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.
Want to get in touch? You can reach me by email.
🔖📚 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.
📚💬 “Sickness wasn’t sexy. And her disability was invisible—she wasn’t missing a limb or in a full-body cast. Her level of suffering seemed impossible for others to fathom. After all, everyone got headaches sometimes, like during coffee withdrawal or the flu. So she hid it.” Tia Williams, Seven Days in June
📚💬 “What was it like, the luxury of not hurting?… she’d never stop fantasizing about being unsick.” Tia Williams, Seven Days in June
💬📚 “As a double major in creative writing and advanced melancholia, Eva had accidentally stumbled upon this life.” Tia Williams, Seven Days in June
So relatable.
Finished reading: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 📚
🔖📚 Read In Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility You Can Be “Demure and Brat All at Once” by Samantha Silva (Literary Hub)
In the Dashwood family and in my family, it sometimes feels like the older sister feels like she has to be Sense so she can hold space for the younger sister to be Sensibility.
💬📚 “It’s easy to take one’s own enthusiasms for granted; it’s much harder to explain them.” Mary Beard, Talking Classics
Keeping an eye on news about Pride displays coming down in my local library and getting ready to show up at whatever meetings I need to. I have limited physical capacity for in-person activism but I will Show Up for Libraries.
