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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Read A Book From a New (To You) Author"

Lurking How a Person Because a User - Joanne McNeil

Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've got Catch-22, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, The Catcher in the Rye, The Lord of the Flies, The Giver, Of Mice and Men, and The Scarlet Letter. Not a Bingo to be had for me, even with the short board. How about you?

Banned Book Bingo from Saranac Clarksville District Library

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Happy #NationalTacoDay! Will you ring the Bell today? I have to admit that I never have. I'm not opposed. I think I'm going to wait until there's one closer to home, though. :)

The Taco Bell Copycat Cookbook - Sunny Parker

Stupid Taco Bell Jokes Silly One-Liners Taco Bell Fans Are Sure to Love! - R.K. Reid

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So, the call just go rotated around. It's never that hard at the library and work doesn't wait or build up for me when I'm out. It's good not to be missed! :)

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don't know that I've had a job where it was that critical that I be there. I've done a good deal of retail. OK, Quinsig, yes, because there were one two of us there for the professors and students at night. But, I also did insurance (customer service) and it was set up like a call center.

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

She's an impressive young (to me--she's 30 or so) person. She also has a degree in game design...possibly graphic game design. She is WAY into tabletop RPGs, too. The teens are really lucky. The kids are, too. But, the Children's Librarian is the read home run in that age group. :)

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Quinsigamond Community College. There were some really great teachers there. I didn't know them as a student, of course, but they really cared about their students. The associate professors were great at hooking them up with a four year college when they were ready.

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If I have an appointment on a work day, I usually take the whole day off. It makes no sense to me to, say, work the morning and take the afternoon off or leave early for an appointment. Silly brain of mine! But, it's the only one of got, so... :)

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

time at our library and brought a strong art program and exhibitions to our library for us. We have a lot of really talents people that work there, even if we want for fame. In the mix, I am the weakest link. :)

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Children's Assistant/Young Adult Person brought D&D to our library. She is like WAY into it herself. She once told me she cried when one of her characters died. She then added that she cries a lot. Pretty good artist and musician, too. We have a professional artist who works VERY part

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But, I know he loved his day students, too. Just knew they weren't about to do unfun assignments without a lot of prompting and following up. :)

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I worked at a community college for a while. A lot of the evening teachers I knew were just adjuncts and did other things during the day. One guy taught the special ed kids. He said he liked the students he taught at night because you'd tell them to do something and they'd actually do it.

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

recommending ability! I guess the Berenstain Bears aren't forever. :)

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I often worry that they read it and think, "Ohhhhh..." or tell me they didn't think much of it. That's fine, but it IS kind of a conversation killer, though. I used to be able to give winning recs to my younger sister...and then she outgrew my

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I do hesitate to actually recommend things as such. People ask, "Would I like it?" And I truly don't know. This puzzles some as they say, "Well, you liked it, didn't you?" But, I haven't been able to predict how people who's tastes I don't know will react to something I think is great.

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

things late in the afternoon are stressfully anticipated by me. I like to have nothing but free time in front of me--and I LIKE having him over. Go figure! :)

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm always early! One of the things I heard and ADHD person say is that, if they have an appointment at 5PM, they can't do anything else the rest of the day. That is kind of me. No matter what I "have" to do, the rest of the day is shot for me. Even Sundays when my friend comes over to watch

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

*Sigh* but what can you expect from a bunch of high school dudes. Some of us even outgrew it. Some. :)

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My sister's mother in law does life skills for the special students. She loves it! Find it quite rewarding to work with challenged students. My teachers in high school had to work with 100% "challenged" male students. It was a private school, so our "challenge" was being a bunch of jerks.

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That's great! I love it! My parents did 50 and only parted when my Dad passed. So, I've still got some years to put in if I even hope for a tie with the record! :)

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's kind of like Monty Python Science Fiction. A defining book for me. For me and my sister, it gives us a common language of bits and pieces to refer to. My library director hated it...well, read very little of it and decided that life was too short. So, it's not for everybody.

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I guess they go together a bit. I remember listening to a therapist saying who worked with ADHD patients and she saw them showing up early (too early) for a session she new she had some anxiety issues she had to address, too. Are you referring to the Hitchhiker's Guide? That reads quickly.

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

he'd get a never ending stream of requests. Still, I feel bad for our not famous local authors. But, what can you do? :)

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We used to have Matthew Quick and he does occasionally come by. We once tried to get Dennis Lehane to have a brand name author...possible for one of the library's anniversary. His appearance fee was, like, 10 or 20 thousand dollars. So, no. I get it, though. If he did it for free

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One thing that we don't have is many author appearances. The Assistant Director said she'd love to have them, but nobody comes! She said it's usually just her sitting there with the author's family. Sad. (: We can't afford brand name authors and if you don't have your own following, well...

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That we do! Lots of them. To be honest, I think the library is slowly transitioning to more of a community center with books. We've got a D&D group. Is that where you go for your D&D--the library? The Lego program is hugely possible--the Children's Librarian is big into them himself!

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It turns out she did not find that interesting. :)

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of my favorite things that occasionally happens at the library is when a patron will ask me what I like to read...or who. One person said, "I it interesting to find out what authors other people like to read." I told her P.G. Wodehouse and I don't remember who else.

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I thought maybe you liked the unscripted nature of the games or the drama.

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There was a time when I used to watch the NFL on Sundays because when the used to run three game one after another. Soothing. Often I'd fall asleep at one point in the game and wake up to fans cheering or jeering the end of the game...or to find two completely different teams playing!

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That's right! The Bear Family got it right! I do miss the squeezy Mr. Whipple, though. :)

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Have you watched the Netflix adaptation? If so, how does in compare?

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A long time! But, not nearly long enough! 36 years. Together for 40. How about yourself?

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I won't ruin the joke for you by explaining it to you now. :)

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

...but, I didn't. The characters name is Ford Prefect. Which is a joke completely lost on an American audience, which I am. I got the name wrong be didn't get the joke until I hear it form the author, who is, of course, English. In case you haven't read the series and ever do...

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You've read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"? Well, I remember one of my bowling buddies back in the day talking about a Ford Perfect character from the book that he loved. I was a bit confused and went back to check the to see if I had it wrong...

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have Anxiety Disorder, but there are some things that, when we've been watching people talking about ADHD, my wife will comment, "Hey--that's you!" But, no not diagnosed, some I'm likely not ADHD, myself. Talking about "mispronounced"...

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

but I didn't like it as much now as I did back in the day. He was blacklisted at one point for God knows what and for a long time (politics?), so he had a backlog of books to release so it made him seem slightly faster at writing than he actually was.

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

49 books in the series. I probably read the first 6 before dropping off. Punny fantasy. Might be a little too young for you and the appeal might be more for a teenage boy of the time (if that makes sense). The author has written A LOT. I tried to revisit the series,

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I mention the Xanth series because the King's castle has a living tapestry in it that changes as time moves forward in each book, but characters can talk with past characters and it records all the history of Xanth. It's written by Piers Anthony and started in 1977. Wikipedia tells me there are

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've never tried it. I probably should. :)

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes, I do. Not a real librarian (no library degree), but I've been there for some time and, no, the don't let us read on the clock. :) Immersion reading is supposed to be best for comprehension. Keeps your mind from wandering by using your eyes and ears at the same time, I guess?

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Locally Made on Planet Earth @fjakaon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Interstate Library Loan. I've even had an out-of-state library send me a PDF of a book because they didn't want to lend out the physical book (too rare, I guess). :)

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