reading wednesday

• What are you reading?

Writers in the Secret Garden: Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring, by Cecilia Aragon and Katie Davis. I picked it up because my kid wants to do data visualization, and I was helping her look at Masters' programs, and I would definitely choose Cecilia Aragon's department at UW for her.

The thesis is that people become better writers through the "distributed mentoring" they get in the fanfic community. How can we measure getting better at writing? How can we measure mentoring? How can we test whether these are related? And what about the fanfic community enables this distributed mentoring? Fascinating!

• What did you recently finish reading?

Catfishing on Catnet, by Naomi Kritzer. Really good hopepunk.

• What do you think you’ll read next?

My next book group books are Plum Rains, by Andromeda Romano-Lax, for SF book group,
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, for classics book group, and
Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James Loewen, for library book group.

• What are you watching?

I saw Knives Out with Mungo.
I'm watching the second season of Killing Eve with Neal.