Man, I loved reading this! Yay reading, yay libraries, yay human brains with endless capacity for wonder and hunger for meaning

Really, a powerful read from @carloiacono.bsky.social: “The choice isn’t between books and screens. The choice is between intentional design and profitable chaos.”

A thoughtful, hopeful reframing of the decline in literacy as a design problem—it’s not about fragmented attention so much as the ability to “move fluently through all the ways humans encode meaning”

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In 2026, I want to read a little more, and be better about remembering some of my top reads here on Bluesky 📚

BookPages 'Best of 2025' flyer for ALL OF US MURDERERS

Eeep! ALL OF US MURDERERS is one of BookPage's Best Mystery and Suspense of 2025!

This is exactly me, but it’s when I buy books on overdrive each week 📚

It’s in my list to read, I’ll have to move it up! Thanks 💜

SAME!

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In our very small, NON-scientific comparisons (we get AY from both at this time), BT was faster (but also delayed). I hope this is helpful!! 😬

Waiting on tenterhooks for more info here!

At the Cleveland Public Library, and I saw this dreamy, weird art exhibit in their lobby. It was so great, and so beautiful, and libraries are so great, too

I just finished The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling. It’s eerie, intense, magic-and-blood filled, and I am excited to recommend it to people!

I’ve got my second great read this year: Harriet Tubman, Live in Concert. Bob the Drag Queen wrote an inspiring, liberating story. It’s high concept, but that high concept never overwhelms the story, it’s just a fantastic read. A debut handled like a pro!

Oh, jeez. I reference and think about how we live now on the regular. Still.

Our digital use is growing, too (though not as obviously). We are lucky enough to be ok now, but soon enough we (actually mostly me, sob) will have to make some hard choices. I just don’t see our budget going up a lot. (And if it did, it should go to our stagnant salaries)

Absolute perfection!

The first one, the biggest one so far is @nnedi.bsky.social’s Death of the Author. I think about it at least once a day. I feel like I know the characters or could meet them at any point — they’re so alive

So, what have you read this year that’s living in your mind and heart? This is where I want to keep track of some of my favorite big reads of 2025

-Please let them know you appreciate the diverse and inclusive material in their displays and recommendations (if they are diverse and inclusive, of course)

TECH EXEC IN 2005: We believe the world is a better place when people are able to communicate online
THAT SAME TECH EXEC IN 2025: The greatest existential threat to humanity is the ability for women to talk back to me

Benni 💜 what a time we are seeing. I miss you, cuz 💜

Yes, please (and thank you)

This is terrifying, just terrifying

Penguin to publish ‘definitive annotated edition’ of Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch Penguin Modern Classics is to publish a “definitive annotated edition” of Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch, one of his Discworld novels.

Oh wow, this is small but such happy news for me, I’m now looking forward to April: www.thebookseller.com/news/penguin...

Cyberpunke dystopia was a cautionarye tale, but broligarchs thynke of it as an approach to the problems of the worlde.

“The obsession with civility and decorum in the United States is bipartisan and white.”

Thank you for your leadership, it was inspiring

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Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!