Good morning everyone,

Hope you're having a lovely Friday. It's a really pretty morning here in London and I hope it is where you are too.

And this is the first Fem Fri of 2022! This means that as usual I wrote my review of reading for the year. Some familiar stuff here for Fem Fri readers but also some new stuff because I write about books by men way more than I do here:

When I first read [Ulysses], at 19, I thought that Bloom and Molly were… basically ancient, destined for the knackers’ yard at any moment. When I read it the second time around I found it stated actually quite clearly in the text that Bloom is a year younger than I am now, and Molly by extension is in her mid thirties.

https://vincennes.medium.com/vincennes-review-of-books-2021-3a50e6136c33

I'm not a big one for resolutions, but maybe you are, and maybe you would like the help of a powerful AI in constructing yours. If so, Janelle Shane at AI Weirdness has your back. This made me laugh so much:

Attempt to find peace living with an army of puppets.

Go to the beach every day for a week and shout the names of colors into the ocean.

https://www.aiweirdness.com/new-years-resolutions-generated-by-ai/

I mean I say I'm not a big one for resolutions but this slice of my message history indicates that I'm looking to change things at least a bit. It it also looks like it's been generated by an AI that has been trained on a corpus of the world's pettiest problems:

Love to you and your army of puppets and your Bentley Rhythm Ace CDs,

Alex xx.