Siobhan McDonough, Writer
Two weeks ago, I got in a car accident. It’s a weird, frightening, and kind of hilarious story that I’ll tell sometime far in the future. (Why are my best stories always ones that aren’t appropriate for public consumption?) Everyone was completely fine, except the cars. (Everyone was fine because everyone was wearing seatbelts! Please…
When I began this blog, I hoped to make interesting articles I’ve read a regular feature. Alas, nothing has been regular, and I’m backlogged about 9 months on thought-provoking articles. But I’m going to be trying to posting these things with minimal commentary, more often. Also, excuses to post unrelated photos as the cover images!…
(Longish note: I struggle with whether to include content warnings on my development posts. This post is largely about gun violence, including suicide. Suicide is something that can make me upset if I came across it unawares, so it’s something my instinctive reaction is to warn about. But for other people, other types of unpleasant…
6 book recommendations from this year so far: A Face Like Glass and The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge Wow. Recommended for anyone, except small children. Hardinge is perhaps the best children’s/young adult author I’ve ever read (there’s also Diana Wynne Jones. Tolkien if you put him in that category. Elizabeth Marie Pope if she’d written…