@melissaeve.bsky.social
I work in higher education at a rural community college in the Midwest. Background in public and college libraries. Learner, yin yogini, book, film, and music nerd. 🫖 connoisseur and 📚 Enabler.
I'll be honest...I do love a good tea spill 🫖🔍📖
#booksky 📚💙
#verawong'sunsolictedadviceformurderers
Cartoon by Maria Scrivan: Benefits of Books, with a graphic of a book and its benefits: no glare, no battery, dog ears, probably won't get stolen at the beach, smells good, no pop up ads
Why read books? Because books are still the most powerful, reliable, transportive & magical storytelling technology we've invented - and all they need to work is YOUR OWN IMAGINATION! #booksky
(Cartoon by @mariascrivan.bsky.social)
I've worked in similar situations at a few libraries...cardigan on, cardigan off sorta thing!
11.07.2025 14:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I really do love a good cardigan.
#booksky 📚💙
"I read something about medicine once. It Goes like this: "Medicine no less than religion is a matter of the spirit, of the figurative heart of the soul. True medicine embraces the belief that each and every one of us is important, and we are under the canopy of heaven alike."" - Chris Stevens
16.06.2025 03:24 — 👍 120 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0
Just wanted to take a moment and thank books for doing their job of being the distraction we all need during all of *this*
Living in the US right now means that sometimes it all gets too much and I need a safe place to go when it becomes too overwhelming for me. Books are my safe place.
#booksky #reader #unprecedentedtimes
My current book obsession... drawn to the vintage photo on the cover, I've been smitten by this intriguing WWll historical fiction novel. It has relatable characters, a bit of a mystery, a touch of romance, wit, and a beautiful setting.
💙📚 #booksky
Clever, moving and full of hope, this is a story I think everyone can learn from. An absolute must-read. More below! #BookSky
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Good morning! Be the Resistance.❤️🔥
#BookSky
#WritingCommunity
#Resistance
Just a friendly reminder that you can relax and read at whatever pace you want.
It’s not a race.
It’s not a competition.
It SHOULDN’T be content fodder.
This is supposed to be fun, y’all.
#booksky #reading #tbr
Celebrate the power of female friendship, personal reinvention, and the healing power of Books.
💙📚 #booksky
#theworldneedsmoretroublesomewomen
“Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.”
—Flannery O’Connor
#quotes #writers #booksky
So many books, so little time as Frank Zappa apparently said.
💙📚#booksky
...the wonderful and vast world of books! 📚💙 #booksky
29.04.2025 18:49 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Books are teachers. Books are resistance. Books are time machines. Books are liberation.
Read more books.
💙📚#booksky
Resist the regime.
Reading books is resistance.
Buying books is resistance.
Sharing books is resistance.
Celebrating books is resistance.
Resist this regime.
"You can’t beg the world to do what you want. You can’t ask it nicely. You must force the world. You must bend it to your will."
#booksky📚💙
#libraryread
Borrow, barter, or steal a bicycle!!!...it's time to bring back the Edwardian, militant Women's Social and Political Union (Suffragettes) skills to defeat and outwit larger opponents by using SUFFRAJITSU! ....just in time for WHM in March. 🚲🥋🗡♀️
#suffrajitsu
#womenonbicyles
#womenshistorymonth2025
#booksky💙📚
19.02.2025 21:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For most of history, people didn’t read books, they listened to them. Audiobooks are not a shortcut, they’re a return to our roots. 📖 #BookSky
12.02.2025 03:03 — 👍 108 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 2Are we becoming numb
to the endless outrages?
Struggling against
normalizing
noxious,
vicious
government
policies.
Soul is
torn
a little more each day.
Heart fractures,
mind aches.
#Booksky #TheTrumpYears #poetry
The desperate and understandable human desire for normalcy is absolutely screwing our nation right now. Denial and minimizing are marching us right past the line of no return.
06.02.2025 16:29 — 👍 131 🔁 16 💬 7 📌 0
Current read 🐲🐉♀️🔥
#booksky📚
I've been seeing a lot of posts about readers trying to curb their own book buying. Let me remind you of the library. Libraries can use your support now more than ever. When you checkout library books this lets funding authorities know the library is worthy of taxpayer money. 1/3
#booksky 💙 📚
TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky
#StateMediaCensorship
One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
Reading is political.
Reading has always been political.
Your favorite characters wouldn’t just sit by and watch. They’d get up and burn some shit to the ground.
#booksky
SIX (!!) new #booksky feeds for the nerds! 🪐📚🌶️
- Literary Fiction 🖋️📚
- Historical Fiction ⏳📚
- Mystery/Thriller ⚡️📚
- Horror 🩸📚
- Non Fiction 💡📚
PLUS the BookSky Directory 💙📚 with links to ALL of the BookSky feeds and (soon!) an updated FAQ and resources for authors/publishers.
Not everyone can run or sit on a board.
Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools!
Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
Black and white photo of Octavia Butler looking intently into the camera with a shelf full of books behind her.
“Live. Hold out. Survive.
I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.”
Octavia Butler (Parable of the Sower)
#booksky #artisforliving #scifi #writing
