Finished reading: The Merriest Misters by Timothy Janovsky 📚
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📚 Authors of children’s books, I am begging you: PLEASE have a newsletter. It’s hard for librarians to keep up with all your new releases and this would make it easier.
🔖📚 Read Friendship Is My Writing Process by Ana Hein (Electric Literature).
I love this. I’ve been thinking about writing a lot lately, and this really resonates with me.
🔖📚 Read Public libraries in TX, LA, and MS are no longer protected by the First Amendment.
This is disheartening as can be and I don’t have the eloquence to explain all the ways it’s terrible.
Finished reading: After Hours at Dooryard Books by Cat Sebastian 📚
Cat Sebastian’s work unfailingly delights me and makes me feel like there’s somebody out there as awkward as me, somebody who feels things as deeply as I do. I’m so glad I read this book.
📚💬 “Farming is not for everyone, but society chooses what kind of farmers to support, and what those farmers get to grow; they’re part of a larger system.” Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
📚💬 “[The USDA’s] first loyalty has always been to the ag/food industry and to destroying any knowledge that would jeopardize the industry’s profits.” Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
🍿 Watched A Merry Little Ex-Mas. Excellent cast and Alicia Silverstone made me cry.
Finished reading: Golemcrafters by Emi Watanabe Cohen 📚
💬📚 “Hyperlexia is an early sign of golemcraft aptitude. Golems are made of words, just as Jews are made of books.” Emi Watanabe Cohen, Golemcrafters
This is a kid’s novel about two half-Japanese, half-Jewish middle schoolers who learn to make golems from their estranged grandfather.