Submitted my dissertation to the university. Ordered Ebony Elizabeth Thomas’s The Dark Fantastic from Rofhiwa Bookcafé to celebrate. 📚 📝🎉

Finished reading: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo 📚

Finished reading: You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing by John Scalzi 📚

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 💬📚