Want to read: Anya of Ark by Kristian Joseph 📚
Post-graduation reception.
Tassel turned! (The gown and hood were too itchy to keep on with only a sundress underneath.)
Let’s get this virtual graduation show on the road. [My son and I smiling. I am wearing doctoral regalia, including a dark blue PhD hood and velvet tam. A lightsaber blur is in the bottom right corner.]
Want to read: Blade of Secrets by Tricia Levenseller 📚
My kid and I are building NYC for the Ninja Turtles & Marvel Superheroes to adventure in, so of course I had to build the @nypl Schwarzman bldg on 5th Ave complete with Patience and Fortitude.
📚 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 had to do one more round of formatting this morning but at long last my dissertation has been accepted by my university!
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!
I love when I talk to my doctor and we agree on the best course of action.