Finished reading: When Strangers Marry by Lisa Kleypas 📚

Finished reading: The Border of Paradise by Esmé Weijun Wang 📚🎧

Esmé Weijun Wang writes beautiful prose. This book is intense and upsetting; over and over again I found myself sympathizing with a character only to be appalled by then when perspective shifted away from them and to someone else. Read the NPR review before picking this one up.

Finished reading: Lady Sophia’s Lover by Lisa Kleypas 📚

Finished reading: Where Dreams Begin by Lisa Kleypas 📚

Somehow both low-conflict and high-angst.

Kelly J. Baker and Book Riot continue to do critical reporting on the current administration’s impact on the Institute of Museum and Library Services in today’s piece about Freedom Trucks. 📚

📚 I kind of want to have this quote from Anne Trubek as a poster, cross-stitch, or tattoo:

conceive of reading as pure, unadulterated pleasure. A hobby, a way to shift gears, a way to get away from the damned phone, a thing you can do in bed, an outlet for curiosity. A way to counter loneliness, a way to soothe, free therapy. Conceive of it in any way you can that strips it of whatever pressures, should’s, competitions you may have placed on it.

Finished reading: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 📚

Finished reading: The Season by Sarah MacLean 📚

I just love Sarah MacLean so much.

🔖📚 Read Duke cut librarians. It never told the faculty they worked with.

This is one example of many where the people with whom library staff collaborate didn’t have the opportunity to advocate for them.

Finished reading: Waking Up With the Duke by Lorraine Heath 📚

So great.