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Name: Becky Stein Vandragt (she/her/they/them pronouns)
This week, we’re back with another comic con tip for you:
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Friends, I am beyond excited for this episode.
I genuinely love books. As a nerdy homeschooled kid, coming home with a stack of fresh reads from my very small local library was the highlight of my week every week. When I first moved to New York, new stories kept me company on the long commute to my boring muggle job. Now, as I live and work in this geeky community, books are a fast connection to the people I want to connect with and a way to support and share and work with incredible authors doing incredible things.
However, as a busy adult with a seemingly-endless todo list, I now read slowly. Like a couple books a year slowly. Which does not work for my original intention of this series: to share the very many books I hear about and get early copies of and want to tell you all about so those of you who read faster than me can enjoy them.
So, this is now a new series. A “To Be Read” series, where I share books I’d like to read and why I think they’ll be great and challenge you to beat me to it.
Starting with, A Nearly Normal Family by M.T. Edvardsson. Despite everything I just said outing myself as the world’s slowest reader, I couldn’t resists the Book of the Month club. (If you want to join me, this link lets you pick your first book for only $5). I’ve been subscribed for about a year, and almost every month I choose the true crime/thriller option. What can I say, I have a type.
A Nearly Normal Family is a legal thriller about a teen girl accused of murdering an older man. As the back cover explains:
Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him?
Stella’s father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect. Told in an unusual three-part structure, A Nearly Normal Family asks the questions: How well do you know your own children? How far would you go to protect them?
Any other suckers for a good crime thriller? Have you already read this book? Ideas for what I should think about reading next? Let’s chat in the comments.
We’re back with another Sartorial Geek of the Week!
Name: Chrissie Lea
This week’s self care tip is very polarizing for Liz and Jordan. One is super into it, and one is very against. How do you feel?
Hello, Sartorial Geeks!
I am so so excited to chat this week with my buddy Liana Kangas. Not only is Liana one of the most supportive geek girls I’ve had the pleasure of meeting, she is also a badass comics artist.
As has become tradition around here, we’ll start this fashion challenge recap post with a thank you note from us to you.
Our Sartorial Geek of the Week series is our favorite way to connect with the most important aspect of this community: YOU!
Name: Sarah Dylan Jensen
This week’s self care tip is something we’ve already hinted at many times throughout this mini series: