Simon A Corvid (sometimes a bear)
@scrow1022.bsky.social
Writer, artist, seeker. Queer trans man. He/him.
Abolish ICE & police.
On Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi land.
Abolish ICE & police.
On Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi land.
Book mail! I have been so enjoying our bonkers November read, Victoria Holt's "On the Night of the Seventh Moon", thought I'd get "The Legend of the Seventh Virgin" as well. Loving these covers too.
(Will probably stop with these, the ones I read as a kid felt unsavory even then. Why push my luck?)
(Will probably stop with these, the ones I read as a kid felt unsavory even then. Why push my luck?)
November 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Book mail! I have been so enjoying our bonkers November read, Victoria Holt's "On the Night of the Seventh Moon", thought I'd get "The Legend of the Seventh Virgin" as well. Loving these covers too.
(Will probably stop with these, the ones I read as a kid felt unsavory even then. Why push my luck?)
(Will probably stop with these, the ones I read as a kid felt unsavory even then. Why push my luck?)
Sasha Lamb's "When the Angels Left the Old Country" - I love this book so much. Its language, queerness/transness, history, religion, immigration. I love the characters and how they relate to each other. I am trying to slow down & savor but also I want to keep reading. #ThursdayBookChat
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Sasha Lamb's "When the Angels Left the Old Country" - I love this book so much. Its language, queerness/transness, history, religion, immigration. I love the characters and how they relate to each other. I am trying to slow down & savor but also I want to keep reading. #ThursdayBookChat
Recently started Adam Hochschild's "Bury the Chains: Prophets & Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves" as part of the #AbolitionStories series. I realized I really had very little knowledge of the English end of things.
Also I've never been disappointed in his books.
#ThursdayBookChat
Also I've never been disappointed in his books.
#ThursdayBookChat
November 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Recently started Adam Hochschild's "Bury the Chains: Prophets & Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves" as part of the #AbolitionStories series. I realized I really had very little knowledge of the English end of things.
Also I've never been disappointed in his books.
#ThursdayBookChat
Also I've never been disappointed in his books.
#ThursdayBookChat
Ignoring everything to lie on the couch and read (and cry at) the beautiful and funny "Rules for Ghosting" by Shelly Jay Shore. Family & friendship & romance & grief & wonderfully queer.
November 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Ignoring everything to lie on the couch and read (and cry at) the beautiful and funny "Rules for Ghosting" by Shelly Jay Shore. Family & friendship & romance & grief & wonderfully queer.
We have been trying to live into the Halloween spirit this month, only somewhat successfully. But it's not too late! I am all set for whoever comes my way - candy for my neighbors, cake and hot tea for me, and books while I wait.
(books in next post and in alt-text)
(books in next post and in alt-text)
October 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
We have been trying to live into the Halloween spirit this month, only somewhat successfully. But it's not too late! I am all set for whoever comes my way - candy for my neighbors, cake and hot tea for me, and books while I wait.
(books in next post and in alt-text)
(books in next post and in alt-text)
Just finished Keezy Young's "Hello Sunshine".🔥😭♥️
Beautifully told and beautifully visioned.
#ThursdayBookChat
Beautifully told and beautifully visioned.
#ThursdayBookChat
October 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Just finished Keezy Young's "Hello Sunshine".🔥😭♥️
Beautifully told and beautifully visioned.
#ThursdayBookChat
Beautifully told and beautifully visioned.
#ThursdayBookChat
Bookmail!
From Raw Dog Screaming Press, Eden Royce's "Hollow Tongue" + David Sandner's "His Unburied Heart". Looking forward to Royce's book, I've read the Sandner before but happy to have a copy of it, esp. with the current excitement around Frankenstein (the titular heart is Percy Shelley's).
From Raw Dog Screaming Press, Eden Royce's "Hollow Tongue" + David Sandner's "His Unburied Heart". Looking forward to Royce's book, I've read the Sandner before but happy to have a copy of it, esp. with the current excitement around Frankenstein (the titular heart is Percy Shelley's).
October 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Bookmail!
From Raw Dog Screaming Press, Eden Royce's "Hollow Tongue" + David Sandner's "His Unburied Heart". Looking forward to Royce's book, I've read the Sandner before but happy to have a copy of it, esp. with the current excitement around Frankenstein (the titular heart is Percy Shelley's).
From Raw Dog Screaming Press, Eden Royce's "Hollow Tongue" + David Sandner's "His Unburied Heart". Looking forward to Royce's book, I've read the Sandner before but happy to have a copy of it, esp. with the current excitement around Frankenstein (the titular heart is Percy Shelley's).
Now this is the cover I would want! Alas, it's only for the Kindle version.
October 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Now this is the cover I would want! Alas, it's only for the Kindle version.
A crow feather to celebrate when I turned fifty.
October 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A crow feather to celebrate when I turned fifty.
I did not want to like "Meditations for Mortals" by Oliver Burkeman ("Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations & Make Time for What Counts"), and I wasn't much impressed with the intro. But then I got into the individual chapters and damn, there's a lot of good stuff. #ThursdayBookChat
October 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I did not want to like "Meditations for Mortals" by Oliver Burkeman ("Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations & Make Time for What Counts"), and I wasn't much impressed with the intro. But then I got into the individual chapters and damn, there's a lot of good stuff. #ThursdayBookChat
In another example of my reading choices being prescient, a couple of months ago I stocked up on past issues of The Funambulist ("Politics of Space & Bodies"). Issue #1? "Militarized Cities". #ThursdayBookChat
They are making all their issues open access! thefunambulist.net
They are making all their issues open access! thefunambulist.net
October 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
In another example of my reading choices being prescient, a couple of months ago I stocked up on past issues of The Funambulist ("Politics of Space & Bodies"). Issue #1? "Militarized Cities". #ThursdayBookChat
They are making all their issues open access! thefunambulist.net
They are making all their issues open access! thefunambulist.net
Have been waiting months to get this in paperback - "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" by Aaron Robertson. My eye was originally caught by the history of Albert Cleage Jr.'s Shrine of the Black Madonna, but it ranges much wider as well.
#ThursdayBookChat
#ThursdayBookChat
October 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Have been waiting months to get this in paperback - "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" by Aaron Robertson. My eye was originally caught by the history of Albert Cleage Jr.'s Shrine of the Black Madonna, but it ranges much wider as well.
#ThursdayBookChat
#ThursdayBookChat
Might be time for a new copy of Moby Dick.😢
September 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Might be time for a new copy of Moby Dick.😢
I only just realized I failed to attach the photo...
September 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I only just realized I failed to attach the photo...
A day late, but here's my #ThursdayBookChat contribution. My current non-fiction (titles in next posts + alt-text).
Of them all the Kendzior is the most depressing, bar none. Thankfully it's very readable otherwise I would have given up - why hurt my brain & my heart at the same time?
Of them all the Kendzior is the most depressing, bar none. Thankfully it's very readable otherwise I would have given up - why hurt my brain & my heart at the same time?
September 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
A day late, but here's my #ThursdayBookChat contribution. My current non-fiction (titles in next posts + alt-text).
Of them all the Kendzior is the most depressing, bar none. Thankfully it's very readable otherwise I would have given up - why hurt my brain & my heart at the same time?
Of them all the Kendzior is the most depressing, bar none. Thankfully it's very readable otherwise I would have given up - why hurt my brain & my heart at the same time?
Grateful today for so many bees, several kinds, in the sedum, so many the whole plant hums. Not that I could capture them on film! But I tried. (It seemed every time I took another photo they all moved under or between or to another cluster altogether.)
September 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Grateful today for so many bees, several kinds, in the sedum, so many the whole plant hums. Not that I could capture them on film! But I tried. (It seemed every time I took another photo they all moved under or between or to another cluster altogether.)
Grateful today that I finally (FINALLY) got all my postcards/prints/photos framed and hung for my little study area.
September 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Grateful today that I finally (FINALLY) got all my postcards/prints/photos framed and hung for my little study area.
Sitting on so much good stuff right now! But first I'm finishing Grady Hendrix's "How To Sell A Haunted House", so good and spooky. (Sibling conflict! Parental angst! Puppets and taxidermy! Eek!!! Almost too much for me.) #ThursdayBookChat
September 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Sitting on so much good stuff right now! But first I'm finishing Grady Hendrix's "How To Sell A Haunted House", so good and spooky. (Sibling conflict! Parental angst! Puppets and taxidermy! Eek!!! Almost too much for me.) #ThursdayBookChat
Book mail from England! Didn't know if I was gonna have to pay tariffs or not - I'd ordered them way before the Aug. 29 deadline but then it was delayed. But then the appeals court ruled those tariffs were no good...
Anyhoo, very excited to have these two beauties in my hands!
Anyhoo, very excited to have these two beauties in my hands!
September 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Book mail from England! Didn't know if I was gonna have to pay tariffs or not - I'd ordered them way before the Aug. 29 deadline but then it was delayed. But then the appeals court ruled those tariffs were no good...
Anyhoo, very excited to have these two beauties in my hands!
Anyhoo, very excited to have these two beauties in my hands!
Grateful today for sparrows in the grass! Who promptly flew away to take shelter under a car when I first stopped to photograph them. But they came back out when I stayed put, madly taking pictures all the while.
September 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Grateful today for sparrows in the grass! Who promptly flew away to take shelter under a car when I first stopped to photograph them. But they came back out when I stayed put, madly taking pictures all the while.
Just finished "How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster" by Muriel Leung. I've read some of her poetry and loved it - this is beautiful & moving & thought-provoking, and the kind of writing where you sit down for a minute and by the time you look up it's 50 pages later. #ThursdayBookChat
September 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Just finished "How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster" by Muriel Leung. I've read some of her poetry and loved it - this is beautiful & moving & thought-provoking, and the kind of writing where you sit down for a minute and by the time you look up it's 50 pages later. #ThursdayBookChat
August 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
August 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
On this anniversary of Katrina's landfall, two books come to mind.
Sarah M. Broom's "The Yellow House", a history of her family, New Orleans, and the aftereffects of Katrina.
"Building Power While the Lights Are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power", essays edited by Jimmy Dunson.
Sarah M. Broom's "The Yellow House", a history of her family, New Orleans, and the aftereffects of Katrina.
"Building Power While the Lights Are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power", essays edited by Jimmy Dunson.
August 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
On this anniversary of Katrina's landfall, two books come to mind.
Sarah M. Broom's "The Yellow House", a history of her family, New Orleans, and the aftereffects of Katrina.
"Building Power While the Lights Are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power", essays edited by Jimmy Dunson.
Sarah M. Broom's "The Yellow House", a history of her family, New Orleans, and the aftereffects of Katrina.
"Building Power While the Lights Are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power", essays edited by Jimmy Dunson.
"Brood" #AuGhost2025
No brooding for our ghostie, she's so soft and her to-be chicks so sweet. Don't know how she feels about it though.
No brooding for our ghostie, she's so soft and her to-be chicks so sweet. Don't know how she feels about it though.
August 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"Brood" #AuGhost2025
No brooding for our ghostie, she's so soft and her to-be chicks so sweet. Don't know how she feels about it though.
No brooding for our ghostie, she's so soft and her to-be chicks so sweet. Don't know how she feels about it though.