I'm so sorry! I never got to meet your dad, but I've known for years from your stories how much your dad loved you and you loved him.

Fiction Highlights:
Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine
James by Percival Everett
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo
Babel by R.F. Kuang
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Astonishing Color of After by Emily X. R. Pan

Nonfiction Highlights:
A Wilder Shore by Camille Peri
Bluestockings by Susannah Gibson
Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan
A Walk In The Park by Kevin Fedarko
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Indelible City by Louisa Lim
Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan Slaght
Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes

I read 71 books in 2025 (about 2x the number I read on average), partly due to lots of time on airplanes and partly due to a need to escape the dumpster fire that was the US in 2025. Over half the books were written by authors who weren't cis men, and slightly less than half were written by POCs.

So by almost done, you only have 7 drafts to go?

I'm so sorry <3 <3

I'm so sorry! I know how much you loved her and she loved you

A Seattle Public Library Book Bingo card with 7 categories filled in: SAL Speaker (Tell Me Everything), Grief (Martyr!), New-to-You Format (Autobiography of Red), Found Family (The Ministry of Time), Resistance (The Rediscovery of America), Monsters (The Buffalo Hunter Hunter), and Read in Public (The Vapors)

Book Bingo Update: 7 books down, 16 to go!

2025 Adult Book Bingo Every summer we partner with Seattle Arts & Lectures (SAL) for Book Bingo, our summer reading program for adults and teens. In 2025, King County Library System (KCLS) is joining the fun!

I look forward to the @spl.org summer book bingo every year, but this year the list of categories is especially 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Those amazing librarians are pulling NO punches and I love it!

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