Not me out here doing unsolicited reader’s advisory for strangers on the Internet whose newsletters I only follow because they were mentioned in a NYT article about dark academia in 2020. (Librarian: it’s a disposition as much as it’s a job.) 📚
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
Finished reading: Too Hot to Handle by Victoria Dahl 📚
New bio!
Mom, school librarian, FanLIS scholar. Self-appointed Pokémon Professor. I love books, crafting, performing, and video games. 🖖🏻🌈♿
🎮 Played Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box.
These first few are replays and I’m enjoying them thoroughly.
Ah, the sweet sound of your family rushing to play Ocarina of Time in the morning. 🎮
Finished reading: Strong Enough to Love by Victoria Dahl 📚
Finished reading: Lethal Kiss by Taylor Grothe 📚
Gory, gross, hot, romantic, and really has me vibing on monstrous women who are ready to destroy the structures that try to keep them down.
🔖 Read UNC-Chapel Hill’s graduate students feel ‘discarded’ and ’expendable’ following multiple changes.
I want to write a coherent response to this article but all I can manage is, yeah, this is an escalation of the systematic erosion of higher ed, especially in NC.
Hey! If you’re in the US and you haven’t voted yet, vote today!
🔖📚 Read Artist Jane Benson Has Some Strong Ideas About Frankenstein by Grace Edquist (Vogue).
♥️ On my most recent read of Frankenstein, I found Shelley herself in both scientist and creature. It felt like a book about being the daughter of a dead mother and the mother of dead children.