Finished reading: The Season by Sarah MacLean 📚
I just love Sarah MacLean so much.
🔖📚 Read Duke cut librarians. It never told the faculty they worked with.
This is one example of many where the people with whom library staff collaborate didn’t have the opportunity to advocate for them.
Finished reading: Waking Up With the Duke by Lorraine Heath 📚
So great.
Finished reading: Pleasures of a Notorious Gentleman by Lorraine Heath 📚
Today is a great day to tell your representative to support library funding in next year’s budget (FY26). Let’s be sure Congress comes back from recess to find a flood of messages supporting library funding. 📚
💬📚 “How many times could a mother’s heart break? An infinite number. Each time her children were hurt.” Lorraine Heath, Pleasures of a Notorious Gentleman
Finished reading: Passions of a Wicked Earl by Lorraine Heath 📚
Lorraine Heath is just so reliably excellent.
Finished reading: The Invisible Parade by Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio 📚
I’m very obsessed with this Día de Muertos picture book with an Own Voices illustrator. So much of the storytelling is in the images and it’s a gorgeous collaboration. Highly recommend for reading around Día de Muertos or anytime. 💀
Whoops I forgot what it means to be an educator in August. #Blaugust
I had grand dreams for Blaugust. I was going to not only write blog posts, but also read blog posts. I set up Feedly again! And the month isn’t over, so I may yet do some stuff.
But I need to recognize that as an educator working on a traditional schedule in the US, August is a month where anything that’s not for work is going to lose priority. And I only feel like doing fun things that don’t require my creativity.
So. I will only prioritize writing my own posts and they will happen when they happen.
I just renewed my family’s membership to the Friends of the Durham Library. Have you joined your library’s Friends organization? It’s a straightforward way to support an institution that’s losing a lot of structural support right now. 📚