@kidsilkhaze.bsky.social
I like coffee, books, and yarn. Unless otherwise specified, library posts are about the field in general.
All the damn time. Kirkus is the biggest offender, but SLJ is the one I saw today.
11.12.2023 20:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0SLJ wouldn't say this about an Easter book:
"the lack of any explanation of the seder and the narrow focus on the afikomen leaves one with no sense of the experience or importance of the holiday. Back matter explains the afikomen, but also neglects the rest of the holiday."
For a moment, I thought this was 1 really long dog!
08.12.2023 03:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
First tweet is someone demanding a Christian pride month with christian music and CHristian flag and Christian programming and Christian parades and the QT is: She just described december
03.12.2023 01:50 — 👍 6304 🔁 1527 💬 76 📌 38May we all live our lives so that social media sites don’t rejoice like Ewoks at the end of Jedi upon news of our death.
30.11.2023 02:31 — 👍 4582 🔁 1236 💬 33 📌 40Today I got to explain to someone why you don't want to cross Nora Roberts.
I compared her to Dolly Parton and then paraphrased The Wire - If you come for the queen, you best not miss.
Still can’t get it to load on desktop, which is why I’m not around very much. It’s very annoying
28.11.2023 12:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I write a monthly column in Arlington Magazine highlighting some great new releases!
www.arlingtonmagazine.com/best-books-t...
A book called "Crab Bait" by Joseph Brennan for $90.99
Today's first "You must be out of your mind" To be fair, the consumer price is also stupid. #collectiondevelopment amzn.to/46pqNLx
20.11.2023 17:57 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
"Biscuits earned an accounting degree and currently works as a CPA. He met his future wife Cheryl on a singles cruise in 2007. It was love at first sight, and the two were married in a non-denominational ceremony later that year."
20.11.2023 18:00 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Last night I dreamt Te$la did a hard pivot to DTC nail polish.
Not going to lie, it was a good product and I woke up this morning ready to subscribe. 🤣🤣🤣
Also, our snow starts a wintery mix, which then freezes to
Ice and ends in wintry mix which forms another layer of ice. I learned to drive in SNOW, not an ice-snow-ice sandwich!
Ugh. I’ve been unable to get the Bluesky website to load on my computer for weeks now. It keeps saying I’m not online (I’m definitely online).
Very annoying!
And... they've added the gingerbread latte to the app.
It's not featured in all their holiday menu stuff, but IT'S IN THE APP. IT IS BACK.
It's a Christmas miracle!
I write a monthly column in Arlington Magazine highlighting some great new releases!
www.arlingtonmagazine.com/best-books-t...
That's just making the best of a rough situation!
06.11.2023 14:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
There are 3 rows of books. Between the 2nd and 3rd row it says "October Reads." The books are That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon (with a star it indicate I loved it), That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf (star), That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human (star) Spy Family 4, Spy Family 5, Spy Family 6, Spy Family 7, Spy Family 8, Spy Family 9, Under the Eye of Power (with a headphone icon to indicate I listened to the audio book) Spare (with headphones) The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy (star) The Angel Makers (headphones) Business or Pleasure (star) The Road to Rosewell.
I had a pretty good reading month in October!
06.11.2023 03:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Y'all... Starbucks hasn't officially brought back the Gingerbread Latte, BUT, with their oatmilk gingerbread chai, they have the gingerbread syrup, so the OG latte can totally be ordered off-menu.
IT'S (secretly) BACK!
idk man I have a bad weird feeling about this week, please look out for your Jewish and Muslim friends. (you don't need to tell them about it)
31.10.2023 17:39 — 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0I bow to the people in my neighborhood handing out full-size Kinder Bueno
31.10.2023 23:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Illustrated cover of Love, Lies, and Cherry Pie by Jackie Lau. Blue background with red polka dots of different sizes. East Asian man in argyle sweater vest is sitting on the largest of these dots, and he's holding a phone. Cat is beside him. Woman is sitting on a slice of cherry pie. She has a book open on her lap and is glancing in the man's direction.
Here's the cover for Love Lies, and Cherry Pie! 😍🥧
Coming May 7, 2024 from Atria/Emily Bestler Books.
jackielaubooks.com/books/love-l...
Bones of Faerie is a BookBub featured deal today, which means the ebook is just 99 cents! So if you've been thinking you want to give my books a try, this would be a pretty great time to do that.
www.bookbub.com/books/bones-...
A cartoon post from Alt National Park & Forest Service from October 14th a few years ago. It's 4 panels. A bunch of trees are all green in the first one. One says "Okay, trees, let's get naked!" In the second panel, all the trees have turned various colors....red, yellow, orange, green. In the third panel, most of the trees are looking bare. In the 4th panel, they're all bare but the green one. A fir tree. One of the naked trees says "WTF, Douglas?"
It's the time of year for one of my favorite cartoons. Sometimes I catch myself looking at our trees going "WTF, Douglas?" 😂
23.10.2023 14:06 — 👍 153 🔁 64 💬 4 📌 1Things people should really know by now - if you see a tweet making an unbelievable claim and linking to the article where it comes from... read the article.
People I usually like and respect are fear-mongering over a social media lie (or possible tasteless joke)
I quote this to my kids and myself all the time
17.10.2023 11:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is such a great point, and it’s why “I buy banned books” is weaponized by the book burners themselves. They love to sidestep their systemic attack by saying “you can still buy the book on Amazon” and hope we don’t notice the trick
16.10.2023 13:35 — 👍 44 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1So many people have no concept of just how critical the library market is for children's books. It's part of why I never bothered to try to self-publish the two MG books I wrote and was unable to sell: kids don't buy their own books. You can sell inexpensive ebooks direct to adults, not to kids.
16.10.2023 13:54 — 👍 262 🔁 111 💬 3 📌 0That deciding to buy banned books for your own personal shelves doesn't even come close to solving the harms done by book banning, and actually we'd rather you show up and speak out at your school board and library board meetings and also help elect better candidates - or run for office yourself.
15.10.2023 21:07 — 👍 810 🔁 284 💬 8 📌 11But mostly, think of the dead.
The ones we know and the ones who weren't counted.
Think of the survivors and how they had to rebuild and carry on.
Remember that history is about people.
Remember the people.
(30/30. fin)
It's a day to think about the history we hear, and the history we don't, and why. (29/?)
08.10.2023 17:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
