Alex Adsett

“The arts cannot be simply left to those who can afford to do it. Arts jobs are real jobs." @AlboMP #nationalculturalpolicy

Struggling with the Booktopia vacuum? Here is a very *cool* and *useful* site that finds the nearest bookstore with the book you want: yourbookstore.io And shout out to @amplifybooks still thriving and ready to take your orders!

Also a sparkly moment when you find a book-to-be and fall in love - and you get to convince the author to work with you!

Greg Ugle is asking all Australians to stand with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and vote Yes for a Voice to Parliament. #yes23

@katydidinoz Happy belated Canada Day! I'm v jealous of the poutines!

If all my Aussies planning on wishing Americans Happy Fourth in 3 days choose not to wish me Happy Canada Day today, I'm going to be deeply offended, but you will never know it, you will only see an unbreakable veneer of courtesy and politeness, but trust the rage will be real

ummm is that THE @AlanBaxter appearing in The Midnight Society today?!?

We have NEWS! #alexadsettliterary

This Saturday!!!

@roch_town 15 years on, and now I'm angry on your and your friend's behalf. Gargh!

I'm still angry, 15 years later, at my friend's housemate who mansplained to her that she needed to use hotter water and more force when doing the washing up, instead of, you know, washing his stuff himself.

@katydidinoz @linliwan_ Urgh, *so* true! You're the worst, Cuthbert.

@alexadsett @linliwan_ Thwarting the both of you gives me perverse pleasure?

So in the final 6 months of my PhD, I stockpiled books from 'break-glass-in-case-of-emergency' authors, and in 6 weeks of post-PhD burnout, I've absolutely burned through them. So... hit me with recs! I read pretty much every genre there is, BUT

@linliwan_ @katydidinoz How has our combined peer pressure not made this happen for you already?

@katydidinoz @alexadsett i’m seconding this for the MILLIONTH time

@katydidinoz Done the Charlie Adharas yet?

Burnout brain needs support: I need stories that will carry me, narratives that will do the heavy lifting, I need aspects of positivity and complete endings. I need standalone, or loosely linked Please save cliffhangers, bleak and nihilism for another time. GO!

@katydidinoz The Binding is very gothic, but (imo) not bleak.