📚 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 📚
🔖📚 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: Pleasures of a Notorious Gentleman by Lorraine Heath 📚
Today is a great day to tell your representative to support library funding in next year’s budget (FY26). Let’s be sure Congress comes back from recess to find a flood of messages supporting library funding. 📚
💬📚 “How many times could a mother’s heart break? An infinite number. Each time her children were hurt.” Lorraine Heath, Pleasures of a Notorious Gentleman
Finished reading: Passions of a Wicked Earl by Lorraine Heath 📚
Lorraine Heath is just so reliably excellent.
Finished reading: The Invisible Parade by Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio 📚
I’m very obsessed with this Día de Muertos picture book with an Own Voices illustrator. So much of the storytelling is in the images and it’s a gorgeous collaboration. Highly recommend for reading around Día de Muertos or anytime. 💀
