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LEE GATLIN @neilaglet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Frog chef

Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 17/09/2026

Okay so I think it was right around here in the thread that I searched “bbc pride and prejudice streaming” and found out it’s on YouTube. I’m about halfway through and loving itttt. You’re doing the best possible version of influencing, I’m saying.

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scwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This man won his primary by 30 points.

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 11/09/2026

She was correct, and you are correct

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Steve Ahlquist @steveahlquist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The crowd

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 09/09/2026

The controversy around this book is WEIRD. I do wish more of the bibliography was in the book itself instead of online, but this article alleviated the concerns I had (tho the situation remains WEIRD). Thanks to @cathygjohn.bsky.social for posting about this bc that’s how I learned about any of it!

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Charity and Sylvia: the extraordinary claims of Rachel Hope Cleves

In early July, a dispute began between two writers; Rachel Hope Cleves, author of Charity and Sylvia; A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America, (2014), and...

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 09/09/2026

Again, I cried, but I also had to exhibit some real self control to not gobble this book up in one sitting. It’s so tender, so observed, and hit me right at home in its portrayal of love and care through the joys and relentlessness of life. It’s also full of thousands of beautiful drawings.

A page titled “Home, A Sensation Felt Deeply” which shows close scenes of household objects after Charity and Sylvia return to their shared home after a long trip. The feeling of sleeping in your own bed after time away, even a nice time away.

A single tiny panel that reads “But the confines and limits of her existence are still heavy” showing two women fenced by a grid of household objects (and, if I may editorialize, invisible labor).

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 09/09/2026

A brief return to #eloisereads because I finally read Tillie Walden’s Charity & Sylvia (and cried when I finished it, in a doctor’s waiting room). I am in the bag for Walden (go read On a Sunbeam and Spinning, do it now) and I was nervous this book would be fiddly or boring. It isn’t.

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David Morales @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Polls are open, neighbors! 🗳️ Visit the Secretary of State’s website to find your polling location. Polls are open until 8pm.

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 04/09/2026

Happy belated book birthday to Stampede!, @jerroldconnors.bsky.social newest picture book and a total looney-tunes romp (complimentary). Jerrold caught me at just the right time to make a little painting for his cow-themed gallery show to accompany Stampede!, how could I possibly say no?

Painting of a white and red-brown calf gamboling through a yellow-green field with a white and dark brown cat sitting calmly on his back.

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 02/09/2026

What an absolutely perfect way to find out Markey won

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 31/08/2026

- Hang out with your buddy Eloise and enjoy the warm glow of contributing to your community. Truly, it’s fun, you’ll feel accomplished, and you’ll get to see firsthand just how much our libraries do. Reach out if you’re interested! eloise@eloisenarrigan.com 4/4

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 31/08/2026

- Support CLPVD in the way that best fits you. Are you super organized? Or you know all about nonprofits? Or you're friends with everyone in your neighborhood? Or you love fundraising? Or you can talk forever about the magic of libraries? You're going to be invaluable. 3/4

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 31/08/2026

What's it like to be a board member? I'm glad you asked! - Attend one board meeting per month. (Usually the 3rd Monday of the month at 6pm, for 2 hours or less, at Rochambeau Library. Always free pizza.) - Serve on one committee, which also meets once a month. (Usually for an hour over Zoom.) 2/4

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 31/08/2026

Rhode Island friends! Community Libraries of Providence (CLPVD) is looking for a couple new board members. I'm so excited to start my second term on the CLPVD board, and I think more people should try it. Maybe you? 1/4

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 28/08/2026

Those are some really phenomenal bricks.

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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · 21/08/2026

Doggust day 20: Some things lost to AI. 📝 #doggust2026

A yellow dog is amazed looking at a poster on a pillar that says "graphic design". Below is a close up of the poster. There's a yellow dog on it at an old computer an the text above says either "graphic design is my passion" or "graphic design my is passion." It's unclear, due to the graphic design. There are several pull tabs below that just say "help."

Text reads: "I like every weird handmade poster."

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

SARASOTA FL flipped the school board. They were like ground zero for this book banning bullshit and I LOVE TO SEE them eat shit electorally 🥰🥰🥰 This keeps happening almost like book banner suck and are bad at their jobs

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 15/08/2026

Eyes WIDE OPEN during nap time (yet laying down so flat and well behaved) is very endearing

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David Morales @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Visit our website for voting resources including how to apply for a mail ballot and find your local polling place. Together, let’s make sure our voices are heard this election so we can build a #ProvidenceForAll! 🦋 🔗 www.davidmoralespvd.com/voting

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Voting Resources — David Morales For Mayor

Explore resources below to find information you may need to be ready to vote for David Morales for Providence Mayor on Wednesday, September 9th.

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Sonido Reyes @sonidoreyes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’M DOING A PREORDER CAMPAIGN!!! Both preorders and library requests count towards the bonus incentives, so please help spread the word! Oracle cards by @leecallart.bsky.social 📚💙 Fill out this form to enter: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 05/08/2026

I JUST made Josh listen to this in the car and it is indeed such a good episode. (The A Bit Fruity ep where they get into Mel’s AI endorsement and not being invited to a girl’s weekend is also very good.)

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 29/07/2026

The other night our smoke alarm went off for one second at like 3am. My husband found the manual and was sending me excerpts from it (because I had gone back to bed when we figured out the house wasn’t on fire.) Me, the next day: Did you laugh at my Batman joke? Josh: Not…out loud, no.

Screenshot from a text conversation. Josh has sent an excerpt from a smoke alarm manual that says “Hush (R) mode: The red LED will illuminate for 1.5 seconds every 8-10…”
I, hilariously, have messaged back an image of Hush, the Batman villain.

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 29/07/2026

New newsletter going out tomorrow (Thursday the 30th)! Can I call an email snail mail if it contains at least three snails? Sign up here if you are so inclined: www.eloisenarrigan.com/newsletter

Illustration of two cute snails, one is green and wearing headphones, and one is pink and driving a mail truck.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I'm writing a picture book about libraries right now, and it's SO FUN to basically author some pro-library, pro-literacy joy after the fucking last 3 years of fighting book bans. LIBRARIES ARE GREAT. THE PUBLIC GOOD IS GREAT. VOLUNTARY INQUIRY IS GREAT.

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I've written with pencils for years, but I haven't given much thought to their manufacture. Blackwing sent me a video link showing how their pencils are made, and it's quite lovely - a step up from the typical 'how it's made' short. Now I love pencils even more :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fow-...

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How Blackwing Pencils Are Made | Behind the Process

YouTube video by Blackwing

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 21/07/2026

Absolutely seconded. This is prime zine material in my opinion. Have I been daydreaming about Trung adapting P&P as a graphic novel, annotated with the skeets? Yes, but I’ll take what I can get and like it.

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 09/07/2026

Delightful! I would say almost every shot could be longer. I barely had time to process the triceratops in either shot (and I want to see them!), and I don’t think I caught all the text on the first watch through.

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Heyyyyy #BookSky Tell all your writer friends who live in Greater Cambridge that applications for the 2027 Porter Square Books Writers in Residence are now open! Deadline to apply is August 27th portersquarebooks.com/porter-squar...

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 02/07/2026

I recommend it! It’s especially nice because the conference location moves around, so hopefully some future year it’ll come close to you (or somewhere you really want to visit).

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 01/07/2026

KATIE YES. So not even metaphorically!

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 01/07/2026

I am still buzzing from the American Library Association annual conference and the power of children’s literature so: YES (Mostly metaphorically. Mostly.)

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 29/06/2026

Also it was such a joy to be there with @hannahchung.com (and celebrate her BOOKS), especially the Newbery-Caldecott Awards. (Here we are right before I cried at all three speeches.)

Hannah Chung (author-illustrator of Most Perfect Persimmon and Bread Days) and Eloise Narrigan smiling, sitting at a table at the Newbery-Caldecott-Legacy Awards.

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 29/06/2026

You too! And I cannot wait to read Fox River Comics Camp!

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 29/06/2026

ALA Annual Conference was wall-to-wall wonderful and I met many, many smart, funny, charming teachers, librarians, and publishing people. It was 100% worth doing my best impression of an extrovert but I am now very happy to take my books home and sleep for a thousand years (give or take).

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 26/06/2026

The stickers in question, by the by:

A sticker reading No Room for Birds, a picture book by Eloise Narrigan, with a goat witch holding a stack of witchy treasures away from an enthusiastic, scruffy bird.

A sticker with my website, eloisenarrigan.com, showing a blue raccoon hugging a stack of library books.

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 26/06/2026

I did not know this and what an excellent and useful thing to learn. 🚕🚕🚕

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 26/06/2026

Listen I love an assignment, I’ll look for it! (And if I get to read it early, what an absolute bonus.)

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 25/06/2026

I’m off to the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago this weekend! I’m not exhibiting—just scoping out some cool books and learning more about libraries—but if you’re on the floor on Saturday or Sunday, let me know. Let’s chat! Or run from signing to signing together. I’ll also be giving out stickers.

One portion of RISO printed illustration of nocturnal animals enjoying their neighborhood library. Below is the word Library and a little drawing of a library building.

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 24/06/2026

OOH the atmosphere! I love this and I support any and all of Aurelia’s future endeavors.

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 17/06/2026

Because of this post I learned that clowder is the collective noun for cats and I feel like we can do better.

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 17/06/2026

Graphic design is not my passion, but zines increasingly are. Im a featured creator at Cat Zine Fest at Cool Cat Collective. They’ll have hard copies of my zine as well as a clowder of cat zines from across the world! If you’re in Long Beach, I am jealous of you and you should swing by.

Two blue ink drawings of cats in bodegas. One is sitting in front of a wall of snacks, and one is lounging on a counter by some outlets and wires. Below, text reads Cats in Bodegas at Cat Zine Fest, June 26, 6pm-9pm, Cool Cat Collective, 2741 E 4th St C, Long Beach, CA

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 15/06/2026

We cannot have a dog in our apartment, so I have been consoling/tormenting myself by learning to draw the most impossible dog on the planet. If I can keep the momentum up I’m hoping this will be a new zine in (realistically) 4 months.

Scritchy ink drawings of borzoi dogs in four different poses.

Scritchy ink drawings of borzoi dogs in five different poses.

Scritchy ink drawings of borzoi dogs in three different poses.

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Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com · 15/06/2026

Someday I will learn how to do an event and not then disappear from the internet for fortnights at a time. Can I find a way to make social media sustainable for me? Probably not! I still like seeing everybody’s posts on here. Anyway SUNNY DAY was a blast, if you stopped by thank you for coming!

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Meg Hunt @meghunt.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Hey all! I'm moving all my stuff to a new place in 10 days (fortunately, just a few miles away but still, AHHHHH!) so that means: moving sale! www.meghunt.com/shop If you use code BOXY til Jun 22 at midnight ET, you'll get 20% off everything in the shop. I'll be closing shop for a few weeks after!

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