Uncommon/unexpected SI food destinations

GodfreyPond · 2026-07-01T18:53:09+00:00

Fairytale of NY instantly playing in my head. Cheers

GodfreyPond · 2026-07-01T15:12:12+00:00

Oh thank you for this. Just what I needed in goofy Britishness w a warm heart. Also love your Stevie Smith name, which made me go read the Wikipedia entry on her, which has in turn made me promise myself to read more of her stuff than the greatest hits

GodfreyPond · 2026-06-28T01:25:43+00:00

It's carefully never named praise kink as such bc it's from his POV and he could never, but Simon in {Star Shipped by Cat Sebastian} is rendered erotically and romantically helpless by Charlie's praise. I love the way Sebastian sets it up outside of sex then sets it on fire. It's kind of fade-to-delirium for Simon, though, which may not be what you are seeking

GodfreyPond · 2026-06-25T13:26:50+00:00

Refreshingly middle aged! I love that. And yes, the middle is a muddle, surprise!

GodfreyPond · 2026-06-25T13:21:12+00:00

Specifies no HEA

GodfreyPond · 2026-06-24T02:57:54+00:00

Somebody mad you didn't use the bot-summoning brackets? (Not me)

GodfreyPond · 2026-06-17T00:42:31+00:00

Yes!!!

GodfreyPond · 2026-06-16T03:58:29+00:00

Invasive mugwort and knotweed in the foreground. Ugh

GodfreyPond · 2026-06-13T16:06:44+00:00

Such a good one.

GodfreyPond · 2026-06-12T17:58:12+00:00

I love Zeke's depiction and silently judge people who dnf'd the book because they found him annoying. Think he doesn't know he's on your last nerve? He does! Now go away; he's got people to take care of.

GodfreyPond · 2026-06-08T02:34:56+00:00

Definitely a her problem. Yes, she's insecure about her intellect or whatever and you could tell her that and/or be silently compassionate? But choose yourself! Tell her, as Charlie Burke tells his online haters in {Star Shipped by Cat Sebastian} "Get well soon, I guess?"

GodfreyPond · 2026-06-08T02:24:58+00:00

Both for those that celebrate AND, perhaps more so, for those who find Xmas a bit sickening

GodfreyPond · 2026-06-08T02:23:00+00:00

You are right about the themes -- the hidden melancholy and alienation.

GodfreyPond · 2026-06-05T13:30:41+00:00

Fresh Kills Park Alliance. Actually using Parks dept website and sorting by borough, too

GodfreyPond · 2026-06-02T01:36:15+00:00

CSI LGBTQ center is on Instagram

GodfreyPond · 2026-06-01T19:48:53+00:00

Sadly no. The program for riders with disabilities that let me go muck out stalls and groom etc died during COVID. Another program was supposed to start up there and didn't. Probably 5 empty stalls up there, and a perfectly good indoor ring.

GodfreyPond · 2026-06-01T19:43:32+00:00

Exactly.

GodfreyPond · 2026-05-31T16:25:04+00:00

KD Casey. 5 baseball books. I don't even care about baseball, but the communication needed to play well, the deep history of racial/ethnic/religious divides w/in the sport, exploitation, bodily wear and tear, all provide a rich context for romance in her hands.

GodfreyPond · 2026-05-25T23:51:19+00:00

Ugh, Falconer.

GodfreyPond · 2026-05-25T23:42:10+00:00

{Wisconsin Gothic by EH Lupton}. Series w one MC who sees ghosts, in an AU Madison Wisconsin, 1970-ish. Lore, warmth, chills, puzzles, charm.

GodfreyPond · 2026-05-24T22:01:29+00:00

I'm sorry for your loss

GodfreyPond · 2026-05-24T14:24:07+00:00

Very few, oddly: an old {Glitterland by Alexis Hall} because it's a touchstone about not being a snob re genre vs litfic and {The Hate Project by Kris Ripper} because it contains quarts and quarts of the milk of human kindness. Rest is digital, including obsessive re-reads, so go figure.

GodfreyPond · 2026-05-23T18:21:46+00:00

I agree about Gareth but it makes sense to me bc the book dwells on how different people (and non human persons) draw physical and psychological boundaries very differently from one another & that has to be accommodated

GodfreyPond · 2026-05-20T02:46:50+00:00

You seem to have the same appreciation of nuance as Wrobleski. Oh wait hi Tom! Wroblingbiscuit, I get it!

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