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Susie Rodarme

Susie Rodarme is obsessed with small press literary fiction and tea. Other notable skills: chainmaille weaving, using Photoshop semi-correctly, and drinking gin.

Beyond Murakami: 7 Japanese Authors to Read

*Puts on Reading Hipster(TM) glasses* I got into Japanese authors and lit in 2002-ish, when I took a Japanese culture ...

5 Tips For Getting Out of a Long-Term Reading Slump

D’you ever find yourself . . . just not reading? For weeks? Or months? Maybe years? I have gone through ...

Reading, Asperger Syndrome, and Me

Autism is a spectrum condition, meaning that it manifests itself at different levels of severity. Asperger syndrome occupies a place ...

Nobody Cares What You Read

Sorry, sorry–I got the title slightly wrong. What I meant to say is that nobody whose opinion matters cares what ...

7 Novels To Read If You Love Batman

Superheroes generally aren’t my thing, but I’ve loved Batman since I was a wee child. My dad found the 1960’s series ...

5 Book Pet Peeves

Admittedly, I’m a little hard on books, to the point that people probably think I’m an elitist book snob. I ...

6 Addictive Webcomics To Binge-Read

A lot of people are getting into comics lately. I don’t read a ton of traditional comics but I’ve been ...

I Don’t Know How To Shop For Books Anymore

Yeah so, the other day, I had to go to an event on the other side of town and I ...

Authors and Social Media, Or: Why I Haven’t Read The New Outlander Yet

When the previous Outlander book came out, it was a Big Thing among me and a few of my friends. We would ...

5 Stages of Grief When Bad Things Happen to Beloved Characters

So. You were reading along, minding your own business, and Something Very Bad has suddenly happened to characters you like ...