Kate Baker

If you want to see more of what I’m reading, I am on StoryGraph!

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Cover collage from StoryGraph: It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba Earthsea: The Other Wind by Ursula K. LeGuin Space Opera by Catherynne Valente A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldtree Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers The Double Tax by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor by Shaenon Garrity and Christopher Baldwin The Nefarious Nights of Willowweep Manor by Shaenon Garrity and Christopher Baldwin The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeepping by Sangu Mandanna The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson James by Percival Everett The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire

I haven’t checked in about #25booksin2025 for a while.

I had a slow reading start to the year, but I started reading e-books on my phone on Libby, and it turns out I will read a lot of books that way. I crushed my goal.

Here is everything I read last month! I got some spooky books for October.

I had this same problem too!

How should one get started with learning how to mend their own clothes?

Growing Rosa Blanca Books! Help Rosa Blanca Books open its first permanent storefront and expand its reach within a burgeoning community in the Bay Area.

Contra Costa County! There is a Kickstarter to help support a bookstore pop-up to establish a permanent home.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gro...

Growing Rosa Blanca Books! Help Rosa Blanca Books open its first permanent storefront and expand its reach within a burgeoning community in the Bay Area.

Contra Costa County! There is a Kickstarter to help support a bookstore pop-up to establish a permanent home.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gro...

Pumpernickel everything is the best.

Bike East Bay is hiring a Community Engagement Director.

This is a really fun position working with our amazing community and for a very impactful organization.

I’m leading the hiring and will work closely with the person we hire. Please apply or spread the word!

All through October, read a free preview of THE NEFARIOUS NIGHTS OF WILLOWWEEP MANOR on the Simon Teen site!
simonteen.com/free-reads/

Albany and El Cerrito Weren't Known for Protest ... Until Now In two quiet Bay Area towns, organizers for Palestine are getting loud — and forming deep friendships along the way.

My first story for @coyotemedia.org is about the towns I grew up in, small cities that even I dismissed as being "too quiet" or "in a bubble."

Read about Albany and El Cerrito for Palestine, a group of neighbors that have created a joyful, mutual aid collective while organizing for Palestine.

I love the Thin Man so much. We watch it every New Year’s Day.

Since this whole debate is still happening, and since we are still not listening I will summarize what I understand the argument to be in the Lingua Franca of white nerds: Lord of the Rings analogies.

How should we feel if they voted “present”?

Are there a lot more monarch butterflies this year?

It was a fun event! We hope to catch another one.

It was very toddler-friendly and the kiddo had fun, though we did have to leave early for bedtime.

A group of roller skaters, some in black shirts and some in green, crouch on an indoor track.

We went to Roller Derby today! We saw the San Francisco Rolling Dead face off against the Oakland Outlaws at the Richmond Memorial Auditorium. My favorite part was when there was a pause for technical difficulties and both teams joined together in a conga line around the track.

Doxcare A step-by-step guide explaining how to protect yourself from online stalkers, why it's important, and what to do if you are targeted for doxxing.

If you are on the TPUSA list of professors or are an otherwise visible left academic, I strongly recommend reviewing your digital footprint. Is your address public information? What about your family members?

crimethinc.com/2020/08/26/d...

My sister, who is much cooler than me, plays bass in a punk band!

You Are the Wilds by TheOtherTracy a solo game about being the world itself

At dawn, you rise.

Light scatters across you, highlighting moments of growth and renewal. Even catastrophic events bring about change, bring about the future.

You are the surge of wave and the whisper of wind.

You Are the Wilds

theothertracy.itch.io/you-are-the-...

#TTRPG

Newsom: We need to make Bay Area public transit so bad that everyone who has another option says “I’m not gonna use this.”

(No, he didn’t actually say this, but unless he follows through with his promise to provide a $750 million gap loan to transit, that’s what his actions will say.)

Heeeeeeey yall!

That "if you hate AI you understand racists" guy sure is annoying, right?

Why make them famous for being an idiot? I am seeing more reposts of this person than I am of legit awesome ppl, and I hate that.

Stop dunking, stop "arguing", sto

Block block block and move on, plz.

Yeah, we’re going to talk to our kiddo’s pediatrician to see if there’s a way for him to get it.

California.

My CVS had the new version, yes!

That’s rough! I hope it is available soon.

Also, boy is the group of people in the vaccine waiting area a consistent group of maskers.

I got my Covid and flu shots today at CVS! There was a yes/no question when I made the appointment about whether I had a condition that put me at higher risk for getting Covid, but they didn’t ask for any more detail than that.

Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms|Paperback 2021 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist 2021 New York Public Library Best Books for Teens 2021 Cybils Award Winner 2022 GLAAD Media Award Winner 2022 Lambda Literary Award Finalist A sweet, queer teen r...

Hi! I write all kinds of boos, but the favorite thing I've done is a cute, short graphic novel about a cis girl and a trans girl who join the cheerleading team and fall in love!
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cheer-up-c...

Color the Town Oakland Public Library Coloring Book Featuring 18 Libraries from across Oakland! The Oakland Free Library Golden Gate Branch is featured on the cover.

The Lakeview library with a rainbow in the back and ducks in the front, done in black outline for coloring in.

This is very cute from the Oakland Public Library: a coloring book of all the branches!