📚🗨️ “She’d never liked that phrase, diamond in the rough. All that meant was they had to cut you again and again to let the light in.” Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent
Planet Word Museum in Washington, DC
Hi there! I'm Kimberly Hirsh. My pronouns are she/ her/hers. I'm somebody's mom. I work as a school librarian. I have a PhD in information and library science. I love to read, play tabletop and video games, and make things. I used to perform in theater and improv comedy and I may one day again. I have been extremely online since 1993 and still enjoy tinkering on the web. I manage multiple chronic illnesses. I'm married to my kid's dad. We have a cat.
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Recent posts
📚🗨️ “Why raise children on the promise of magic? Why create a want in them that can never be satisfied—for revelation, for transformation—and then set them adrift in a bleak, pragmatic world?” Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent
🎧🗨️ “We don’t need to feel good to feel magical.” Lindsay Mack, “MONTHLY MEDICINE: October is Magic as Refuge,” Tarot for the Wild Soul
📚🗨️ “She read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance, science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.” Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent
Finished reading: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo 📚
This is a re-read, because when I tried to read the third in the trilogy, Dead Beat, I realized I couldn’t remember much that happened in the other two. Leigh Bardugo is so good at the job.
📚🗨️ “I want to live to grow old… I want to sit on my porch and drink foul-smelling tea and yell at passersby. I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.” Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House
🔖💀 Read Why Death Deserves Its Own Beat.
🔖💀 Read ‘I feel like I’m cancelling out her life’: the wrenching work of clearing out a parent’s home by Stephanie Wood (The Guardian).