#i love interlibrary loan & SO CAN YOU!!! i haven't had an interlibrary loan book since 2020 when i decided to request. um.

[girderednerve]

my INTERLIBRARY LOAN on safety orange by anna watkins fisher came in!! yay!!!

here's the summary; if this sounds fun, you can read along via the open-access version: Safety Orange first emerged in the 1950s as a bureaucratic color standard in technical manuals and federal regulations in the United States. Today it is most visible in the contexts of terror, pandemic, and environmental alarm systems; traffic control; work safety; and mass incarceration. In recent decades, the color has become ubiquitous in American public life—a marker of the extreme poles of state oversight and abandonment, of capitalist excess and dereliction. Its unprecedented saturation encodes the tracking of those bodies, neighborhoods, and infrastructures judged as worthy of care—and those deemed dangerous and expendable. 

Here, Anna Watkins Fisher uses Safety Orange as an interpretive key for theorizing the uneven distribution of safety and care in twenty-first-century U.S. public life and for pondering what the color tells us about neoliberalism’s intensifying impact often hiding in plain sight in ordinary and commonplace phenomena.

[lakecountylibrary]

any recommendations for light/silly fantasy for someone who's read most of them? favourites are: finding home by hari conner, so this is ever after, emily wilde, the ruthless lady's guide to wizardry, legends and lattes, terry pratchett. also liked the very secrety society of irregular witches, the league of gentlewomen witches, tress of the emerald sea, some other f t lukens books, swordheart, fangs by sarah anderson. so anything with those vibes that are not one of those. I do want to read half a soul and psalm for the wild-built but I can't get them currently through my library.

Wow you were not kidding when you said you had read most of them! Many we would typically recommend are already in your list, but we DO have some more for you that hopefully you haven't read!

Oh, and real quick: You may have already done this, but if you haven't - check and see if your library has a purchase request or interlibrary loan service. Many libraries do, and often people don't know about it. They might be able to get you Half a Soul and Psalm for the Wild-Built if they know you're looking for them!

Now on to the recs:

Rachel says:

I have not read it yet, but I have heard great things about A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure by Angela Bell. And as a kid, I loved Bunnicula by James & Deborah Howe.

Abby says:

Try A Spell for Heartsickness by Alistair Reeves. The MC is a manic witch with a snarky corvid familiar, and they have to navigate setting up shop in a remote village that's harboring secrets and surrounded by some creepy woods.

Since you like FT Lukens I think you'd like this too.

Robin says:

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan - it's portal fantasy and the main character is incredibly genre aware. And sarcastic about it. The author is on tumblr and it shows (in a good way!)

Since you like T. Kingfisher, if you haven't continued on with Paladin's Grace yet it's very much in the vein of Swordheart so give that a look. You could also try A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking which is a bit different to the World of the White Rat books but still great!

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede was a formative read for me. Princess Cimorene is determined to avoid marriage so she arranges to get herself carried off by a dragon. It's a delight. Start with Dealing with Dragons.

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Hopefully there are a few there you haven't read yet and that you'll like! You can also check out our fantasy tag for all the fantasy recs we've made here over the years, light-hearted and otherwise!

[theoriginalnikegirl]

If I only get to bring one Animorphs book with me to get stranded on a desert island, I'm bringing Visser. that's been my answer since I first read Visser last year because it's an awesome read (the scene where Eva gloats to Edriss about how Marco will dance on her bones. The scene where Edriss slowly realizes all the kids are kids. Everything Marco. Etc.) but I've also just gone verrrry deep down @exigencelost Animorphs tag and there are some thoughts and levels to Visser I'd really like to explore in the relative peace of a desert island where I've limited distractions and no capitalism to participate in

If I get to bring 2, than 22 is also coming. As a child, I was only able to get 20 once and it was through interlibrary loan so I didn't tango much with the David trilogy. But now that I've had reliable access to 20 for a year and am therefore familiar with how the David trilogy goes down, I'd be happy to read, over and over again, Rachel's crisis of identity as she can't stop thinking about how when it came to violence, Jake said "get Rachel". Rachel bursting into real tears as the Animorphs pretend to be defeated by David and David smears ketchup on her shirt. Jake admitting he doesn't know what lines are anymore and Rachel hugging him. All of it.

3, 30. Yeah I fucking know you can take whatever you were gonna say about Marco having an Oedipus complex and go somewhere else with it. Enough of 31 is burned into my brain that I could compare those two books all the day long and as much as I love 31, 30 is the superior book so

4, 54. It was between 54 and 19. It was close, I PROMISE YOU. I'm sad I can't bring 19, but what can you do. It was choice between 19 and the first four chapters of 54 and I know where my heart lies.

5, 23 (let's pretend I haven't read 23 upwards of fifty times over the course of my life). 23 is by far the book I've read the most times because: at school or work, I've seen a name of someone I'm unfamiliar with and tried pronouncing it a couple ways in my head. Then I've thought "DeGroot, rhymes with boat" then I've thought about 23. Then I've thought about Tobias sitting next to Visser 3 and struggling not to cry as he learns that dying alien prince who gave him and his friends the power to morph and conscripted them into this war that's now quite literally the whole of Tobias's life was actually his *father*, who didn't want to abandon him, who's unwilling to say he loves him since he doesn't know him but he wanted to, Tobias pretending that meant nothing to him and Visser 3 saying "Elfangor's son *should* be a worthy adversary. He's a waste of a Yeerk." and getting chills literally over my entire body while thinking about all this and subsequently having a difficult time conversing normally with classmates/coworkers/customers until I got home and read 23.

The above has happened more than once. More than twice, even. Three times. It's happened three times, each time exactly how like that, going from rhyming somebody's name with boat to something funny happening to my throat.

I want to know other Fandalites lists and they must be ranked. Or not I'm not the boss of you. But tell me anyway