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Early bird gets the worm or in my case an empty pool! Fall 2022 semester has started and my prof has only given the vaguest plans of what we’re going through to be doing. May the odds be ever in your favor!

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Stuck in bed sick so I guess today is a reading day. Luckily, my new job is understanding and is postponing my start day

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"Fine line between good business and a fucking war crime," he said. "Ain't that a goddamn epitaph of capitalism"

-Sam J. Miller, Blackfish City

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Goodreads Monday #2: Red Clocks

Goodreads Monday is a weekly "challenge" started by Lauren's Page Turners, where you pick a random book off your TBR to highlight books that might get lost in the shuffle.

This week, I'm highlighting Red Clocks by Leni Zumas!

Five women. One question. What is a woman for?

In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom.

Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own, while also writing a biography of Eivør, a little-known 19th-century female polar explorer. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro's best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. And Gin is the gifted, forest-dwelling homeopath, or "mender," who brings all their fates together when she's arrested and put on trial in a frenzied modern-day witch hunt.

Oof. That's hitting a little close to home with the state of America, right? What do you think? Adding it to your TBR? Already on your TBR?