Shelf&Ladder

Ethereal authors... not artificial, not flesh and bone, but a secret third thing

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Images are from Pinterest

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Happy Disability Pride Month!

Cross the Line by Simone Soltani

If We Surive This by Raquel Marie

Bodyminds Reimagined: Disability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk

The Secret Summer Promise by Keah Brown

How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic ed by Rayna Rapp, Mara Mills, Faye Ginsburg, and Harris Kornstein

Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life by Melody Moezzi

Make You Mine This Christmas by Lizzie Huxley-Jones

Trans & Disabled: An Anthology of Identities and Experiences ed by Alex Iantaffi

Owning It: Our Disabled Childhoods in Our Own Words ed by Jen Campbell and Lucy and James Catchpole, illustrated by Sophie Kamlish

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5-07-2025

We don't read and write because it's cute. We read and write because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.

—John Keating, Dead Poets Society

[I haven't read these yet, but I did my best to check that they don’t have any major controversies. Also, two of the books have alternate titles listed, with the original titles shown below.]

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The Bell Jar. First US edition of Sylvia Plath’s semi-autobiographical novel. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with eight pen-and-ink drawings by Plath.

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Available on amazon, kobo, and bookshop.org

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That awkward scene? I’ll fix it later. That clunky line? Later. That one paragraph that makes me want to scream? Later.

Let the magic happen in revision.

Just get your ideas on the page.

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The flowers I got for my birthday match my curtains perfectly!!

08|07|2025

This day was quite chill I got some reading done, and hopefully before the end of the day I will finish it. I had to help my dad with a couple errands but that worked out fine since we spent the entire car ride singing along to silly songs. I also caught up via text with a couple of friends which wad really nice. In the past while I have been worse than usual with texting and keeping up with people, but it was nice to have a chat and update each other.

📖: Mostrologia Applicata curated by Barbascura x

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“Not all stories speak to all listeners, but all listeners can find a story that does, somewhere, sometime. In one form or another.” ― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea.

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Sometimes I won't go to the library for a while and then I'll remember that I have a library card and it's free and a little voice in my head will go:

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“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.” ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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me in every universe:

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a book dragon, to guard your pages...

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Books I’ve read since starting T, 2024

Oil on canvas

24 x 18 in.

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Whatcha reading? 👁️👁️📖

Little doodle inspired by a picture of my reading buddy Soba! 🖤