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. 📚
Finished reading: Vanish by Sophie Jordan 📚
Finished reading: Protecting What’s His by Tessa Bailey 📚