Romancing the Vote!

Oh, look, it's auction time! 

I am donating a few things to the Romancing the Vote auction, because people need to vote, dammit. I am not nearly as eloquent as many other donors, so will let them describe WHY. 

Anyway! Four knitted things:

• Custom slippers: The band Cozy Slippers made me want to knit cozy slippers. So I am. Would you like a pair? 
• Custom neon gradient shawl: I love this yarn, but I will never wear it. Will you? Tell me what styles you like, and I'll start knitting!
• Pastel gradient shawl: Will re-block this before mailing, get rid of the wrinkles. Champion procrastinator here, was working on submissions at the last possible minute, sorry. 
• Wildly variegated shawl: I love how the yarn is knitting up into the pattern. If you want to ruin the surprise, I've been posting pictures here.

Things that I did not offer, although I considered it:

• Another gradient shawl: took the picture before I read the "square photos, please" comment, and also very wrinkled. 
• A Musselburgh hat: Did not finish quite in time. 
• VoteRiders is an eBay charitable organization. Would people bid if I posted these there?

Anyway, I know everyone is really here for the cat pictures. Zoey is happy to oblige.

Anyway, I am cranky with the current news, work is stupid, and the weather is gorgeous, so I might call it a day and sit outside and spin. Celebrate Canada Day and the Tour de Fleece.

2023 Books

I did NOT read as much in late 2023 as I usually do. Have been knitting more than reading. Have also had a lot of DNF books, due to lack of attention span or obsession with knitting. Guessing that since work has been requiring a lot more attention I've had less attention to give to books. That has continued on to 2024, as it's February and my list is SHORT. Failed miserably at the Sealey Challenge, both times I tried. Maybe I should try for twice in 2024 - March and August. Maybe. Also need to organize my projects, clear out the ones that are finished or hibernating. I have more knitting goals than reading goals in 2024. Plus weaving. Really need to finish my sampler and start another. Anyway. Work calls, then I need to go for a titty panini. List: 

Prose Books Read in 2023

001. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Kate Beaton

002. Warbears, Margaret Atwood and Ken Steacy

003. Paws and Effect, Leighann Dobbs

004. Bright, Kiki Petrosino

005. Trampoline, Robert Gipe

006. Angel Catbird, Margaret Atwood, Johnnie Christmas, and Tamra Bonvillain

007. Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune

008. Weedeater, Robert Gipe

009. Probable Paws, Leighann Dobbs

010. Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons, Kris Newby

011. The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live, Danielle Dreilinger

012. The Henna Artist, Alka Joshi

013. Whisker of a Doubt, Leighann Dobbs

014. Laughter at the Academy, Seanan McGuire

015. Legends and Lattes, Travis Baldree

016. Cold Enough for Snow, Jessica Au

017. They Drown Our Daughters, Katrina Monroe

018. Pop, Robert Gipe

019. The Bruising of Qilwa, Naseem Jamnia

020. Curiosity Thrilled the Cat, Sofie Kelly

021. The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau's Code of Excellence, Frank Figliuzzi

022. The Last Garden in England, Julia Kelly

023. Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher

024. The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry, C.M. Waggoner

025. Malibu Rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid

026. Little Pieces of Me, Alison Hammer

027. It Won't Always Be Like This, Malaka Gharib

028. A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World's Most Misunderstood Bird, Rosemary Mosco

029. I Was Their American Dream, Malaka Gharib

030. The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dalila Harris

031. No One Is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood

032. Out There, Kate Folk

033. East of West, Vol 1-10, Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta

034. The Push, Ashley Audrain

035. A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske

036. Summer Sons, Lee Mandelo

037. Instructions for a Heatwave, Maggie O'Farrell

038. All Signs Point to Yes, G. Haron Davis, Cam Montgomery, and Adrianne White, eds.

039. A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark

040. West with Giraffes, Lynda Rutledge

041. Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster, Andrea Mosqueda

042. The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, Sam Kean

043. Home Bound:An Uprooted Daughter's Reflection on Belonging, Vanessa A. Bee

044. Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir

045. Spells & Stitches, Barbara Bretton

046. A Siege of Bitterns, Steve Burrows

047. Gender Queer: Maia Kobabe

048. The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste Into Wealth and Health, Lina Zeldovich

049. OMFG, BEES! Bees Are So Amazing and You're About to Find Out Why, Matt Kracht

050. 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis, US Navy

051. We Ride Upon Sticks, Quan Barry

052. A Pitying of Doves, Steve Burrows

053. A Cast of Falcons, Steve Burrows

054. Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects, Jonathan Balcombe

055. The Wife, Meg Wolitzer

056. Pussy, King of the Pirates, Kathy Acker

057. Never Saw Me Coming, Vera Kurian

058. The Man With Eight Pairs of Legs, Leslie Kirk Campbell

059. The Crying Book, Heather Christle

060. White People on Vacation, Alex Miller

061. The Survivalists, Kashana Cauley

062. The Fraud Squad, Kyla Zhao

063. The Last Beekeeper, Julie Carrick Dalton

064. Opening My Eyes Under Water, Ashley Woodfolk

065. Everyman, M. Shelly Conner

066. A New Race of Men From Heaven, Chaitali Sen

067. Bookworm, Robin Yeatman

068. All-Night Pharmacy, Ruth Madievsky

069. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, Annalee Newitz

070. Mrs. Caliban, Rachel Ingalls

071. The In-Betweens, Davon Loeb

072. The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained, Colin Dickey

073. Ladyparts, Deborah Copaken

074. A Shimmer of Hummingbirds, Steve Burrows

075. My Real Children, Jo Walton

076. Nightbitch, Rachel Yoder

077. Scion of the Fox, S.M. Beiko

078. The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer, Dean Jobb

079. Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, Deborah A. Miranda

080. Olga Dies Dreaming, Xochitl Gonzalez

081. The Boy with the Bookstore, Sarah Echavarre Smith

082. Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional, Isaac Fitzgerald

083. One True Loves, Taylor Jenkins Reid

084. The Blurry Years, Eleanor Kriseman

085. If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood, Gregg Olsen

086. Things We Do In the Dark, Jennifer Hillier

087. The Latinist, Mark Prins

089. Blood on the Tracks, Barbara Nickless

090. Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake, Alexis Hall

091. The Women Could Fly, Megan Giddings

092. A Cat's Tale: A Journey Through Feline History, Baba the Cat and Paul Koudounaris

093. Written in Dead Wax, Andrew Cartmel

094. The Run-Out Groove, Andrew Cartmel

095. Drugs and Other Things to do in Cleveland, Francis Elizabeth

Poetry Books Read in 2023

001. Blood Snow, dg nanouk okpik

002. Tanka and Me: Poems, Kaethe Schwehn

003. Poems for My People and Me, Monica Sekhmet Grant

004. The Kissing of Kissing, Hannah Emerson

005. White Bull, Elizabeth Hughey

006. Loose Strife, Quan Barry

007. Lives, CJ Evans

008. Rotura, José Angel Araguz

009. Build Yourself a Boat, Camonghne Felix

010. The Wanting Way, Adam Wolfond

011. Field Study, Chet'la Sebree

012. Team Photograph, Lauren Haldeman

013. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, Franny Choi

014. Calenday, Lauren Haldeman

015. Invasive Species, Marwa Helal

016. Thot, Chanté L. Reid

017. Revenge Body, Rachel Wiley

018. Unshuttered, Patricia Smith

019. Bluets, Maggie Nelson

020. Mistress, Chet'la Sebree

021. Witch Wife, Kiki Petrosino

022. Emergency Brake, Ruth Madievsky

023. I'm Always So Serious, Karisma Price

024. 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse, Karyna McGlynn

025. Fort Red Border, Kiki Petrosino

- SEALEY CHALLENGE -

026. Birds of the Cuyahoga, 2022 Edith Chase Poetry Reading

027. American Mastodon, Brad Ricca

028. Alive at the End of the World, Saeed Jones

029. Freedom Knows My Name, Kelly Harris-DeBarry

030. Studies of Familiar Birds, Carrie Green

031. Take Me To the Water, Irene Vásquez

032. Hush, Nikki Ummel

032. Birds Don't Fly for Pleasure, Táíwò Hassan

033. The Alpinist Searches Lonely Places, Kyle Vaughn

- SEALEY SEPTEMBER DO-OVER -

034. Against Which, Ross Gay

035. The Girl with Bees in Her Hair, Eleanor Rand Wilner

036. Urbanshee, Siaara Freeman

- HAHAHAHAHA LIFE SAYS NO SEALEY THIS YEAR, IT'S ALMOST NOVEMBER 

2022 Books

Zoey is number one:

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(She is helping me work today, and stood on the keyboard.) 

Anyway, it's 2023. Somehow. Read a decent bit in 2022. Still have a TONNE of library books to read in 2023, and my purchased TBR stacks are still enormous. 

Prose Books Read in 2022

001. Flash Fire, T.J. Klune

002. The House in the Cerulean Sea, T.J. Klune

003. Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America, Michael Ruhlman

004. My Monticello, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

005. Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

006. The Northern Reach, W. S. Winslow

007. Big Sex Little Death, Susie Bright

008. Meet Cute Diary, Emery Lee

009. Elder Race, Adrian Tchaikovsky

010. Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases, Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman, eds.

011. Light Years From Home, Mike Chen

012. Bird Brother: A Falconer's Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife, Rodney Stotts with Kate Pipkin

013. Anatomy: A Love Story, Dana Schwartz

014. The Chosen One, Echo Brown

015. Shoutin' In the Fire: An American Epistle, Danté Stewart

016. Cherish Farrah, Bethany C. Morrow

017. Somebody's Daughter, Ashley Ford

018. Period. End of Sentence: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice, Anita Diamant

019. Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s, Kathleen M. Blee

020. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question, Michael Schur

021. Meet Me in Another Life, Catriona Silvey

022. The Cold Blue Blood, David Handler

023. Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness: Kristen Radtke

024. Intimacies, Katie Kitamura

025. Casting Spells, Barbara Bretton

026. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution, Elie Mystal

027. Imagine Wanting Only This, Kristen Radtke

028. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, Axie Oh

029. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Kim Fu

030. Don't Breathe a Word, Jordyn Taylor

031. Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School, Kendra James

032. Rosalie Lightning, Tom Hart

033. Firestorm, Nevada Barr

034. Track of the Cat, Nevada Barr

035. A Superior Death, Nevada Barr

036. Ill Wind, Nevada Barr

037. A Face Like Glass, Frances Hardinge

038. Carry Me Home, Janet Fox

039. Yonder, Jabari Asim

040. Bonds of Brass, Emily Skrutskie

041. Calamities, Renee Gladman

042. D (A Tale of Two Worlds), Michel Faber

043. Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

044. Insomnia, Sarah Pinborough

045. Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, Rivka Galchen

046. Razorblade Tears, S.A. Cosby

047. Cyber Mage, Saad Z. Hossain

048. Dead Collections, Isaac Fellman

049. Sharks in the Time of Saviors, Kawai Strong Washburn

050. Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl, Jonathan C. Slaght

051. Donut Fall in Love, Jackie Lau

052. Spear, Nicola Griffith

053. Dear Damage, Ashley Marie Farmer

054. Forging a Nightmare, Patricia A. Jackson

055. D'Vaughn & Kris Plan a Wedding, Chencia C. Higgins

056. The Wolf and the Woodsman, Ava Reid

057. The Last Graduate, Naomi Novik

058. Eleutheria, Allegra Hyde

059. The Taking of Jake Livingston, Ryan Douglass

060. The Merciful Crow, Margaret Owen

061. Where the World Ends, Geraldine McCaughrean

062. Witchlings, Claribel A. Ortega

063. Feral Creatures, Kira Jane Buxton

064. Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind, Kermit Pattison

065. The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past, Meave Leakey

066. Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land, Toni Jensen

067. Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be, Nichole Perkins

068. Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse

069. Handmade: A Scientist's Search for Meaning Through Making, Anna Ploszajski

070. Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them, Mary Cappello

071. Nightcrawling, Leila Mottley

072. Utopia Avenue, David Mitchell

073. Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug, Augustine Sedgewick

074. Crier's War, Nina Varela

075. Iron Heart, Nina Varela

076. We Are Not Broken, George M Johnson

077. Battle of the Bands, Lauren Giraldi and Eric Smith, eds.

078. The Self-Made Widow, Fabian Nicieza

079. So Many Beginnings, Bethany C. Morrow

080. The Relentless Moon, Mary Robinette Kowal

081. The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd

082. The Innocence of the Devil, Nasal El Saadawi

083. Stormsong, C.L. Polk

084. When We Were Mermaids, Barbara O'Neal

085. The Many Meanings of Meilan, Andrea Wang

086. Laced with Magic, Barbara Bretton

087. Ghostly Paws, Leighann Dobbs

088. Spun by Sorcery, Barbara Bretton

089. Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, Jennifer Finney Boylan

090. These Toxic Things, Rachel Howzell Hall

091. Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe, Keith O'Brien

092. Within These Wicked Walls, Lauren Blackwood

093. The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina — Separating the Myth from the Medicine, Jen Gunter, MD

094. The Taste of Sugar, Marisel Vera

095. The Legend of Auntie Po, Shing Yin Khor

096. The Donut Trap, Julie Tieu

097. Mother Daughter Widow Wife, Robin Wasserman

098. She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan

099. Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood, Frederick Joseph

100. Kismet, Amina Akhtar

101. Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All, Laura Bates

102. The Knockout Queen, Rufi Thorpe

103. Book Lovers, Emily Henry

104. Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs, Paul Koudounaris

105. Sweetie Baby Cookie Honey, Freddie Gershon

106. Hither, Page, Cat Sebastian

107. Telling, Marilyn Reynolds

108. Hopeless, Maine (1 & 2), Tom & Nimue Brown

109.# FashionVictim, Amina Akhtar

110. Big Hard Sex Criminals, Vols. 1-3, Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky

111. The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui

112. One Woman's Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WAC, Charity Adams Earley

113. The Dawnhounds, Sasha Stronach

114. A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers

115. Comfort Me with Apples, Catherynne Valente

116. A Black Women's History of the United States, Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross

117. A Man and His Cat, Vols 1-6, Umi Sakurai

118. The Great Offshore Grounds, Vanessa Veselka

119. Below, Laurel Hightower

120. African Europeans, Olivette Otele

121. A Spindle Splintered, Alix E. Harrow

122. Writers & Lovers, Lily King

123. Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History, Jori Lewis

124. Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means To Be Alive, Carl Zimmer

125. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers

126. Fiebre Tropical, Juliana Delgado Lopera

127. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, Tiya Miles

128. What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher

129. Set My Heart To Five, Simon Stephenson

130. Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield, Friends of the Land, and the Rise of Sustainable Agriculture, Anneliese Abbott

131. Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

132. Number One Fan, Meg Elison

133. If This Gets Out, Sophie Gonzales & Cale Dietrich

134. The Dew Breaker, Edwidge Danticat

135. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, Ruth Ben-Ghiat

136. Root Magic, Eden Royce

137. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, Alice Wong

138. The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine, Lindsey Fitzharris

139. The Wicked and the Divine, Vols 1-9, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

140. Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk

141. The Forest of Stolen Girls, June Hur

142. One True Loves, Elise Bryant

143. The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik

144. How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing, KC Davis, LPC

145. Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, Talia Lavin

146. The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow

147. We Were Witches, Ariel Gore

148. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, Katherine May

149. Love Times Infinity, Lane Clarke

150. She and Her Cat, Makoto Shinkai and Naruki Nagakawa, Ginny Tapley Takemori, trans

151. A Spirited Tail, Leighann Dobbs

152. Lost and Found, Kathryn Schulz

153. Crooked House, Agatha Christie

154. We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and Half a Century of Silence, Becky Cooper

155. Hidden Pictures, Jason Rekulak

156. Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell

157. The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses, Paul Koudounaris

158. Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us, Paul Koudounaris

159. Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters

160. Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's, Tiffany Midge

161. Black Birds In the Sky: The Story of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Brandy Colbert

162. A Mew to a Kill, Leighann Dobbs

163. Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm, Laura Warrell

164. The Very Nice Box, Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman

Poetry Books Read in 2022

001. Calling a Wolf a Wolf, Kaveh Akbar

002. Dreaming of You, Melissa Lozada-Oliva

003. Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry, John Murillo

004. Little Girl Blue, Sequoia Maner

005. Against Heaven, Kemi Alabi

006. The Rootwork Stretched, mant¿s

007. The Odyssey, Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

008. A Nail the Evening Hangs On, Monica Sok

009. Body Facts, Joey S. Kim

010. Rare Birds, Shelley Wong

011. Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens, Corey Van Landingham

012. Imago, Dei, Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose

013. Can You Sign My Tentacle? Brandon O'Brien

014. All the Gay Saints, Kayleb Rae Candrilli

015. Nightingale, Paisley Rekdal

016. Sixteen Rabbits, Maryan Nagy Captan

017. Space Struck, Paige Lewis

018. Shutter, Taylor Byas

019. A mouthful of sky, Anu Mahadev

020. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head, Warsan Shire

021. All the Stars Aflame, Malik Abduh

022. 28,065 Nights, Katie Manning

023. Latch, Jen Stewart Fueston

024. Rare Encounters with Sea Beasts and Other Divine Phenomena, Nick Gregorio

025. Heaven Is All Goodbyes, Tongo Eisen-Martin

026. Blood on the Fog, Tongo Eisen-Martin

027. Nothing but Skin, Quartez Harris

028. Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong

029. We Made It to School Alive, Quartez Harris

030. Time Is a Mother, Ocean Vuong

031. The January Children, Safia Elhillo

032. Nothing Burns as Bright as You, Ashley Woodfolk

033. Whereas, Layli Long Soldier

034. Living Nations, Living Words, Joy Harjo, ed.

035. More Salt Than Diamond, Aline Mello

036. Eat Or We Both Starve, Victoria Kennefick

037. City Eclogue, Ed Roberson

038. The Familiar Wild: On Dogs & Poetry, Ruth Awad & Rachel Mennies, eds.

039. C+nto & Othered Poems, Joelle Taylor

-- SEALEY CHALLENGE --

040. The Colored Page, Matthew E. Henry

041. Every Song a Vengeance, Chloe N Clark

042. Our Gods Are Hungry for Elegies, Honora Ankong

043. Letters In a Bruised Cosmos, Liz Howard

044. The Wet Hex, Sun Yung Shin

045. Each One a Furnace, Tolu Oloruntoba

046. Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie

047. Black Under, Ashanti Anderson

048. Set the Garden on Fire, Chen Chen

049. Hallelujah Science, Kelli Stevens Kane

050. Patient., Bettina Judd

051. Sick, Jody Chan

052. Two Brown Dots, Danni Quintos

053. The Tradition, Jericho Brown

054. Burn Down Your House, Angelique Zobitz

055. The Bitter Seasons' Whip, Lee Yuk Sa, Seyko Nam Haines, translator

056. Prelude, Brynne Rebele-Henry

057. Hex & Howl, Simone Muench and Jackie K White

058. Wild Invocations, Ysabel Y González

059. Unbelonging, Gayatri Sethi

060. Concentrate, Courtney Faye Taylor

061. Miedo al Olvido: Poems from an Uprooted Girl, Ana Hurtado

062. Lace & Pyrite, Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil

063. Exercise in Desire, Francesca Kritikos

064. Sweetbitter, Stacey Balkun

065. Department of Elegy, Mary Biddinger

066. Groundcover, Molly Kugel

067. Rat Queen, Katie Jean Shinkle

068. Head of a Gorgon, Raegen Pietrucha

069. Paring, Travis Chi Wing Lau

070. The Autobiography of Absence, Ephraim Nehemiah

-- SEPTEMBER --

071. To See the Earth Before the End of the World, Ed Roberson

072. The Venus Hottentot, Elizabeth Alexander

073. Loom, Sarah Gridley

074. Embodied: An Intersectional Feminist Comics Poetry Anthology, Wendy & Tyler Chin-Tanner, eds

075. Pebble Swing, Isabella Wang

076. All Our Wild Wonder, Sarah Kay

077. Goldenrod, Maggie Smith

078. Ask the Brindled, No‘u Revilla

079. Set to Music a Wildfire, Ruth Awad

080. Counting Descent, Clint Smith

081. Asked What Has Changed, Ed Roberson

082. The Hurting Kind, Ada Limón

083. Tryst, Angie Estes

084. Circa, Hannah Zeavin

085. Return Flight, Jennifer Huang

086. Hot With the Bad Things, Lucia LoTempio

087. Casual Conversation, Renia White

088. Night Is a Sharkskin Drum, Haunani-Kay Trask

089. Light in the Crevice Never Seen, Haunani-Kay Trask

090. Poor Anima, Khaty Xiong

091. Cannibal, Safiya Sinclair

092. The Symmetry of Fish, Su Cho

093. Relinquenda, Alexandra Lytton Regaldo

094. Intimacies, Received, Taneum Bambrick

095. Girls That Never Die, Safia Elhillo

096. Harbinger, Shelley Puhak

097. The Lost Words, Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris (ill.)

098. The Lost Spells, Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris

099. Pili's Wall, Philip Levine

100. Golden Ax, Rio Cortez

101. Bluest Nude, Ama Codjoe

102. Extinction Theory, Kien Lam

103. Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes, Nicky Beer

104. Little Big Bully, Heid E. Erdrich

105. The Octopus Game, Nicky Beer

106. Boneshepherds, Patrick Rosal

2021 Books

2021 was an interesting year. (These are Interesting Times.) I read enough poetry that I started keeping a separate list. I might have a few in the wrong places, but hey, they're on a list.

Anyway, I have read 3(?) books in 2022, so I should post this and move on. And maybe someday I will finish some of my draft posts. And clear out my knitting/spinning projects. I should probably just give up on tagging/tracking yardage, as I still have things from 2020 to deal with. Possibly 2019. Blah. Obviously I like making things more than I like doing data entry.

Prose Books Read in 2021

001. King and the Dragonflies, Kacen Callender

002. The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman

003. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, Ijeoma Oluo

004. The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna, Juliet Grames

005. War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi

006. The Extraordinaries, TJ Klune

007. The Dragon, the Giant, the Women, Wayétu Moore

008. Holding, Graham Norton

009. The Leftovers, Tom Perrotta

010. Zealot, Reza Aslan

011. Memorial Drive, Natasha Trethewey

012. Likes, Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum

013. Kings of the Wyld, Nicholas Eames

014. Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver

015. Red, White, & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston

016. The Gospel of Loki, Joanne M. Harris

017. The Lost City of the Monkey God, Douglas Preston

018. The Life and Medieval Times of Kit Sweetly, Jamie Pacton

019. The Smallest Lights in the Universe, Sara Seager

020. Don't Look for Me, Wendy Walker

021. Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, Elle Cosimano

022. The Beauty in Breaking, Michele Harper

023. High School, Sara Quin and Tegan Quin

024. A Keeper, Graham Norton

025. Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo

026. This Accident of Being Lost, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

027. The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, Meg Elison

028. The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel

029. Confessions on the 7:45, Lisa Unger

030. Grown, Tiffany D. Jackson

031. Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby

032. The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett

033. Charming As a Verb, Ben Philippe

034. Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam

035. Race to the Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse

036. A Beginning at the End, Mike Chen

037. Day One, Kelly deVos

038. American Spy, Lauren Wilkinson

039. New Waves, Kevin Nguyen

040. Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life, Lulu Miller

041. Crashing the A-List, Summer Heacock

042. Witchmark, C. L. Polk

043. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert

044. Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings, Craig Brown

045. We Could Be Heroes, Mike Chen

046. Exciting Times, Naoise Dolan

047. Libertie, Kaitlyn Greenidge

048. Fighting Words, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

049. The Death of Vivek Oji, Akwaeke Emezi

050. Untamed, Glennon Doyle

051. Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life, Melody Moezzi

052. Thin Girls, Diana Clarke

053. The Subtweet, Vivek Shraya

054. This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers, Jeff Sharlet

055. The Burning, Laura Bates

056. The Wife Upstairs, Rachel Hawkins

057. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness, Sy Montgomery

058. Silver Sparrow, Tayari Jones

059. The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature, J. Drew Lanham

060. The Rumi Prescription: How an Ancient Mystic Poet Changed My Modern Manic Life, Melody Moezzi

061. The Book of Delights, Ross Gay

062. What A Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins, Jonathan Balcombe

063. It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated Into Your Greatest Advantage, Arlan Hamilton with Rachel L. Nelson

064. Awkward: The Science of Why We're Socially Awkward and Why That's Awesome, Ty Tashiro

065. Even As We Breathe, Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

066. The Yellow House, Sarah M. Broom

067. This Is My America, Kim Johnson

068. Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen, Dexter Palmer

069. Star Daughter, Shveta Thakrar

070. Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo

071. Animal, Lisa Taddeo

072. Deadly Education, Naomi Novik

073. vN, Madeline Ashby

074. Beautiful Boy, David Sheff

075. Winter Counts, David Heska Wanbli Weiden

076. Wham! George Michael & Me, Andrew Ridgeley

077. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Claire North

078. The Unreality of Memory, Elisa Gabbert

079. Filthy Animals, Brandon Taylor

080. The Everlasting, Katy Simpson Smith

081. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, Rebecca Hall

082. Orfeo, Richard Powers

083. Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction, Gabrielle Moss

084. City of Girls, Elizabeth Gilbert

085. Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger

086. Blacktop Wasteland, S. A. Cosby

087. The Blade Between, Sam J. Miller

088. Gloryland, Shelton Johnson

089. Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas

090. Scattered Lights, Steve Wiegenstein

091. Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline

092. Proxies, Brian Blanchfield

093. Blackout, Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon

094. Walking on Cowrie Shells, Nana Nkweti

095. Solutions and Other Problems, Allie Brosh

096. Suburban Dicks, Fabian Nicieza

097. Only Mostly Devastated, Sophie Gonzales

098. Unsettled Ground, Claire Fuller

099. Tremendous Things, Susin Nielsen

100. Concrete Rose, Angie Thomas

101. From the Desk of Zoe Washington, Janae Marks

102. Finding Junie Kim, Ellen Oh

103. Big Girl Plus..., Meg Elison

103. Ophie's Ghosts, Justina Ireland

104. The Return of the Sorceress, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

105. Fox & I: An Uncommon Friendship, Catherine Raven

106. Pax, Sara Pennypacker

107. Flyaway, Kathleen Jennings

108. Hex, Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

109. Disappear Dopplegänger Disappear, Matthew Salesses

110. The Gilded Ones, Namina Forna

111. Hurricane Summer, Asha Bromfield

112. Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power, Anna Merlan

113. Excavation, Wendy C. Ortiz

114. Sex Education, Jenny Davis

115. Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains, Kerri Arsenault

116. A Universe of Wishes, Dhonielle Clayton, ed.

117. In a Holidaze, Christina Lauren

118. Dial A for Aunties, Jesse Q. Sutanto

119. Her Dark Lies, J.T. Ellison

120. The Various Haunts of Men, Susan Hill

121. Matrix, Lauren Groff

122. The Queer Principles of Kit Webb, Cat Sebastian

123. Pax: Journey Home, Sara Pennypacker

124. Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner

125. Feathered, Laura Kasischke

126. The Ex Hex, Erin Sterling

127. The Hidden World of the Fox, Adele Brand

128. The Echo Wife, Sarah Gailey

129. Better Luck Next Time, Julia Claiborne Johnson

130. The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner

131. The Kindest Lie, Nancy Johnson

132. Waiting for the Night Song, Julie Carrick Dalton

133. Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer, Rax King

134. The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline

135. For the Wolf, Hannah Whitten

136. Punch Me Up to the Gods, Brian Broome

Poetry Books Read in 2021

001. The Emperor's Babe, Bernadine Evaristo

002. Obit, Victoria Chang

003. Chlorine Sky, Mahogany L. Brown

004. Dearly, Margaret Atwood

- SEALEY CHALLENGE -

005. Ordinary Beast, Nicole Sealey

006. We Want Our Bodies Back, jessica Care moore

007. The Gospel of Barbecue, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

008. The Octopus Museum, Barbara Shaughnessy

009. Unaccompanied, Javier Zamora

010. Don't Call Us Dead, Danez Smith

011. The Undressing, Li-Young Lee

012. Felon, Reginald Dwayne Betts

013. Bestiary, Donika Kelly

014. Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky

015. An American Sunrise, Joy Harjo

016. Sonata Mulattica, Rita Dove

017. Homie, Danez Smith

018. Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across, Mary Lambert

019. Native Guard, Natasha Trethewey

020. Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, Alice Walker

021. Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well, Maya Angelou

022. Power Politics, Margaret Atwood

023. Mezzanine, Zoë Hitzig

024. I Will Destroy You, Nick Flynn

025. Be Recorder, Carmen Giménez Smith

026. Sentences and Rain, Elaine Equi

027. Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, Patricia Smith

028. Barbie Chang, Victoria Chang

029. Lighthead, Terrance Hayes

030. Semiautomatic, Evie Shockley

031. We Inherit What the Fires Left, William Evans

032. Black Girl, Call Home, Jasmine Mans

- SEPTEMBER -

033. Maybe the Saddest Thing, Marcus Wicker

034. Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night, Morgan Parker

035. Felicity, Mary Oliver

036. Midland, Kwame Dawes

037. Brown, Kevin Young

038. Hybrida, Tina Chang

039. Ariel, The Restored Edition, Sylvia Plath

040. Ariel in Black, Michelle R. Smith

041. The Crown Ain't Worth Much, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

042. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Terrance Hayes

043. Playlist for the Apocalypse, Rita Dove

044. it was never going to be okay, jaye simpson

045. Peluda, Melissa Lozada-Oliva

046. White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia, Kiki Petrosino

047. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, Morgan Parker

048. Thrust, Heather Derr-Smith

049. The Renunciations, Donika Kelly

050. When I Walk Through That Door, I Am: An Immigrant Mother's Quest, Jimmy Santiago Baca

051. Be Holding, Ross Gay

052. A Cruelty Special to Our Species, Emily Jungmin Yoon

053. Vantage, Taneum Bambrick

054. Magical Negro, Morgan Parker

055. The Wilderness, Sandra Lim

056. What Noise Against the Cane, Desiree C. Bailey

057. The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth

058. Incarnadine, Mary Szybist

059. Incorrect Merciful Impulses, Camille Rankine

060. The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, Laure-Anne Bosselaar

061. Don't Let Me Be Lonely, Claudia Rankine

062. The 100 Best African American Poems, Nikki Giovanni, ed.

063. Home Is Not a Country, Safia Elhillo

064. The Curious Thing, Sandra Lim

065. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

066. The Infinitesimals, Laura Kasischke

067. Hollywood Forever, Harmony Holiday

068. Love and Other Poems, Alex Dimitrov

Zoey and her purple hat

Presented without comment.

2020 Books

Posting quickly so I can update the list for 2021. 

001. The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, Junauda Petrus

002. So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo

003. Little Weirds, Jenny Slate

004. Winterwood, Shea Ernshaw

005. The Body in Question, Jill Ciment

006. Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi

007. How We Fight for Our Lives, Saeed Jones

008. The Beautiful, Renee Ahdieh

009. The Night Country, Melissa Albert

010. Before and After: The Incredible Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society, Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate

011. The Last True Poets of the Sea, Julia Drake

012. Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger, Lucy Dancyger, ed.

013. Perfect Little Children, Sophie Hannah

014. Old Bones, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

015. Made for Love, Alissa Nutting

016. Vita Nostra, Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, translated by Julia Meitov Hersey

017. Good Girls Lie, J.T. Ellison

018. Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel

019. The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife, Lucy Cooke

020. Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me, Erin Khar

021. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

022. Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood, Rose George

023. No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America, Darnell L. Moore

024. The Secret Lives of Color, Kassia St. Clair

025. Sparrow Hill Road, Seanan McGuire

026. Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales, Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson

027. Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, Pam Houston

028. Middlegame, Seanan McGuire

029. Little, Edward Carey

030. The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders

031. Daisy Jones & The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid

032. The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi

033. All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft, Geraldine DeRuiter

034. The Book Charmer, Karen Hawkins

035. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language, Amanda Montell

036. Day Zero, Kelly DeVos

037. Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim, Leah Vernon

038. The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old, translated by Hester Velmans

039. There Will Be No Miracles Here, Casey Gerald

040. No Country for Old Gnomes, Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne

041. The Red Pencil, Andrea Davis Pinkney

042. Upright Women Wanted, Sarah Gailey

043. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, Margaret Renkl

044. Gold Rush Girl, Avi

045. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, T. Kira Madden

046. The View From Flyover Country: Dispatches From the Forgotten America, Sarah Kendzior

047. Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid

048. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge

049. A Thousand Fires, Shannon Price

050. A Crown of Wishes, Roshani Chokshi

051. Emmy in the Key of Code, Aimee Lucido

052. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi

053. The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Christy Lefteri

054. House of Salt and Sorrows, Erin A. Craig

055. Docile, K.M. Szpara

056. Buzz Sting Bite: Why We Need Insects, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, translated by Lucy Moffatt

057. The Black God's Drums, P. Djèlí Clark

058. Crying Laughing, Lance Rubin

059. The Editor, Steven Rowley

060. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz

061. Everywhere You Don't Belong, Gabriel Bump

062. The Pinks: The First Women Detectives, Operatives, and Spies with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, Chris Enss

063. Three Women, Lisa Taddeo

064. The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo

065. Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi

066. Real Men Knit, Kwana Jackson

067. I'm Not Dying with You Tonight, Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal

068. The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live, Heather B. Armstrong

069. A World Without Bees, Allison Benjamin and Brian McCallum

070. Orphan Eleven, Gennifer Choldenko

071. The Lost Book of Adana Moreau, Michael Zapata

072. The Princess Beard, Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne

073. A River of Royal Blood, Amanda Joy

074. The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health, David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé

075. Forest of a Thousand Lanterns, Julie C. Dao

076. The Deep, Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes

077. Afterlife, Julia Alvarez

078. Friday Black, Nana Kwame Adjeh-Brenyah

079. Saving Ruby King, Catherine Adel West

080. Real Life, Brandon Taylor

081. In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado

082. Meaty, Samantha Irby

083. Luster, Raven Leilani

084. Weather, Jenny Offill

085. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

086. Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado

087. Conjure Women, Afia Atakora

088. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, Cathy Park Hong

089. Crooked Hallelujah, Kelli Jo Ford

090. Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson

091. A Blade So Black, L.L. McKinney

092. The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, Maggie Tokuda-Hall

093. A Song Below Water, Bethany C. Morrow

094. Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton

095. A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home, Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary, eds.

096. The Dreamers, Karen Thompson Walker

097. Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, Philip Cushway and Michael Warr, eds

098. Make Russia Great Again, Christopher Buckley

099. I Wanna Be Where You Are, Kristina Forest

100. Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha, eds.

101. More Than Maybe, Erin Hahn

102. Verge, Lidia Yuknavitch

103. When We Were Magic, Sarah Gailey

104. Light From Other Stars, Erika Swyler

105. The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue

106. Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz

107. Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco, Alia Volz

108. A Madness of Angels, Or, The Resurrection of Matthew Swift, Kate Griffin

109. Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It, Kamal Ravikant

110. The Color of Air, Gail Tsukiyama

111. Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World, Laura Spinney

122. The Midnight Library, Matt Haig

123. The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls, Mona Eltahawy

124. The War That Saved My Life, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

125. The War I Finally Won, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

126. Find Layla, Meg Elison

127. African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, A Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan, Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard.

128. Anxious People, Fredrik Backman

129. Early Departures, Justin A. Reynolds

130. Legendborn, Tracy Deonn

131. Let's Never Talk About This Again, Sara Faith Alterman

132. His Only Wife, Peace Adzo Medie

133. Ties That Tether, Jane Igharo

134. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed.

135. Cinderella Is Dead, Kalynn Bayron

136. The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, Zen Cho

137. The Age of Phillis, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

138. The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing, Mira Jacob

139. Hench, Natalie Zina Walschots

140. The Expats, Chris Pavone

141. The Paris Diversion, Chris Pavone

142. The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From Here, Hope Jahren

143. A Million Aunties, Alecia McKenzie

144. Felix Ever After, Kacen Callender

145. All Your Twisted Secrets, Diana Urban

146. The Office of Historical Corrections, Danielle Evans

147. Trust Exercise, Susan Choi

148. Particulate Matter, Felicia Luna Lemus

149. Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark

150. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Deesha Philyaw

151. This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story, Kacen Callender

152. He Started It, Samantha Downing

153. Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity, Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods

154. Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century, Charles King

155. Beasts Made of Night, Tochi Onyebuchi

156. Crown of Thunder, Tochi Onyebuchi

157. Mean, Myriam Gurba

158. The Freezer Door, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

159. Trouble the Saints, Alaya Dawn Johnson

160. Lay Me Down Among the Words: A Collection of Poetry by a Trauma Survivor Whose Inner Voice Saved Her Life, Deborah Hallal Bradt, R.Y.T.

It's soup, not brain surgery

It's officially fall. I should be in Rhinebeck for NY Sheep and Wool, but since too many people think that being considerate of others is too much of a sacrifice, the festival was cancelled. 

Anyway, we're doing our part and staying home as much as possible. The weather has turned cooler, so my soup-loving husband has started demanding soup. Because I am a monster who twists his words in order to make his life miserable, I made broccoli soup. (We also had a gorgeous head of broccoli from our CSA. This thing was so massive and beautiful that I felt guilty about chopping it up. I am planning to make a casserole with cauliflower and kale tonight, because I love forcing him to eat foods that he hates. Also CSA.) 

Sharing this recipe because it actually was quite tasty. I feel guilty about making ya'll scroll through three paragraphs to get to the recipe, but hey, at least you won't be forced to close an intrusive video or a pop-up asking you to join my email list. Source recipe is at this link, with all sorts of shit to scroll through before you get to the recipe: broccoli cheese soup. This is what I did:

INGREDIENTS (amounts approximate; it's soup):

1 tablespoon + 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided

1 onion, diced 

3 cloves garlic, pressed

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

4 cups stock (I used water + mushroom bouillon)

4 cups milk (she used half and half, I prefer keeping that for my coffee)

1 giant head of broccoli, diced into bite-size pieces

6 small carrots, trimmed, peeled, and sliced into very thin rounds, about 1/16th-inch

smoked paprika 

dry mustard powder

chili powder 

Big chunk of sharp cheddar cheese, grated (half a Costco-sized package)

DIRECTIONS:

Saute the onion in a little bit of butter until it makes you happy.

Add the garlic and cook a bit longer.

Add another whack of butter, and after it melts toss in the spices: dry mustard, smoked paprika, and chili powder. 

Let them bloom just a bit, then stir in the flour. 

Disclosure: I see no point in dirtying another pan in order to make a roux.

Add carrots now if you like them best when cooked into oblivion, like I do.

Slowly add the vegetable stock, whisking constantly. (I used a spoon rather than a whisk.)

Slowly add the milk, whisking constantly.

Allow mixture to simmer over low heat, stirring occasionally.

While mixture is simmering, chop the broccoli. 

When the giant head of broccoli is in small pieces, dump that in.

Simmer until the texture of the broccoli makes you happy. 

While the soup is cooking, grate the cheese if you aren't using the pre-grated stuff. 

Dump in the cheese, stir until it's melted and integrated.

Eat.

I was just told that if I ever have to "get rid of" more broccoli, this soup is an acceptable way to do it, but it needs a sandwich as a side. Or maybe the soup is the side. Whatever. I ate the leftovers, so I don't care what he thinks. (Yes, I am pissy. I was watching a livestream on my tablet and he walked upstairs to tell me he was thinking of buying a projection tv thing so I could watch livestreams on a 100" thing. I don't think he even realized he was interrupting something. So he's getting cauliflower and kale for dinner.)

And hey, it's the end, let me share an ugly picture of the soup: