Finished reading: Three Holidays and a Wedding by Uzma Jalaluddin 📚
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Finished reading: I Will by Lisa Kleypas 📚
I’m re-evaluating my online presence, so in the new year I will be changing the URL for my micro.blog site to archive.kimberlyhirsh.com and don’t plan to post anything new here until I’ve figured out my next move.
Finished reading: The Merriest Misters by Timothy Janovsky 📚
📚 Authors of children’s books, I am begging you: PLEASE have a newsletter. It’s hard for librarians to keep up with all your new releases and this would make it easier.
🔖📚 Read Friendship Is My Writing Process by Ana Hein (Electric Literature).
I love this. I’ve been thinking about writing a lot lately, and this really resonates with me.
🔖📚 Read Public libraries in TX, LA, and MS are no longer protected by the First Amendment.
This is disheartening as can be and I don’t have the eloquence to explain all the ways it’s terrible.
Finished reading: After Hours at Dooryard Books by Cat Sebastian 📚
Cat Sebastian’s work unfailingly delights me and makes me feel like there’s somebody out there as awkward as me, somebody who feels things as deeply as I do. I’m so glad I read this book.
📚💬 “Farming is not for everyone, but society chooses what kind of farmers to support, and what those farmers get to grow; they’re part of a larger system.” Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal