Annie the Book

I think my padding also helped me weather chemotherapy better than some of the other people in my cohort who weren't as "padded." I had reserves to draw on when I wasn't up to eating more than a protein shake.

She quit her job to fight for her father’s freedom—and for everyone else inside Alligator Alcatraz Inside the weekly vigils that refuse to let Florida's most notorious detention camp and the immigrants detained there be forgotten.

“Week after week, I’ve come here, and I’ve felt stronger. I feel love, I feel empathy, compassion from absolute strangers.”

Arianne Betancourt quit her job to fight for her father’s freedom—and for everyone else inside Alligator Alcatraz.

Book rest, c. 1630-1670 Cut out oak board, with decorated inlay in holly and bogwood. (Victoria & Albert Museum)

Because reading equipment from the past is always nice to gaze on.

Three panels showing a bench on a small hill in London on a grey drizzly day. A man in a fedora carrying a suitcase arrives, then he is joined by a woman carrying an umbrella and a man in dark glasses reading a newspaper. They all look shifty and hurriedly converse: "Good." "Very." "Agreed." Then they all walk off down the hill. Caption: Every month, the Espionage Book Club discuss a classic work of spy fiction at a clandestine meeting. To minimise the risk of exposure, infiltration or surveillance by hostile agents, conversation is restricted to the essentials.

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

Love this for us! #libraries #librarians #tlsky #edusky www.404media.co/ai-translati...

Call your reps about this. Every time a book ban has been overturned or shut down, it's because the vast majority of people who believe in the freedom to read spoke up.
Find your reps' info at reps.fyi.

I don't know about you, but I'd feel a lot better if we were allowed to disappear into a malevolent fog once in a while and become a dark creature of folklore and legend.

The library hydra: return one book, leave with three more.

Defying Slave Hunters in Boston’s Courts - JSTOR Daily A dramatic 1836 courtroom escape shows how Black women challenged slave hunters—and Boston’s elite.

The Black women in this story are goddamn heroes: daily.jstor.org/defying-slav...

What we can learn from scientific analysis of Renaissance recipes Multispectral imaging, proteomics, historical texts yield new insights into 16th-century medical manuals.

This is fascinating! arstechnica.com/science/2026...

I love looking through old receipt books (culinary and medicinal), so I'm glad that there's yet another way to glean information from these books about how people lived, thought, ate, and treated their ailments.

Busy day at the research help desk:

* Architecture of a temple in Uruk
* Sagas of the Icelanders
* Citing an unreported district case
* Medieval head coverings and their absence
* ICD-10, but a 2025 edition

#LibraryLife

What?! If you're fighting forever, you're not fighting successfully.

I need to stop applying logic to an illogical person/regime before I give myself an aneurysm.

Asunder, by Kerstin Hall Life has never been easy for Karys. From her impoverised childhood in a remote fishing village to her marginal life in the capital of a chaotic former empire, Karys has always had to do things she …

Strange gods! A grueling race! All the feels! Kerstin Hall's novel, Asunder, destroyed me in the way only a great book can: www.abookishtype.com/2026/03/02/a...

#BookReview 💙📚

Today's random knowledge win! I remembered the German word for stories from my high school classes for a student browsing for short stories.

Whatever brain cell remembered erzählungen deserves a treat for hanging onto the word for so long.

#LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems

Jesus Christ. Can we just delete their passwords/access to everything and let them play Risk somewhere where they won't bother anyone?

Bills like KOSA and more only become more dangerous

Demand your representatives
-oppose KOSA
-oppose the App Store Accountability Act
-oppose The SCREEN Act
-section 230 reform/sunsetting
-oppose/repeal online age verification and ID laws

www.congress.gov/members/find...

if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.

I also got to riff on the Domesday book at the end of class, imagining all the clerks pissed off at kings who took and gave away lands during their reigns.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesda...

Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing Holy Sh*t tells the story of two kinds of swearing--obs…

Got to recommend one of my favorite non-fiction books during today's research workshop for the Chaucer class: Melissa Mohr's Holy Sh*t www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

#LibraryLife #BookSky

PETITION: Don't Let the Federal Government Regulate Your Reading Not one country's freedom and liberty has ever been increased by banning books.

Don't let the American government decide what books you and your family are allowed to read.

action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production.

you have until March 23rd to comment.

i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.

Last fortnight on the bookish internet US bookish folk, please consider contacting your congressional representatives and ask them to vote NO on a disturbing bill that proposes to eliminate any books with transgender and “sexually…

My latest round-up of bookish news and essays is *packed*: tons of censorship news, fantasy and solarpunk as antidotes to the world, the Codex Seraphinianus, a possibly stolen story, and the complexity of declining reading rates.

www.abookishtype.com/2026/03/01/l... 💙📚

My hot take: I kind of hate these stories. Life happens & librarians shouldn’t make people so fearful that they don’t return late books.

Also (beside the point): after this much time, that book has almost certainly been de-accessioned. I doubt it’ll be added back.

#LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”

When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.

Are you sure the narrator isn’t AI? I had to stop listening to a book because of the things it did to acronyms.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

For this and everything else:

IMPEACH. REMOVE FROM OFFICE. PROSECUTE.

no war no borders no cops no prisons no to all of this shit