Kid Gloves

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Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos, Lucy Knisley. I remembered liking Relish, although I can't find my post about it (I wish search wasn't a paid feature, sigh), and when I spotted this at the library I thought it was the 2019 graphic novel about pregnancy on my to-read list, of which I dimly recalled there was one. It wasn't; that was Waves, which I think is... really different. But I'm a big sucker for birth stories (and Knisley's was certainly terrifying - I could see this book being really triggering for anyone who had a traumatic birth, so, uh, heads up if that's you). And even though I was already familiar with most of the information about miscarriage and weird pregnancy symptoms, and some of the stuff about historic medical treatment, there were some new-to-me facts (in 1591, Eufame Maclayne was burned at the stake in Scotland for chewing a painkilling herb during labor! damn!). Anyways, I'm sure I would have been super into this during my peak obsessive-reading-about-pregnancy years. Kind of like the comics version of all those infertility blogs I used to read.

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... I'm really tempted now by a paid account. I *could* pay for a paid account very easily... just want to be clear I'm not, like, fishing or something... it's more that I don't have a good decision-making structure for figuring out when it's okay to spend money on something unnecessary that I've never spent money on before? Like, it is already part of my habits that I go to movies sometimes, or concerts, so I feel like I can make a cost-vs-enthusiasm decision about any *given* concert, but I don't have any kind of internal reference point for "internet services that would be slightly more convenient than the free version". See also "the temptation of a paid account in Habitica, which would let us buy cute virtual things even though I've told my kids we don't ever spend real money on virtual things". Although journal searchability at least would not exactly be a virtual thing... hmmm...