Want to read: Blade of Secrets by Tricia Levenseller 📚

📚 I first read SHADOW AND BONE 5 years ago, on a hammock at the beach, when I was 7 months pregnant. I was too impatient to do a re-read before the show, but I hadn’t read the other Grishaverse books so I refreshed my memory with the Wikipedia plot summary and powered through SIEGE AND STORM, RUIN AND RISING, and SIX OF CROWS just in time for the show. I’m reading CROOKED KINGDOM in a more leisurely fashion.

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Alina’s connection with Morozova’s stag really resonates with me because my last name is Yiddish for stag. What’s a bookish connection to your name?

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[A silver stag silhouette pendant sitting on top of a paperback copy of Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone which rests on top of a crocheted wrap in green, blue, and purple.]

I started a bookstagram account. You can find it at kimberlyhirsh.reads if you want to follow along. Right now this almost 20 year old picture of me kissing books is the only post over there.

Here are seven bookish facts about me:

💀 My favorite book since 7th grade has been Piers Anthony’s ON A PALE HORSE. I love that it’s about what it’s like to BE Death.

📓 The most recent F2F bookish event I attended was when @austinkleon visited Flyleaf Books on tour for KEEP GOING. That was > 2 years ago.

🚪I love stories with hidden doors that lead to secret rooms. I think the most recent of these I’ve read is @erinmorgenstern’s THE STARLESS SEA.

📕 When I was in middle school, I volunteered as a summer program assistant at my local library.

🌳 My current favorite reading spot is a hammock on my back deck.

🎒 I used to be a middle school librarian.

💒 I’ve only been to the Library of Congress once that I can remember. It was a spiritual experience.

📚 Your turn! Let me know a bookish fact about you!

Finished reading: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May 📚

Want to read: THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOME ECONOMICS How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live by Danielle Dreilinger 📚

Added “serious Belle vibes 📚” to my bio.

🔖📚 Austin Kleon writes today about [wintering and dormancy] (https://austinkleon.com/2021/05/04/wintering-and-dormancy/), quoting Katherine May’s book Wintering. I’m reading the book right now. What I didn’t know before reading but appreciate is that May is writing about leaving academia.

Want to read: Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture by Henry Jenkins 📚

Frank Oz, on Miss Piggy:

She has a lot of vulnerability, which she has to hide, because of her need to be a superstar.

Quoted in Of Muppets and Men by Christopher Finch 💬📚📺🐸

Kermit, while he is no saint, has achieved a wonderful equilibrium in which a common sense and a hunger for the absurd are nicely balanced. Were he to represent common sense only, he would be a prig; if he represented only hunger for the absurd, he would just be another of the show’s eccentrics. It is the fact that he has managed to embrace both extremes that enables him to function as he does.

Christopher Finch, Of Muppets and Men 💬📚📺🐸