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Grace Todd @misscajlin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I wrote about Solzhenitsyn, censorship, and burnout, bc last Halloween I dressed up as “the corpse of the publishing industry” and I worry every day that we aren’t going to get the literature we deserve in the current moment: open.substack.com/pub/gracetod...

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Burnout and Censorship

Do we remember how to advocate for challenging, complicated literature?

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Grace Todd @misscajlin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I encountered the Biedermeier Period for the first time researching the OG Nosferatu (did you know the 1922 film is a period piece?) & anyway there was absolutely no resonance in learning about a time in which art got really bland to cater to the tastes of a prosperous-but-touchy middle class

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Didn’t Read It @didntreadit.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

We can be hip! We do pop culture! We’re horny for vampires over here as we dig into Dracula AND both Nosferatu films with friend of the pod @madelineandnine.bsky.social. If you’ve ever wondered where the line between film and novel lies, well listen up. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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From Victoriana to Tech Billionaires: Nosferatu, Nosferatu, and Dracula

Podcast Episode · Didn't Read It · 03/09/2025 · 1h 35m

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Grace Todd @misscajlin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

On the other hand, tiny irises

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Grace Todd @misscajlin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Dentist always makes me feel like a dog being taken to the vet. Mildly sedated. Discomfort you are assured is for your long-term benefit. Everyone very preoccupied with preventing a Biting Incident.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

You: Oh my god the house is on fire! Me (wise, has read books): And you're surprised? Houses have been on fire before [as the flames consume us both] Furthermore,

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Grace Todd @misscajlin.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

As someone who reads a lot of Classic Lit introductions, this got me good

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Grace Todd @misscajlin.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Happy Sunday, come hang out with me & the world’s most upbeat novel, written by the world’s happiest guy 💕

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Didn’t Read It @didntreadit.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Come closer… closer… closer. Okay perfect. It’s time for a creepy little Roald Dahl story. Joining us to talk through “Skin” is a lovely friend of the pod and purveyor of tattoo artistry @jessversus.bsky.social Us, Roald and I, just can’t wait for you to listen. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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Grace Todd @misscajlin.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

We are a very respectable classic lit podcast and we did NOT get raunchy for Valentine’s Day weekend. We would NEVER. How could you even SUGGEST it. 👀❤️✍️🍑🍆❤️

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Grace Todd @misscajlin.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I almost forgot to post that I recorded an EXCELLENT episode with @jessversus.bsky.social about tattoos, Roald Dahl, and how you should always be suspicious of the rich. You can find it here or on the usual platforms! www.didntreaditpod.com/episodes/hol...

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Roald Dahl's "Skin" — Didn't Read It

We're talking about the age-old tensions between fine art, needing to eat, and deciding whether selling out is worth it as we discuss Roald Dahl's 1952 short story, "Skin." If you would like to find ...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/02/2025

I definitely feel I'm Jokerfying. You look one way and you've got 4 different Beavis-Snokes deleting every third grandpa from social security and in the other it's an economy currently hinging on the success of the least profitable software product of all time that is also destroying the earth.

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Grace Todd @misscajlin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I plotted the perfect murder and wrote the perfect fake note from my wife to cover my tracks but she says it’s laughably obvious I did it and is trying to steal my thunder, AITA? www.buzzsprout.com/2135987/epis...

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Grace Todd @misscajlin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Wrote about the weirdness of Christmas sans the whole Christ bit, and why I do holiday ghost stories on Didn’t Read It: open.substack.com/pub/gracetod...

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Why Ghost Stories at Christmas?

Or: What Does This Holiday Even MEAN

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Didn’t Read It @didntreadit.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Well #LPHartley called and says nothing says the holidays like Santa-related daddy issues. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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Daddy Issues and Festive Shafts: L.P. Hartley's

Podcast Episode · Didn't Read It · 12/08/2024 · 54m

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Grace Todd @misscajlin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Didn’t Read It has a substack now! A place where I deposit *~bonus thoughts~* about the books we cover—kicking off with a little meditation on Faust and Billionaire Brain Damage: open.substack.com/pub/gracetod...

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An Epilogue: Faustus, Billionaires and Self-Deception

DIDN'T READ IT HAS A NEWSLETTER NOW, WELCOME >3

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Grace Todd @misscajlin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A friend sent me a package of “book-themed” stickers as a surprise and I don’t know how closely he looked before he bought them but, uhhhhh

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Grace Todd @misscajlin.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

This cat does not have a single thought in his tiny head. That is all.

A black cat lying on a red pillow looking like his smooth little brain has never retained a single goddamned thing

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Didn’t Read It @didntreadit.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

We have a NEW EPISODE up about a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne called “Rappaccini’s Daughter.” Listen to @misscajlin.bsky.social and Galen Canham discuss an important life lesson: why it’s so messed up to keep your daughter in a garden of poisonous plants until she herself becomes poisonous.

A train charges into a bus. The train is labeled “the intended moral of a Nathaniel Hawthorne story” and the bus is labeled “the reader”

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 23/09/2023

Urban Planning Opinion Progression xkcd.com/2832

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Grace Todd @misscajlin.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

GOOD MORNING ARE YOU AWARE THAT IT IS TIME FOR BELLY RUBS

A very very close-up picture (mostly nose) of a pitty mutt dog sticking her face almost directly into my armpit in an attempt to get her belly rubbed before it is time for work. Photo from the perspective of my chin, roughly.

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Grace Todd @misscajlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

This is obviously the best way to post for the first time on a new platform, anyway here’s how I cope with existing

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