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Yes, please! I've been giving other people book recs all day, and would be very happy to be on the receiving end now that my work day is done.
This is absolutely STUNNING.
This is thoroughly entertaining. I made it to about 1200 before I was guessing more than actually reading, but it's surprising how much you can just skim over and get the meaning without apparent effort.
I know this could have been done faster, but not with more love. I hope that is what reaches people.
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A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines
It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea
Ultimately, a wheelchair is a very good piece of very simple technology, that isn't prone to failure in case of computer issue or power failure. It, like any tool, has its own failure states - but I fully understand someone using one, even in the far Trek future.
And to tie it in to an older thread
The second, though, is that able-bodied people often think of someone being "wheelchair bound."
For most who use them, the wheelchair is not the issue. The frailty of the body is an issue - the wheelchair is a solution. The disability is what binds you, but the wheelchair provides *freedom.*
Book cover for HOW DO YOU MAKE A BABY SMILE Red background, drawing of a child with short brownish hair and large face in foreground. Child is clutching toys of giraffe, elephant, crocodile, baboon,and raccoon
Book cover of WE GO SLOW Detailed watercolor-y picture of an adult and child holding hands and walking down a street full of people and things.
Book cover of A CAT LIKE THAT A large grey and white cat walks proudly and happily across the lower 2/3 of the cover with title above.
Oops, I have seriously neglected this thread.
Storytime books today:
HOW DO YOU MAKE A BABY SMILE?
by Philemon Sturges and Bridget Strevens-Marzo
A CAT LIKE THAT by Lester L. Laminack and Nicole Wong
WE GO SLOW by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie and Aaron Becker
Ah! That's really helpful!! Thank you.
Attn #librarylife #schoollibraries #skybrarians ...
Encouraging thread for people w/chronic pain & fatigue. Sometimes something works!!
(Hey #neisvoid, has anyone with EDS seen a doctor/PT/trainer/chiropractor in New England with magic like this?
Minimum requirement is someone who helps & doesn't make things worse, but a wizard would be fantastic.)
Who are our favorite #EDS and #hypermobility specialists, #NEISvoid and beloved community?
Someone you've seen teach or at least talk about it. A clinician friend wants to learn ❤️
Share, pls!
The Librarians is streaming now thanks to PBS Independent Lens.
www.pbs.org/independentl...
I was feeling overwhelmed yesterday, so I pulled Howl's Moving Castle off the bookshelf and cuddled under a blanket and re-read it. I recommend this course of action. Especially the blanket. And that marvelously strange and magical book.
Just put the first one on hold at my library. Thanks!!
Miss Fisher for SURE! But I don't know Brokenwood!! (Ooh, I get to go discover a new thing. That's exciting! Thanks.)
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I'm sure I left some things off the list. There are so many good ones out there!
Recs for the coziest British mystery to watch please, stat
Cozy mystery show means different things to different people, but I recommend Rosemary and Thyme, Father Brown (and Sister Boniface), Campion, Marple and Poirot, Ludwig, various Lord Peter Wimsey things...
I really like Endeavour and New Tricks but I'm not sure they count as cozy.
Hmm... have you seen Bookish on PBS?
Round window with spokes radiating from a central circle through which we see brick buildings and snow-covered rooftops
Large rectangular window with four panes visible through which we see a great deal of snow falling in the foreground and an old brick building in the background
Views from the bell tower
(snow)
Update: had I finished this book in 2025, it would have been on my "best of" list. It was so damn good, and it was everything I love about good YA *for* teens. The style was so fresh and fun, and I really felt like I was reading a secret diary between two high schoolers.
Interior page for THE SECRET ASTRONOMERS. It features a black hole on a page in an old textbook, outlined with post it notes that read "here?" in different colors.
Image from the inside of The Secret Astronomers, featuring a satellite and hand writing style text on the left.
book cover for the secret astrnomers by jessica walker
I got no PR for this last year; I checked. It's a book absolutely up my alley, and I work for one of the biggest sites that's still talking about YA books with seriousness and like it matters.
WHY?
This book is one that's SO TEEN and will be read BY TEENS.
Did I mention it's gorgeous?
Marketing + publicity of YA has really just tanked. I'm shocked there was virtually *nothing* about THE SECRET ASTRONOMERS last fall. It's incredible! It's GORGEOUS. It's fresh, voicey and centers Appalachia and a Deaf main character and a mystery and an emerging friendship. It's epistolary.
Oh, hey - a lot of our 2026 Caldecott winners have books coming this year. Let's have a look . . . 100scopenotes.com/2026/01/28/2...
Hi Friends! Do you have a skill you'd like to share with your neighbors? Something practical like mending clothes or doing bulk cooking (for events, protests, community support) or maybe influencing government officials or organizing events? Share it & raise money for a good cause
It's also a fun challenge for me.
A dear friend, after I'd thrown myself down a research rabbit hole following her very offhand comment, said that anything that even REMOTELY looks like a query while I'm within earshot is like throwing a ball in the air when there’s a dog around.
She wasn't wrong! 😂
I'd been looking at 1910 census for my own great-grandparents earlier that day. (The fact that names are spelled differently on nearly every document does complicate matters, but I'm not bad at guessing variant spellings. That's why, when I saw your post, I thought I'd try to find him for you!)
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Delighted that you're happy!
Your local library probably has access to the same databases I used, but if you want me to email you copies of the documents I found, let me know.
