Becky Spratford

Hey peeps, many library cards will give you free access to Kanopy! Here are some horror movies they have in their library: The Vourdalak, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Train to Busan, Exhuma, Let the Right One In, The Wicker Man, Birth/Rebirth, Titane, Late Night With the Devil, Ganja & Hess.

Hey. You don’t have to get me anything for Xmas this year, but if you did want to get me something, please preorder CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD 4.

It’s really good, I promise: linktr.ee/adamcesare

I promise I'm not going to complain about this anymore (today) but Readers' Advisory and Collection Development go. together. THEY GO TOGETHER! You don't have one without the other! If you're buying the books but nobody knows about them, you fail. If you want to tell everyone about the cool books

LOL

Yes you do!!! Can’t wait.

Hard agree.

On this Krampus Night, revisit the scariest Christmas book of all. Tomorrow is the Feast of St. Nicholas, a celebration of the patron saint of children, travelers, sailors, toymakers, broadcasters, the falsely accused, repentant thieves, Greece, archers, unmarried…

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Attack of the Best Lists 2025: LibFaves 25 and you can participate! All library workers! We want your picks!

[I know didn't give you much warning, but all you need today is one title and you know you have one in mind. The you can work on the other 9 later]:

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The Starving Saints From the nationally bestselling author of The Luminous …

Day 1 of 10 sharing #LibFaves25 (only horror titles edition).These are not in any specific order.

THE STARVING SAINTS by @caitlinstarling.com might have flown under your radar, but it has stayed with me all year.

transfixing, highly unnerving, 3 povs. More:

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Watch my feed for titles every day, but also I will gather them all for you at the end of the year as well, plus I will have another horror year in review article via The Lineup soon.

It begins today! #LibFaves25. When library workers from all over share their top 10 reads of the year; 1 a day for 10 days. Titles in all caps so volunteers can count them. I will be using the opportunity to highlight only horror titles so that they get included in the final tally.

Library folks! Starting today (12/8) count down your 10 favorite books published in 2025, 1 per day, through 12/17. TITLE in caps, tag #LibFaves25! I’ll be the tally taker today and I’ve got an awesome crew to help me out the other days. At the end, we’ll share the top titles and full list. 📚🩷

Fern Michaels, Prolific Author of Romance Novels, Dies at 92

Oh wow. RIP www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/o...

Great thread from a bookseller.

We are so back this week!

Talking Scared returns on Tuesday with the STATE OF THE HORROR NATION review.

The panel is @emilyhughes.bsky.social, george_reads and @annarosereads.bsky.social - covering all their highlights of 2025 horror.

At nearly 3 hours, it should get you closer to Christmas.

Right now is hard. Right now is scary. For many, right now is downright bad. But you're not alone. Join us next Saturday at 7 PM EST to fight horror with horror and raise money for the American Civil Liberties Union. Please help spread the word by sharing!

Where: www.youtube.com/@Pippinacious

Hello all, @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social is having a fundraiser, and we're looking for Chicago-related prize donations from stores, publishers, creators, and the like. As Lit editor, I'm focusing on books, naturally, but as an arts and culture site, anything goes. Let me know if you're interested!

Still looking for writers, publishers, and others who can donate to this worthy cause! Chicago writers, if you can spare an autographed copy of your book(s) that would be terrific. Natch, we'll add a shout out and link to your site.

| Library Journal Selecting the best books of the year is an undertaking of great pleasure, as remembering wonderful reads is its own lovely pastime. Our list of 100 Editors’ Picks of 2025 highlights titles we never ti...

So @libraryjournal.bsky.social did their Best Books lists in a different way this year: Editors' Picks, Starred Reviews, Best Covers, and Entry Points!

RA for All Roadshow is Wrapping Up 2025 and Looking into 2026:

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Here's a lovely photo of a plethora of hand-sewn fabric art creatures. There's a watermelon creature with a red face, eight black seed-like eyes, and a wide mouth with five sharp teeth. There's a white ghost trinket bag covered with purple embroidered flowers. She has a gray face, sparkly black eyes and a little frown. There's a strawberry creature with three bulbous green eyes. There's a watermelon ghost, and a black creature with sharp teeth wearing a bulbous eye earring. There's a large purple creature with many yellow eyes and an open mouth, with a little green creature popping her head out. All the creatures are sitting on green fur and there's a galaxy print fabric in the background.

For as low as $3, you can sign up for my Patreon. This helps support me as a writer, a fabric artist, an unofficial town sorcerer, and a human being. My goal for the day is one new patron.

www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

Trying to be clever/creative with bee themed names for library spaces and resources (like the newsletter) is hard for this lady in the year 2025.

Will gladly take suggestions.

!!!!!!! ❤️

I don't care if a non-disabled person accesses a disability accommodation for the same reason I don't care if a child whose parents are rich gets free lunch at school. We don't need to means test being a kind person. I have better things to do with my time than be a cop over social services.

Done!

@bemeredith.bsky.social

I am spending the day here with a dear friend who is a professional potter. If you live in Chicagoland, and want to support artists and small businesses, this is a not to miss event:

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John Langan (@johnlangan.bsky.social) Writer. All monsters, all the time. Filthy liberal.

Whoops, and @johnlangan.bsky.social

The 10 best books of 2025: Censorship, crime and compassion From “Clam Down” to “Murderland,” these are the 10 books out of my tall stack of best books of the year that I couldn’t get out of my mind. How do you pick yours?

The Chicago Tribune’s 10 best books of 2025: a bit of horror, a little graphic biography, a resonant history lesson (@risenc.bsky.social) and a touch of Chicago true crime www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/03/t...

New podcast day! Here's ep. 379A: Janet Rich Edwards discusses CANTICLE. Set in 13th-century Bruges, this debut novel follows a young woman’s explorations of faith, agency, and love among a community of fiercely independent women. @spiegelandgrau.bsky.social

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Why I'm Reading: Persona and Itch! via Booklist The December 2025 issue of Booklist features two reviews by me. Both are excellent choices for all library audiences.  As usual, here on the...

My reviews for January 2026 books are coming fast and furious now. Persona and ITCH! in the Dec 2025 ussue of @ala-booklist.bsky.social

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