/09/13/7...

oh that is fantastic news! well deserved. I've just started the Benefactors and I <love> it. 👏

oooooh she sounds amazing! tk u.

yes your stupid mental health walks and the way they stupidly annoyingly sometimes work have been known to get me out of the house.

you write really good and interesting things and I'm always curious about your take. + you share vulnerability in a way I find generous and not self-regarding. am very much here for more decades of you all around! happy upcoming birthday!

(this sounds like a flex I know!) but I just remembered I do read a bit of crime fiction in French, maybe 3-4 a year. simenon and jean christophe grangé and the like. they're lovely and predictable and I enjoy the specialist vocab. ok I'll stop commenting now....

otoh yes I would express genuine surprise but can't imagine either you or me trying to make anyone feel actively bad about it. missing out, sure! but not socially uncomfortable.

though I'm probably quite a bit more judgy with certain men who <would never> read fiction because it's <not true>.

tbf I rarely read crime fiction and the last romances were probably holiday cottage chicklit and way back when Georgette Heyer.

but if you're trying to understand this cultural moment with zero knowledge of SF (3rd-hand via Hollywood isn't sufficient) I think you're probably not doing your job.

ha! paging Dr Freud. I think this really must have been what my unconscious was trying to say. linux ftw indeed.

I mean they really are the best! don't know why I didn't think of putting them in MUCH earlier

also ppl swear by Iain McGilchrist.

:-) I really do <plan> to read it sometime....!

Yes the Lori Petty suddenly reduced to being a tearful abductee in her underwear is a massive low point.

It's not a subject I read in, though I've had Anil Seth's Being You in a pile for the past few years...