One of the things I find the most useful and awesome about reading people's journals is reading their book logs. I am not a big fan of goodreads and I don't find amazon reviews to be helpful in general. I like to know what people I know think about books. and I was thinking maybe I'd go back to posting my own book log a bit more regularly. Prepare ( Read more... )

First! I would like to apologize to anyone who tried to access www.annagenoese.com or email me at anna@annagenoese.com in the last month -- there was a confusion with my hosting service, which has now been sorted. Please come email me and hire me to edit your awesome work (or just chit-chat, I am becoming a chit-chatter in my thirties ( Read more... )

So I have moved to Maryland, which I don't think I've mentioned here, and taken a very low-key day job at a youth development nonprofit. I am enjoying the job a whole ton, and not really enjoying Maryland very much (plus I am far away from my six-month-old nephew, which is hard). I've cut back a bit on my freelance work, although I still have space ( Read more... )

Hello, it has been forever. I mostly hang out at
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In the last few weeks, I've received more than my usual number of emails asking if I'll work on a manuscript from developmental editing to copyediting to proofreading. No editor should do that, folks. It should be three separate editors ( Read more... )

I will admit that The Great British Bake Off kind of frustrates me (along with the Irish one and the Austalian one... etc.) because I want to shake some of these people who don't know how baking soda works. I still find British enjoyable to watch, though, because it's a cooking competition show with hugs!

And watching it has led me to........ The ( Read more... )

Recently, an image has been floating around the parts of Tumblr where I hang out. It's Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and at the very bottom (ie, where the most important, life-giving thing is supposed to be) someone has drawn an extra piece of the triangle and added "WI-FI". Every time I see it, someone is saying they relate to that, and that they' ( Read more... )

Content notes for this entry: discussion of an eating disorder (restrictive), doctors, weight, fatness, confronting oppression.

Assumption: You are body positive and have read most of the materials linked here. Do not comment on this post to tell me that fat people are disgusting and going to die of heart disease or whatever. Keep your bullshit to ( Read more... )

Blah blah blah life. I still haven't seen Pacific Rim (but I want to), and at some point I'm going to write down my thoughts about the use of sexual assault to make a female character seem stronger and/or more desirable (short version: OH MY GOD STOP IT ( Read more... )

I wish I were better at writing about media. I usually end up getting distracted, or just rewatching what I want to write about, instead of finishing my blog posts-slash-essays.

I just read "Watson, I Need You: Thoughts on Elementary's First Season" by Abigail Nussbaum, whose thoughts about media I always enjoy even when I don't agree.

NB, ( Read more... )