Signal boost: Roommate wanted, Somerville, Mass.

adrian_turtle's roommate is going to be moving out of their shared apartment, so she is looking for someone to sublet half of a roomy apartment in Winter Hill. Here's her post about the apartment, location, etc. Reply to her, not me: I can tell you she's a cool person, but that's about it.

Wednesday reading meme

What I'm reading now:

A Queer History of the United States, by Michael Bronski: Bronski interweaves specific LGBT-related history information with broader questions of sexuality, gender policing, and cultural change, such as the growth of cities, immigration, and ethnic identity. Still working on this, in part because I don't like traveling with library books.

Bloodchildren. This is my kindle book, an anthology of stories by the writers of color who received Octavia Butler scholarships to Clarion, plus one story by Butler and a couple of reminiscences about her. It's one story per writer, so a very mixed bag of style and theme, and some of them worked better (for me) than others.

What I've read recently:

Quite a bit, mostly borrowed from rysmiel and papersky while visiting Montreal.

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