ohanditdidntgoGuess this is what I'm reading before I jump back into #TheLordOfTheRings in a week or two.
I've never read #TheRoadToWiganPier before, but it's been on my to-do for literal years.
Mike"The novice took a deep breath and thrust out a skinny arm. It was holding a small scroll.
'From the abbot . . . er, venerable one!'
'Most people call me Lu-Tze, lad. Or Sweeper. Until they get to know me better, some call me 'get out of the way,' said Lu-Tze, carefully wrapping up his tools. 'I've never been very venerable, except in cases of bad spelling.'"
- Terry Pratchett, The Thief of Time
"I don't care how many people they're paying off or mind-controlling, even eldritch abominations can't get a construction permit overnight in *this* city."
From The City We Became, N. K. Jemisin
Christopher Burton
#WhatImReading #SupremeCourt https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-jackson-criticism-conservatives-trump-rulings-976a16d91953f42426818add77c7e3f2
Justice Jackson chides colleagues over pro-Trump emergency orders
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered an attack on her conservative colleagues’ use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration. The court’s newest justice, Jackson delivered a lengthy assessment of roughly two dozen court orders issued last year that allowed President Donald Trump to put in place controversial policies on immigration, steep federal funding cuts and other topics, after lower courts ruled them likely illegal. While designed to be short-term, those orders have largely allowed Trump to move ahead — for now — with key parts of his sweeping agenda. Jackson spoke for nearly an hour on Monday at Yale Law School, which posted a video on Wednesday.
🛒 #WhatImReading https://apnews.com/article/walmart-great-value-packaging-food-c00bb765180bdd47d9fbadb0ed80cf92
Walmart revamps its Great Value brand to highlight nutritional content
Walmart is redesigning the packaging of its Great Value products to make them more appealing to customers and to help shoppers spot nutritional information more quickly. Great Value is Walmart’s biggest store brand and one of the largest food and consumer packaged goods labels in the U.S. The revamp announced on Wednesday comes as shoppers have increasingly treated private-label foods not as a stepdown from national brands, but more as an equivalent. A company executive says the new cartons, boxes, bags and other containers will start to appear on Walmart store shelves next month. He says the overhaul doesn't involve any changes to the products themselves.
🥤 #WhatImReading https://apnews.com/article/7eleven-convenience-store-closure-fuel-economy-fb1907af5336d0a17e6a82bdb0c97772
7-Eleven braces for a major pullback, planning 645 North American store closures
7-Eleven expects to close hundreds of its convenience stores this year. According to earnings filings published last week, 7-Eleven’s North American operator plans to close 645 stores in the 2026 fiscal year — outpacing the 205 locations it forecasts it will open during that same time. Seven & i Holdings, the Japan-based parent of the convenience chain, noted that these closures “include the conversion to wholesale fuel stores.” The company did not specify which locations could be impacted. But the latest cuts arrive as higher prices strain consumers worldwide.
🌬️ #WhatImReading https://apnews.com/article/super-typhoon-sinlaku-pacific-northern-mariana-islands-c91671827a1bf32b42f02b85471d951c
Typhoon left a trail of damage across the Northern Mariana Islands
A super typhoon in the Pacific Ocean flipped over cars and ripped away tin roofs on the remote Northern Mariana Islands. So far, there have been no reports of deaths. Authorities in the U.S. territory are just beginning to assess the damage left behind by Super Typhoon Sinlaku. It first hit the islands Tuesday night local time and continued with a barrage of fierce winds and relentless rains for hours on Wednesday. Power was out and many of the roads were impassible across Saipan, the largest of the Mariana Islands. The storm also battered the U.S. territory of Guam with tropical force winds and heavy rains.
Carlen VigoThe book THEY don't want you to read
Available on BN and Amazon
#magicalrealism #ya #indie #writers #whatimreading
Available on BN and Amazon
#magicalrealism #ya #indie #writers #whatimreading
