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ZB’s legal team better get on it. Is this retaliatory for his new clip? 😬

Cover of cry by Alisa Valdés showing a girl’s silhouette and a lightning strike

Cry By Alisa Valdés. Oct. 2025. Published by Arte Publico/Piñata. Sixteen-year-old Grace Martínez cannot believe her luck when physicist Carl Sagan is the first person she sees after dying from a lightning strike. Unfortunately, her hero informs her that she will not remain deceased and “don’t fight the work,” forcefully returning her to her electrified body. Though disappointed not to receive more answers, Grace instead gains the horrifying ability to see and communicate with spiorads, spirits of those who have died but cannot move on. One even lives with her, another 16-year-old named Mohammad, whose death was deemed suicide (though Grace begins to suspect his death may have been something more sinister). Before her friends can help her solve this problem, she will have to convince them that she’s not just hallucinating, while also navigating her father’s closed-minded and controlling new wife and her own bookstore job, where she works for spirited, elderly Milagros. As Grace discovers who she can and cannot trust, not to mention that her guardian spirit is none other than the legendary La Llorona, she finds herself at the center of a dangerous investigation. Caustic and sharp-witted, Grace is an extremely compelling character with a strong, memorable voice. A little romance, a lot of mysteries, complex and nuanced characters, and a ghostly canine companion meld for an unputdownable ride with plenty of modern social commentary. — Allie Stevens

I don’t repost my reviews here super often, but I’m afraid this book is going to fly under the radar and I can’t stand that. Cry by @mizalisa.bsky.social is one of the best YA books I’ve read this year, and maybe ever. Pitch-perfect in character and tone, and so extremely compelling. Don’t miss it!

Are libraries famous now

I just want a word with the muses cutting the lifespan strings of my kid’s pets.

Gray and white long-haired cat with many whiskers sits on a table and stares with either concern or menace, your guess is as good as mine

Meeper (officially Souris, but if you have cats you know how it is) only wants me when I’m sad. Does she want to make me feel better or does her soul feed on the misery of others? Who can say, really?

This morning, in just a few hours, actually. I don’t know what day it is anymore, this hideously difficult weekend shouldn’t count

Tomorrow morning, we have to help my 9 year old say goodbye to her babycat, who is only 4 and has suspected lymphoma. It happened very, very slowly, and then all at once, as these things do. I have no words for how proud I am of my child’s selflessness and moral clarity through utter heartbreak. 💔💗❤️‍🩹

It took me way too long to see a snake and not a snake-shaped crack in the concrete. What’s actually cracked is my brain, I think

YAY YAY YAY

Hiding away bibliographies at the exact point in time they are filling up with hallucinated slop references seems like a perfect plan that has no downsides if you ask me.

… eew

Chuck tingle says wow it is great to exist right above Molly jong-fast saying I am filled with dread. Apropos.

2025 in a nutshell

Proposed Franklin County Prison Looks To Be an ICE Site - For AR People Action According to the local sheriff, the Franklin County prison seems likely to house ICE detainees. Residents want no part in it.

Surprising just about nobody, Joe Profiri met with ICE agents at the site of the proposed Franklin County mega prison.

Sarah wants to illegally detain and disappear our neighbors, it seems. This makes what was already a bad deal even worse.

forarpeople.org/ice-detentio...

The number of teenagers my teacher husband and I interact with who act like we’re some kind of revolutionaries because we treat them like whole people is… disturbing, at a minimum.

Hello Sunshine is a good book, and by that I mean haunting and illuminating and also just plain gorgeous. I reviewed it here (and gave it a star!): www.booklistonline.com/products/981...

endlessly grateful to exist, to trot with my buds and share stories. to look up at the moon and think about everyone else who has looked before. to have taste buds. to watch the seasons change. so many wonderful things are just GIVEN to us by existence, it can be hard to remember to say thanks

The Prison Next Door - Bolts How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered residents in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.

NEW: Arkansas announced plans for a mega prison in a rural town. Since then, locals are organizing to stop it.

At first they opposed it in their own town. But some now say they've taken a more critical look at how we incarcerate in the country.

make time for this new feature, you won't regret it

This makes me curious where the AR contingency plans to house those they “arrest.” I just watched 3 hours of testimony about a new prison today, much of which centered on the “crisis” of lack of prison space already in the state.

So, librarians, how are we incorporating our knowledge that the news media is engaging in widespread blackouts of current political protests into our reference/instruction work?

It’s something that I accidentally reveal occasionally, usually to the stupefied amusement of whoever hears it

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law.

May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

My voice has been threatening to go out all week, and it’s finally gone. My son and niece are arguing about whether she’s speaking English (ofc she is), baby nephew (9m) is… singing? loudly, eldest is bossing; all 4 need to be prepped to go to my MIL for the day. Oh, Friday of a short week. Finally.

Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."

FCC chair teams up with Ted Cruz to block Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolkids Ted Cruz’s anti-hotspot bill stalled, but FCC is ending Wi-Fi program on its own.

FCC and Ted Cruz identify a key vulnerability to MAGA rule: school children in rural areas with internet access. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

I mean… this is basically my theory of my career. It sucks that it’s so financially untenable currently that I’m even considering leaving it because I love it. Deeply. It makes me healthier and happier in many ways.

All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.

🥰😭💕😱🥰

I don’t use AI because I’m infuriated for the artists and writers and philosophers who’ve had their intellectual property stolen.

I also hate boring and impersonal shit. If someone can’t be bothered to write something, why should I be bothered to read it?