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About Thistle

Queer, neurospicy, chronically longwinded oversharer. 40s; they/them. ✍️📷🐈📚🥾🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈😇💖🐍

You’re Invited, by Amanda Jayatissa

Posted on July 15, 2022 by Thistle

Amaya hasn’t spoken to her ex-boyfriend or ex-best-friend in five years, but when she sees they’ve suddenly gotten engaged, she knows she must stop the wedding at all costs. Book TW (contains spoilers so highlight to read): fatphobia, self-harm, BDSM, … Continue reading →

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Updated Goals for 2022

Posted on July 13, 2022 by Thistle

With my current 2022 goals mostly in shambles, I’ve decided to update them for the second half of 2022. Physical Health Complications, side effects, and new medical conditions made former goals unachievable in the time remaining, so I’ve scrapped them … Continue reading →

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Books on My Rest-of-2022 TBR Pile

Posted on July 11, 2022 by Thistle

Every year, I make a list of books to read or cull throughout that year, a list of book priorities, so to speak. They consist both of books that will be published during the year that I’m really looking forward … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – To Move or Not to Move

Posted on July 10, 2022 by Thistle

This is a decision that’s been weighing on my mind. The last time we moved back to Texas, I swore we would never leave again, but so much has changed and I’m struggling to determine the best course of action. … Continue reading →

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The Locked Room, by Elly Griffiths (audio)

Posted on July 7, 2022 by Thistle

As the UK enters its first lockdown in 2020, Ruth Galloway tries to unravel a mystery from her mother’s past while simultaneously teaching, homeschooling, and running a university department. DCI Nelson, meanwhile, finds his investigation into a string of suspicious … Continue reading →

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June 2022 in Review

Posted on July 4, 2022 by Thistle

Ugh June. Usually a fairly good month, after the oppression of May, but the unrelenting heat, stressful goodbyes, re-rise of covid, and horrific politics has made June probably the worst month of 2022. Oy. It’s been a monotonous haze of … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Stalker

Posted on July 3, 2022 by Thistle

Note: For the purposes of this post, I am lumping myself into the category of “woman” as I am afab and was socialized female. Women are gaslit from early childhood. We’re told that boys hurt you or make fun of … Continue reading →

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Tell Me Everything, by Erika Krouse (audio)

Posted on July 1, 2022 by Thistle

Subtitled: The Story of a Private Investigation Part memoir, part legal/true crime, Krouse details the work she did as a private detective on a landmark case involving sexual assault in the collegiate football arena. Over the course of several years, … Continue reading →

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Curfew, by Jayne Cowie

Posted on June 29, 2022 by Thistle

For fifteen years, women in Great Britain have been safe. Ever since the reforms of 2023, women have had equal pay, domestic work compensation, free and easy access to healthcare such as birth control and abortion, strict laws re: violence … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Silence(d)

Posted on June 26, 2022 by Thistle

I don’t have words right now. We are living in a nightmare. I’m looking toward the future, and for the first time in five years, I’m seriously considering moving again, out of Texas, possibly out of the US. I’m done. … Continue reading →

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