New game to play on my last night in London: train passing or live percussion? The trick is to listen for cymbals. 💂🏻♀️
Planet Word Museum in Washington, DC
Hi there! I'm Kimberly Hirsh. My pronouns are she/ her/hers. I'm somebody's mom. I work as a school librarian. I have a PhD in information and library science. I love to read, play tabletop and video games, and make things. I used to perform in theater and improv comedy and I may one day again. I have been extremely online since 1993 and still enjoy tinkering on the web. I manage multiple chronic illnesses. I'm married to my kid's dad. We have a cat.
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Recent posts
Now that I’ve finished listening to Stephen Fry’s audiobook of Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, I’m dreaming of an adaptation of His Last Bow starring Brent Spiner and LeVar Burton. 📚🍿🖖🏻
Finished reading: Play by Kylie Scott 📚
Finished reading: The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 📚
I like that in this one, Conan Doyle gets weird and gives us a sci fi story that feels like it’s referencing Murders in the Rue Morgue.
Finished reading: Lick by Kylie Scott 📚
Finished reading: His Last Bow by A. Conan Doyle 📚
💬📚 “I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
🔖📚 Read A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline by Ellen O’Connell Whittet (Literary Hub).
…the line at a well-stocked bookstore in a prosperous coastal city is not the same thing as a reading culture, and we should be careful not to mistake one for the other.
Finished reading: The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle 📚🎧
Continuing the Stephen Fry Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection.
Finished reading: Seven Days in June A Novel by Tia Williams 📚
Gorgeous. The depiction of Eva’s migraines and the way her daughter Audre talked about being the daughter of a sick mother cracked me open. I have such gratitude to Tia Williams for writing this.