Michelle Glatt

How perfect! Happy Sweet Sixteen! 💞🎉🎂😈

Remember when Biden bungled a comment and it sounded like he called all MAGA garbage, quickly corrected and it was still a 3 day news story?

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand

Canned green beans
Roadhouse
Night Moves by Bob Seger

I love it when an audiobook hold comes in at just the right time! I'm driving 2+ hours to the @illibraryassoc.bsky.social conference tomorrow, and it's FINALLY my turn for Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab.

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

HELL NO

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Sept reading stats

Sept reading stats

Monthly Reading - Sept. Edition

You can tell it's back-to-school time because all my books are MG/YA. (Just slower with adult books right now)

Standouts:
Safiyyah's War - fresh WWII HF
The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman - all the feels
Next Stop - GN that took a surprisingly deep turn

#booksky

He's PERFECT for this! ❤️

August 2025 Reads

August 2025 reading stats

August 2025 reading stats

Monthly Reading Stats
Better Late Than Never Edition
August 2025

American Rapture - 5⭐️ gory and horrifying dystopian nightmare

This Perfect Day (1970) - traditional dystopia from the author of Rosemary's Baby & The Stepford Wives, which imagines a central computer running the world....

#booksky

Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…

Sesame Street will be putting a huge collection of episodes on YouTube starting in January 2026

This is a fantastic way to educate children

It’s a form of resistance.

Shows like Sesame Street teach love, tolerance, acceptance & more.

These lessons are crucial for the long fight ahead.

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!”

Cities:

I assume, of course, that you have already read Wake Up and Open Your Eyes and the fact that you are still saying this means we should all be very, very afraid 😱😱😱

Do not come, Donald Trump.

You are neither wanted nor needed here in Illinois.

Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."

Book cover: My Ex, the Antichrist by Craig DiLouie

Road-tripping allllll the way across Kansas has been made more bearable by this fun book. No offense, Kansas--I am just ready to be home.
#booksky #readmorehorror #summerreading

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My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

Good grief! Get a load of this Starter Pack for some of Blue Sky's grief horror authors. Sub to as many or few as you'd like and if you have a grief horror book out or coming, let me know if you want to be added!

go.bsky.app/JvzGUmd

Oh, that's tough. A tie? Angel Down is by one of my all-time favorite authors and is a horrifying novel of WWI. It comes out at the end of the month. And Lula Dean's...is a very timely book about censorship in a small southern town. The audiobook was excellent! And it's on hoopla....

Seven book covers--books Ibreas in June. The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest Angel Down Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books The Spellshop Four Eyes The Listeners Overgrowth

Reading stats 7 books read 1179 pages 34.13 hours 4.46 average rating

Reading pie charts for genre, length, neat, etc.

Here's me, remembering to post once a month when my @the.storygraph wrap-up is ready....

#summereading #booksky

McGovern: "So I say to my Republican colleagues -- what's wrong with you people? In this bill you provide a $2 billion tax break for gun silencers, but you cut SNAP benefits for vulnerable families. Jesus Christ!"

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Book covers of current reads The Spellshop & Overgrowth

Currently reading:

The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst - for book club - cozy fantasy with librarian mc

Overgrowth by Mira Grant - because she's a favorite - alien invasion sci-fi and the aliens are plant-ish

#BookSky #Storygraph

Happy Friday the 13th!😱

Today they have crossed a deep red line.

We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.”

--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater

Illinois ranks among safest states for LGBTQ+ community, new report finds. Here's why Illinois ranked among the safest states for LGBTQ+ people in a newly released list. Find out why states like Arkansas and Louisiana were ranked last.

While some states are taking away the rights of our LGBTQ+ community, we're protecting them here in our state.

Illinois will always be a beacon of equality and hope for all. There's still work to do, but we have your back.