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Book Review: Root Rot, by Saskia Nislow

Cover of Root Rot, by Saskia Nislow, featuring what looks like a human circulatory system except composed of plants, roots, and vines, surrounded by fungi, worms, and other creepy-crawlies.

“After all, it’s so much easier and pleasanter to think that everything must be fine, and it’s one’s perceptions that are skewed, rather than the situation; surely, if something were wrong, one of The Adults would step in and fix it.”

Month of Joy: Sharing Pop Culture by Tansy Rayner Roberts

Something that has brought me a great deal of joy over the years — but particularly in 2017, a year that has us grasping for crumbs of joy among the embers and the schrapnel — is sharing pop culture with my kids. My eldest turned 12 last January. It hit me that I remembered exactly what I was reading at 12 — Stephen King’s IT, for one, along with a whole bunch of other adult texts. So… my policy on reading matter, always fairly casual, meant that I removed all filters and left R to it. My policy on other media shifted a bit too, especially when I realised that 12 is an awesome age to experience teen media that didn’t come along until I was… well. Older than 12.