Now, with less racism

Someone gave ARR a cute little outfit with a red fleece jacket that has a penguin on it. Black penguin, red beak. The first time I put him in it, I got him to daycare and then actually looked at it. The beak was pointed towards the viewer, so it was just an oval instead of a point, with a smile...I had the sudden, too-late, kinda horrifying realization that what I'm pretty sure was really intended to be a penguin looked, at a quick glance, an awful lot like those incredibly racist pickaninny dolls from the Jim Crow era. *facepalm*

I have subsequently sewn a little white triangular beak over top, so that it is more obvious now that this creature is, in fact, a penguin.

Oy.

Book Review #20: The Countess Conspiracy

Title: The Countess Conspiracy
Author: Courtney Milan
Genre: Regency romance
Thingummies: 5

Synopsis: Sebastian Malheur is a famous, brilliant, reviled scientist who dares lecture on Darwin's theories and how they relate to sexual selection. Violet is a widowed countess and Sebastian's best friend. They have a secret. Wait, no, two secrets. Wait, no, kind of a bucket of secrets that they take turns carrying until it upends all over them.

Thoughts: ( So, what did you think? )

2014 Book Review #21: Cat's Cradle

Title: Cat's Cradle
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Genre: Science fiction (present day)
Thingummies: 4.5

Synopsis: A writer profiling one of the creators of the atom bomb becomes entangled with his screwed up children and a mysterious substance called ice-nine that has the power to end life as we know it.

Thoughts: ( So, what do you think? )