📚🗨️ “Now he had to go back to being himself, and that was hard—it got harder to do that every year. It was easier to be brave when you were someone else.” Stephen King, It

Finished reading: Officer Off Limits by Tessa Bailey 📚

Happy Bookstore Romance Day! 📚💓

📚 If you want to read more and with more focused attention, maybe try one of these programs: reading training using progressive overload designed by librarian Hana Lee Goldin or couch to 5k for reading with author Naomi Alderman.

Finished reading: Batgirl: Year One (2023 Edition) by Chuck Dixon 📚

I’m doing a deep dive on one of pop culture’s favorite librarians. Did you know that, like me, Batgirl has a PhD in information & library science?

🔖📚 Read Navigating the Brain Poisoning of Book Censorship by Kelly Jensen.

A great piece about how even fighting censorship can prime you to start looking for content in books that isn’t there.

Finished reading: The Shining by Stephen King 📚

Saw someone comment they’d heard Emily Wilson’s Odyssey translation is feminist and before they try it they’d like to start with a more faithful translation. I wonder how much readers understand about the creative choices translators have to make and challenges to being “faithful.” 📚

Finished reading: His Risk to Take by Tessa Bailey 📚

Finished reading: Firestarter by Stephen King 📚

I know a lot of Stephen King books are considered scary, but so many of them, including this one, make me sad. Compulsively readable as King always is.