Ryn
@rynrichmond
Editor, writer, poet, science communicator, former teacher. Passionate about language retention and revitalization, space, seahorses, dragonflies, disability, reproductive health. 🇺🇸 to 🇳🇿. 🏳🌈. Board game geek. Fibro+endo.
The lobster card is ADORABLE and I love book recs. I am a salty sea hat, tyvm. The heartfelt ornament is already on the tree and I can't wait to taste the tea. I might use it to make tea soup (from a vegan Vietnamese cookbook I have).
My 13-month-old kitty, Gilgamesh, aka GAY cat, aka sweet potato pie. He chews my poems. Husband calls him readers digest.
Finally could take a photo where my cat, Gilgamesh, isn't sitting on them. #MWSecretSantaAoNZ
#MWSecretSantaAoNZ I'm an avid board gamer and am involved with the hB Geek Guild
#MWSecretSantaAoNZ I have a nearly 7 month old void who thinks he's EvelKnieval. He's actually named Gilgamesh.
Gil (Duke of Yellerton) takes his job of helping to choose the right poems for me to submit for publication very seriously. One of them may have involved fish.
11. How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir Amber Dawn. As it is an autobiographical mix of prose and poetry, it deals with themes of poverty, sex work, queerness, and all the beauty and uglinessness. Only wish it were longer.
10. Magic Remembered by Coralie Moss. An absolute gem. The older protagonist is fun.
9. Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi. Loved the characters--LGBTQIA, disabled, wolfish, strange.
8. Wisława Szymborska: Poems New and Collected. If I could read Polish, I'd read her Poems as she wrote them. The translator did a phenomenal job. The collection was really pivotal to me as a writer.
7. Goldilocks by Laura Lam I like space thrillers. Can't get enough sci fi about space and the way sff shows us the cracks in our society.
6. The Summer of the Ubume by Natsuhiko Kyogoku So rarely do I read a book as quickly as I did this. Every spare moment I had was spent reading it. Weird horror mystery. It was my first book dealing with Japanese lore.
5. The Peace Keeper by BL Blanchard. I do enjoy a good what-if story+mystery. What if the US and Canada were never colonized? From the first page, I couldn't put it down -- I was so engrossed.
3. The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matte, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by @chanda.bsky.social I loved the passion for the night sky and cosmology and appreciated the approach to about the ways academia and science could become less oppressive.
2. Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen. Loved the world-building and character development and West African lore.
1. The kamogawa food detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai. Lovely vignettes-- each chapter has a different character trying to find a dish. The father-daughter duo is really cute here.