Bibliotrek

These are some of my favorite blogs to read! I have split them into cat­e­gories for your con­ve­nience, and I have orga­nized the cat­e­gories alpha­bet­i­cally for my con­ve­nience. Win/win!

Fan­cy­pants Writer-Types

• K. Tem­pest Brad­ford edits and writes sci­ence fic­tion and fan­tasy; she also makes jew­elry, and she blogs about inter­sec­tions of crit­i­cal race the­ory and fem­i­nism as the Angry Black Woman (listed below under “ladyblogs”).
• Sarah Rees Bren­nan writes the YA fan­tasy tril­ogy of which 2009’s The Demon’s Lex­i­con is the first and 2010’s The Demon’s Covenant is the sec­ond. I like best her posts about female char­ac­ters and the meta-concerns of writing.
• John Scalzi is prac­ti­cally an inter­net insti­tu­tion; his blog is always inci­sive, and even if one doesn’t always agree with him, he’s worth reading.
• Mag­gie Stief­vater plays the bag­pipes and a few other instru­ments, draws/paints/sculpts, and has two great YA fan­tasy trilo­gies in the works: Lament and Bal­lad focus on homi­ci­dal faeries and the peo­ple who love them, and Shiver and Linger focus on were­wolf love. Her blog is fre­quently hilarious.
• Cath­erynne Valente is the author of Palimpsest (which is about a sex­u­ally trans­mit­ted city!); her blog is funny and thought-provoking.

His­tor­i­cal Geekery

• Bib­liodyssey posts images and illus­tra­tions from book and man­u­script col­lec­tions from all over the world.
• Two Nerdy His­tory Girls fea­ture his­tor­i­cal romance author Loretta Chase and his­tor­i­cal fic­tion author Susan Hol­loway Scott post­ing fas­ci­nat­ing lit­tle tid­bits of mate­r­ial his­tory from the 18^th and 19^th cen­tures. Lots of images and fun facts!

Lady­blogs

• The Angry Black Woman actu­ally fea­tures posts by three women, focus­ing on anti-racism and anti-sexism.
• The Pur­suit of Harpy­ness is a fem­i­nist group blog that I enjoy a lot because it’s writ­ten well about inter­est­ing top­ics from a vari­ety of perspectives.
• Tiger Beat­down’s Sady posts very funny and very smart thoughts on fem­i­nism. She’s the one that I took the term “lady­blog” from!

Web­comics, Pre­sented With­out Com­ment Because I Just Find Them Funny, Okay

• Dinosaur Comics by Ryan North
• Dove­cote Crest by Hai­ley Bachrach and Brid­get Under­wood (link goes to the first one, since it should be read in order)
• Hark, a Vagrant by Kate Beaton (my very favorite!)
• XKCD by Ran­dall Munroe