I just finished Leigh Bardugo’s Siege and Storm and I’m so glad I’ve got the next one ready to go tonight. I’m not saying I’m going to stay up all night reading it, but I’m not saying I’m NOT going to stay up all night reading it. 📚

Finished reading: Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo 📚

Honored today to deliver a pre-recorded guest lecture on Reader’s Advisory for Dr. Megan Threats’s Reference Sources & Services class. I made the lecture & related links available on a RA page on my website. Pretty sure I could teach a full semester on this topic. 📚

My kid’s over here telling his dad a Magic Treehouse/Wild Kratts crossover story. 💗💓📚📺

Want to read: The Writer’s Practice by John Warner 📚

Want to read: When Women Invented Television by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong 📚

“The academy is not designed to accommodate women, families, or the demands of modern life… Settling for mediocrity in everything but academic work is an insufficient solution to juggling work and family life.” - Dr. Rachel Leventhal-Weiner, Succeeding Outside the Academy 💬📚

“[The graduate program] hinges on a level of detachment from the corporeal, on a laser focus and dedication to one’s intellectual development.” - Dr. Rachel Leventhal-Weiner, Succeeding Outside the Academy 💬📚

“Lives matter more than careers. Focus on building the life you want rather than pursuing the career that people think you should have.” - Dr. Kelly J. Baker in Succeeding Outside the Academy 💬📚

Finished reading: The Freelance Academic by Katie Rose Guest Pryal 📚

Want to read: How Humans Learn by Joshua R. Eyler 📚

Want to read: The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey 📚

Want to read: Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science by Anna Reser and Leila McNeill 📚

Just finished the introduction to SUCCEEDING OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY. Excited to read the rest. It seems like having 14 informational interviews in a book. 📚

Hello today I think my ideal job would be to read books and then write essays (not straight up reviews) about those books. Sometimes a group of books or a pairing, like I might try reading Monster She Wrote and Women and Other Monsters. 📚📝

I finished reading Mona Awad’s BUNNY last night. I can’t even write a review of it because I don’t have enough words to convey all the important things about it. It’s beautifully written, sad and weird. It completely blew my mind. I’m so happy to have read it. 📚

Finished reading: Bunny by Mona Awad 📚

Finished reading: Keep Going by Austin Kleon 📚

“Art Monsters are not necessary or glamorous and they are not to be condoned, pardoned, or emulated.” - Austin Kleon, Keep Going, p. 124 📚

Want to read: Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South by Regina Bradley 📚

Want to read: Bookish Broads by Lauren Marino 📚

Want to read: We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman 📚

Finished reading: If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio 📚

Want to read: Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee 📚

🔖 In Back-Talking The Tone Police: Book People Are Not Your Enemy, Tika Vateri says all the things I couldn’t articulate in response to Joanna Mang’s We Have to Save the Books from the Book People. 📚