quite relieved to discover that the library cloud lending error i was getting yesterday was due to an app outage and not my librarians deciding i needed to be cut off
February reading. I think The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet topped the list, but as should be evident I’m really enjoying the Dungeon Crawler Carl series too. And Cory Doctorow’s second Martin Hench novel was another one-night pageturner (one that, this time, I was smart enough not to begin reading when it was already past my bedtime).
The DOE “book banning hoax” press release claimed that challenged books are “age-inappropriate, sexually explicit, or obscene”. Only 13% of banned books in 2023–24 included “on the page” sexual scenes—but 36% featured PoC characters and 25% featured LGBTQ characters.