Library Mary

The payoff of Milkman deciding the his family history in the song was exquisite. I felt his elation.

I read Beloved with an online AP lit class during remote learning during Covid. I wasn’t the teacher - I just joined that teacher’s zoom classes and read along with the students for the semester. It was such a meaningful connection for me during that time. It is hard for me to choose between these.

It took me almost 3 months to finish this one. I’m glad I stuck with it. I’m even more thankful for the discussion feed to help me process it! So many great insights. #BannedBookSkyClub #SongOfSolomon

The trauma comes not only from loss and grief resulting from death and physical violence but also the violence of their obscured history. It takes generations for milkman to learn their names and stories to help Pilate interpret her own visits from her father’s ghost.

Threads just seems like a place to rage bait educators now?

The bittersweet schadenfreude of a relationship you hated watching all along from afar coming to an end.

I was in kindergarten and watched it live. I didn’t grasp what really happened, so it didn’t traumatize me much, but I’ve never ever watched a rocket launch and assumed it would work.

Watching the OJ verdict live in high school bio class was more formative.

My summer reading manifesto: Articles about sports, video game tutorials, comics, whatever. All reading helps them become better readers and writers (and humans)! Parents, please hear me. Graphic Novels are reading! Re-reading is reading! Audiobooks are reading! Reading together is reading!

The way the relationship developed during the journey on the ice. I read it a few months the ago, so I struggle to give specifics, but the way their bond and the grueling journey they took and how that all made me feel are what I remember.

If you like standup, Atsuko Okatsuka has a new special on Hulu that I really want to see! Her last special “The Intruder” was great.

Don’t forget to vote today, NJ! 🗳️

Military parades should celebrate the end of a war or conflict, not the beginning.

Is this sci fi? Fantasy? I read sci fi only occasionally and fantasy rarely, and when I do, I gravitate toward this type of sci fi that veers toward political or philosophical. I enjoy when a world that seems unrealistic is grounded in a way that helps give perspective on our reality.

🔥135 Current Reads (3) Book covers left to right: Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture turned a generation of women against themselves by Sophie Gilbert, Twist by Colum McCann, Big Chief by Jon Hickey

#currentlyreading @thestorygraph.com #booksky 💙📚

Omg I literally had this exact debate in my own mind today. Thank you.

Pleeeeease NYC don’t rank Cuomo or Adams.

Want to join a book club that discusses banned books online here on Bluesky? No deadlines. Discussions are ongoing. Access talking points, updates, and members' discussion comments via the Banned Book Club feed. See quoted post below for more information. #BannedBookSkyClub #BookSky

Book cover for the audiobook of Free: My search for meaning by Amanda Knox

Surprised and grateful to encounter a description of atheism that is unapologetic and thoughtful in this book. Some believers have treated me so unkindly when they learned I am not one, and Knox echoes my response, that not believing in god does not mean I have no beliefs. #booksky 💙📚

Books: 7 Pages: 1,357 Hours: 33.15 Avg. Rating 3.79 Highest rated reads Never Saw Me Coming by Tanya Smith - 4.5 The Funny Thing About Norman Foremen by Julietta Henderson - 4.25 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King - 4.25 Average book length 311 pages Average time to finish 13 days Pie chart - Fiction (pink) 71%; Non-Fiction (purple) 29% Bar chart of genres Memoir - pink - 2 Contemporary - yellow - 1 Horror - Black - 1 Poetry - Blue - 1 Politics - Gray - 1 Line graph Pages read (green) ranging from 0-200 per day Minutes listened (yellow) ranging from 0-580 per day Pie chart - audio (purple) 43%; print (blue) 43%; digital (pink) 14% Black StoryGraph logo

7 book covers in grid. Top row, left to right Enough Rope: a book of light verse by Dorothy Parker Dog town by Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King That Librarian: The fight against book banning in America by Amanda Jones Bottom row, left to right Never Saw Me Coming by Tanya Smith The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman by Julietta Henderson Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld

In May, I found the books I enjoyed the most were books I wouldn’t have chosen without recommendations from others. @thestorygraph.com #booksky 💙📚

The list of possible suspects seemed long. An abridged lineup of people and constituencies currently unhappy with Mr. Musk includes: at least two of the many women with whom he has fathered children; pretty much the entire federal bureaucracy; his neighbors in a suburb of Austin, Texas; Tesla shareholders; old friends of his; Republicans on Capitol Hill; his 20-year-old daughter; all those people who have lit Teslas on fire; and even some Trump voters. But it wasn't any of those people who gave him the black eye. It was, he said, his progeny X, age 5.

Live your life so The NY Times doesn’t spend an entire paragraph speculating everyone who wants to punch you.

My HS missed a lot of the standard HS books, too but it wasn’t bc they were more collegiate. It’s hard to catch up when you miss those common reads.

Yay! People are often surprised at the books I haven’t read yet since I’m a librarian, but like, there are so many books!

I actually have never read this one! 😳

Photo of book The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin on a faux wood desktop. Cover is shades of blue with a space/stars design and with letters on the right side backwards.

Don't forget, the June 2025 #BannedBookSkyClub book is #TheLeftHandOfDarkness by Ursula Le Guin. Discussion begin date is June 9, 2025.

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Watching other adults ruin a sport for kids is the worst.

It’s so disappointing when wealth is wasted on the tasteless.

I’ve been working really hard on not using Amazon and I’m using a similar muscle to try really hard not to give clicks to websites that thrive off of farming clicks with misinformation and rage bait. They don’t care about putting people in danger, they only care about ad buys and eyeballs.

It’s so refreshing to see genuine effort and care put into something! This is a nice antidote to all the news and opinions about AI. Here. This is what we lose.

Three book covers - The Giver by Lois Lowry; Free: My search for Meaning by Amanda Knox (audiobook); and The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

#currentlyreading #middlegrade #scifi #memoir #audiobooks #litfic #mystery #booksky 💙📚

I’m sorry but roosters in the suburbs is a No for me.