Kelsey | wife•mama•reader

the 80s is the only correct answer. 1980 was definitely 20 years ago, because i’m very much hip and cool🤪🙃😭

They try to silence us, hold us back, and strip away our rights, but women always fight back. This #WomensHistoryMonth, we’re doubling down, because when women lead, we all move forward.

Graphic depicting books read in February: When Women Were Dragons, The Ancient and the Amber, Bloodguard, Twilight of Democracy, Butcher & Blackbird, and The Only One Left.

February might’ve been chaotic in the real world, but inside my head it was glorious😅😅 #booksky #readingchallenge #fable #realityisoverrated

One of Norway's largest fuel companies just announced that they will no longer refuel US Navy vessels after Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy.

“It made us sick... We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example.”

This definitely convinced me!!! I can’t wait to check it out!

Chapter 10 of The Only One Left by Riley Sager with the text blurred out.

Book of the Day is The Only One Left by Riley Sager! The more I read, the more curious I become and just can’t put it down!! #booksky #bookoftheday #booktok

Worst. Episode. EVER.

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.

Have to check out Heartless Hunter! I just finished Onyx Storm and I am not okay 😭😭😭😭

Needing some fantasy book recs!! Wanting to read about fictional totalitarian governments instead of real ones😅😭 #booksky #fantasy #romance #romantasy

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

With Handmaids Tale people focus on the shock of the mass rapes in the book and the show.

But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.

This is fascism.

"The revolution about to be televised you picked the right time but the wrong guy"

KENDRICK 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

#superbowl

a million.

Infographic on the novel When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill, describing it as feminist, thought-provoking, imaginative, and real.

Halfway through this masterpiece and it has already had such an impact on me! #currentread #booksky #booktok

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

January was good to me!! Well, it was good to my fiction-loving heart at least. #booksky #januaryreads #readingchallenge #booktok

Tweet from MapQuest: fyi MapQuest is NOT renaming the Gulf of Mexico - not because of politics but because we haven't updated our maps in like 15 years and don't remember how to do it 3:01 PM • Jan 29, 2025

Heroes

Watching these red states attack federal funding—apparently not realizing that most of their states are broke and would completely collapse without it—will always be hilarious to me.

“Give it all back to the states!”

Sit down, Cletus. Your state can’t buy sandwiches for kids.

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...

Paperback copy of House of Frank by Kay Synclaire

Lunch break means putting a dent in my current read! #booksky #houseoffrank #currentread

A newish friend invited me for coffee for the second time.

We met and talked for over 3 hours.

My brain:
Yeah, but they don't actually like you, though.

Anyone else?

I’m adding that one to my TBR as well! I’ve heard good things!

Current read infographic depicting the Final Girls book cover, along with identifying characteristics of the book: thriller, fast-paced. Included is the trigger warning list of violence, substance abuse, and death.

Book of the Day! Or, errrrr, Night?? Final Girls by Riley Sanger is a Libby read that happened to get thrown in to my TBR due to an impulsive hold request and sheer availability! Can’t say I’m complaining though! #booksky #booktok #finalgirls #thriller

As a father of five kids, I totally agree with this evergreen post.

Had this list on my mind a lot today while teaching about current events.

I’ve been summoned?? History teacher who is trying to teach students to think for themselves, and learn the truth behind the history books!