Jen.

Only if I stub my toe.

• Medieval noble carrying a torch through the castle corridors as the feast echoes in the great hall

• Tortured Victorian poet wandering the mansion by candlelight, weeping for a love lost to consumption

• Me, using my phone flashlight to reach the bathroom at 4am without stubbing my pinky toe

"But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it."

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Idk, looks kind of … cheesy.

Screenshot of Alexander Skarsgård as Murderbot

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Day 14

I ordered a fresh copy of the pb when our HC died earlier this year. It went into the stacks, not the new shelf. And it’s been checked out almost constantly. I literally haven’t even seen it. I ordered a 2nd copy and two each of the others this week when our fiscal year turned over. ❤️🎉

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Day 13

Joy in the Morning by Betty Smith

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Day 12

Cover image for This Time of Darkness, showing two kids in jumpsuits exiting a tunnel onto grass

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Day 11

Creepy Santa doll with the caption “Could tariffs ruin Christmas” snipped from cnn webpage

Somebody at CNN needs to read How the Grinch Stole Christmas…

How to Keep House while Drowning original self-published book cover

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Day 10

Drop-Side Cribs - FindLaw While convenient, drop-side cribs proved to be dangerous and even lethal, earning a ban in 2011. Learn about the dangers of drop-side cribs, alternatives, the CPSC, and much more at FindLaw.com.

The listing says the contents convey with the building, but — it’s illegal to sell/resell drop side cribs. Those cribs killed 32 babies & toddlers between 2001 and 2010, and they’re banned now. Hope they trash the one in the (haunted) basement room before the sale.

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We finished Hot Frosty, but I realized partway through that I wasn’t going to be happy with the plot: a fully-realized adult getting involved with someone who…wasn’t. He could learn quickly, but there was so much he didn’t know that he came off childlike/innocent/new, and it was creepy.

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It’s gross but a little satisfying for me when I manage to cut it off and clear the bar. I nominate cleaning out the little green machine brush, hose, and dirty water tank after a spot cleanup.

No … but I’m gonna 😁

It feels like the 52nd day of February, if that helps.

I have wanted to live in a church, too, ever since reading Wait Till Helen Comes as a kid.

Depends on the library. Subscriptions vary, and I know of several libraries dropping hoopla because of the cost and the amount of low-quality materials in its catalog (for example, AI-generated work and summaries of books that trick people into thinking they’re getting the actual book).

It came about because of an Irish dance instructional video — Celtic Feet with Colin Dunne. It made my housemate and me laugh when he said things like “similar to what we’ve just done,” and we added - “Done. That’s my name. Dunne.”

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If only

I mean, it was a thing … it was a math error! 😆 But yes — yay for pretty and useful replacement tools. Favorite spatulas are hard to replace.

A Memory Called Empire book cover

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Day 9
I never promised consecutive days.

Nonfiction has fluctuated, but as an example — the budget for the 600s (cookbooks, business books, parenting books, health books) went from about $9000 to about $1800. And the price of books has gone up.

State and national awards. Best-of lists. Budgets are so tight. If my memory is correct, our physical fiction budget is about 2/3 of what it was pre-pandemic.

Positive reviews in Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus, or Publisher’s Weekly. Lacking those, word of mouth that results in multiple requests from their actual patrons. Most libraries have collection development policies that guide what they should and should not purchase.

I feel like Dooneese should have been relegated to the “sketches that aged poorly” segment. It wouldn’t be okay to mock the character if she were a real person, and it feels icky in a sketch. #snl50

Don’t let society convince you that the best thing you can offer is the most expensive thing.

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

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Day 8