Okay so my legal middle name(/initial) is one of the letters I couldn't say as a kid and had to speech therapy for.

My speech therapist told me I was wrong about what about middle name was.
My legal first name's spelled wrong constantly, there's another name a letter off that I get called constantly, and sometimes people just assign me a whole new name but that one still pops my corn.
Also, despite my name being in both my email and my blog title, I get blog emails calling me Lania, Liana, Lana, Laino and on one memorable occasion, Lauren.
My grocery orders also almost always have my name wrong on them but in fairness to them I've also straight up spelled my own name wrong putting my order in.

The autocorrect on my phone hates me.

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18 Feb
#LainaWatchesAnne Oscar Wilde once said, "We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."

So 2016 Anne had a sequel released February 20th, 2016, a year after the first movie came out. Let's just do this. Image
#LainaWatchesAnne I don't think it was released theatrically, but I have no background information because no one cares. It doesn't even have its own wikipedia page.

And why is it called Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars?No clue. The movie never explains it.
#LainaWatchesAnne It's certainly not something from the book. I got nothin' here.

I guess "2 Green 2 Gables" was taken already.
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28 Jan
Alright, after Tuesday's wild thread, are we ready for another round of #LainaWatchesAnne?
#LainaWatchesAnne This thread is going to be a little different as the state of musicals means I don't have access to a lot of what I'll be talking about.

Hence why today, we're talking more about Anne and musicals in general than one specific one.
#LainaWatchesAnne To start, let's talk about what I'm calling, for clarity's sake, the Charlottetown Festival musical.
Read 64 tweets
16 Jan
Thanks to everyone the reception to this post also! I like to do this one every year, but it really does take a while to do, and I'm quite proud of it.
I really, really love middle grade literature and I think it does everything YA does and more while having to both work with a generally more sensitive audience and, honestly, a lot more gatekeeping and less support.
I always try to talk about queer middle grade during @queer_reads because it means a lot to me and we really don't talk about it enough, in my opinion.

I'm 28 years old and some of the times I feel most seen as a human being is reading middle grade novels, honestly.
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15 Jan
Oooooh today is a good day. I got a package from my FAVOURITE person and this post went live!!
And also featuring @kathsby, @nataliecparker, @DeyaMuniz, @angrygirLcomics, @zackloranclark, @sb_pinkmantaray, @matokah, a couple people who don't have Twitter accounts, and like 12 other people because there's an anthology in the post.

So many that I had to do 2 tweets!
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15 Jan
My favourite part of this is Jenny just vehemently going to bat for LJ Smith and telling people to buy her books.

I suggest The Night of the Solstice myself! It's weird and kind of creepy and cool
It is like the weirdest of her books and nothing like any of the others of hers I read. The Strange Power was the other one I owned and also loved that. She was one of my favourite authors growing up.
Side note, the HELL is going on with this cover????
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14 Jan
Things have been kind of done, and I have a snack and a drink, so are you ready for today's #LainaWatchesAnne thread???
#LainaWatchesAnne Last time, we discussed some of how Anne is seen in Japan in general, from the perspective of someone who googled a bunch of stuff but is by no means an expert.

And today, before getting into the actual episode, we have a little more backstory.
#LainaWatchesAnne I promise, it's pretty interesting.
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