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@nbwlibrarian.bsky.social
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Children's and YA Librarian. Mostly here to lurk but sometimes talk books.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
This is incredible. Also. Fuck RFK Jr.
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nbwlibrarian.bsky.social @nbwlibrarian.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The difference between having a child in 2014 vs having one in 2018 was a stark contrast. All that hope turned to fear. I hate this timeline.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse
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Draw a horse, watch it run!
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/01/2026
Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...
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And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like.
Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is
"well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it.
This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order.
And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny.
You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely.
"Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…
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Dave Scheidt @davescheidt.com · 05/11/2025
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nbwlibrarian.bsky.social @nbwlibrarian.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
LOVED them!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/10/2025
I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs Such a visible "go fuck yourself"
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Just bc a book contains a protagonist between 10 and 30, especially a female protagnoist, doesn't mean it's YA. Just bc the book is written by a woman (or someone you incorrectly assume is a woman), doesn't make it YA. Just bc a book is fun, written colloquially, or has romance doesn't make it YA.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/10/2025
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consumerreports.org
How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
A quick FYI: They have *just* relaunched the online NPR shop with bunches of new stuff, plus some throwbacks and, of course, the Tiny Desk hoodie. So if you are that kind of public media person, there’s some stuff to check out! shopnpr.org
shopnpr.org
The Official NPR Shop
National Public Radio, Inc.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 13/08/2025
Going to the library fucking rules. You can walk in and pick your favorite things and then walk right out without paying anything. It's unbelievable and 100% the kind of thing that won't exist in the future unless you recognize the goodness now before it's too late
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 01/08/2025
Oh by the way, don’t forget you can ask your library to order nearly any book you want to read but don’t want to buy. And as authors we love libraries buying our books & readers being able to access them through libraries.
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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄
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nbwlibrarian.bsky.social @nbwlibrarian.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
You know, it's times like these that make me sincerely hope there is a hell.
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nbwlibrarian.bsky.social @nbwlibrarian.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
YA alternative history/fantasy. One of those books that might not have been a 5⭐️ read at another time but really hit all the right spots in the here and now. Unique magical premise (magic flowers) was the hook, but also loved her take on the bad guy.
Cover of Flower and Thorn by Rati Mehrotra
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Mary K @maryloveswords.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
“If you don’t believe that the picture book is real literature, then in some level you don’t believe that children are real people. And that’s unacceptable.” Thank you, Mac Barnett. #ala25.
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nbwlibrarian.bsky.social @nbwlibrarian.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This one has been on my to-read list for a long time. Listened to the audio. Delightful middle-grade mystery with just a hint to magic.
The cover of Greenglass House by Kate Milford
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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 25/06/2025
raise your hand if you're not in NYC but you're following the mayoral election out of a desperate need to believe that good things are possible
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nicole brinkley | bookseller @nebrinkley.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
dear publishing: the teens in my store are currently reading THE HUNGER GAMES and SIX OF CROWS and DIVERGENT and have asked me repeatedly this week for SHATTER ME. can we bring younger, genre-driven, pulpy dystopias and dystopian fantasy back? they really, really want it. thank youuuuuuu. xoxo me
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
“Saw some civilians hiding in a bunker, cowering, looking out the door. Saw some advancing Americans coming that way. I just figured it was time to do something, to not let these people get killed. Landed in between the Americans & Vietnamese, told my crew chief & gunner to cover me…” Please read:
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Joost @almodozo.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Hell of a photo
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nbwlibrarian.bsky.social @nbwlibrarian.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Book It is actually still a thing, and they just unveiled their app! www.bookitprogram.com
bookitprogram.com
Pizza Hut BOOK IT!® Program
Pre-register teachers for the BOOK IT! reading program.
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nbwlibrarian.bsky.social @nbwlibrarian.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Middle-grade fantasy that lives up to the hype and is definitely now one of my top recs re: what to read instead of HP. (Delighted that it is going to be a series that appears to follow the one year time skip format.)
Cover of The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents by Nicki Pau Preto
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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Hey, who wants something nice? So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:
A rectangular gray gravestone, inscribed with Whitin Badger, 1906-1992, Dwight Cooke 1908-1992, and underneath the line "THE UNICORN WAITS IN A DARKENING WOOD"
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
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nbwlibrarian.bsky.social @nbwlibrarian.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Read the ARC. Elemental magic, a competition with trials, courtyard intrigue, mean girls...this was very reminiscent of 2010s YA in all of the best ways! Out 6/3.
Cover of Heir of Storms by Lauryn Hamilton Murray
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nbwlibrarian.bsky.social @nbwlibrarian.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Listened to the (American) audio. I think I liked this one even better than the first! On to the trilogy ender.
Cover of Good Girl, Bad Blood by Hollu Jackson.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I actually didn't know this about the NMAAHC. Donating now.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...
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His Skeletoncy, the Ghoul of Hell @timhodgson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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nbwlibrarian.bsky.social @nbwlibrarian.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
That's my senator!
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nbwlibrarian.bsky.social @nbwlibrarian.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Thank you, Senator!
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Dana Schwartz @danaschwartz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"do audio books count??" what are you even talking about. count for what. read books with your eyes or listen to them, who is keeping score. enjoy a great story, entertain yourself, feel inspired, pass the time. art is not meant to be a competition with an imaginary score-keeper.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
They've breached the "I don't talk politics with family" containment, my brother just sent me this.
Characters from the Star Wars television show Andor. One says "they're building a weapon called the death star" the second says "how do you know this?" The first answers "Krennic added me to the groupchat"
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I wrote about my kind, funny childhood friend Michelle Trachtenberg, and the group of friends that saved my life when I was a kid. www.vulture.com/article/mara...
vulture.com
My Cool Friend Michelle
Other kids called Trachtenberg a bitch, but in our group of child stars, we all wanted to be like her.
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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Here’s an explainer re possible impacts to the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS). It “enumerates which programs are "shall" programs and duties, meaning that they are mandated by Congress, and which programs are "may" programs, meaning that they are discretionary for IMLS”
everylibraryinstitute.org
Understanding IMLS's “Shall” and “May” Language
EveryLibrary Institute is a 501c3 organization that supports library funding in the United States.
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 11/03/2025
Its hard. It always is. But don’t ever give up and don’t ever give in. That’s what they want you to do. Live truly and loudly for yourself in spite of them. Try your best to have a decent day. ❤️
Scared as what you are feeling. Brave is what you are doing a sign outside of a small donut shop in Savannah.
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nbwlibrarian.bsky.social @nbwlibrarian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Adorable middle-grade romance with a side helping true and toxic friendships.
Cover of Bye Forever, I Guess
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nbwlibrarian.bsky.social @nbwlibrarian.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Just need to scream into the void about how much I actively dislike Publisher's Weekly's redesign.
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Jen @popgoesthereader.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Because I think we could all use a bit of positive news right now: Megan Follows, who starred in the 1985 Anne of Green Gables mini-series adaptation, is now set to star as Lucy Maud Montgomery in a new series. variety.com/2025/tv/glob...
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‘Anne of Green Gables’ Star Megan Follows to Play Its Author Lucy Maud Montgomery in Series ‘Lucy. Maud’ (EXCLUSIVE)
‘Anne of Green Gables’ star Megan Follows to play its author Lucy Maud Montgomery in upcoming title, pitched at Berlin’s Co-Pro Series.
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nbwlibrarian.bsky.social @nbwlibrarian.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
YA dystopia. Fast paced page-turner that has me anxiously awaiting the sequel. Hits on sexism, war, and genocide. Well developed world and complex, engaging POV characters.
Cover of Songlight by Moira Buffini
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nbwlibrarian.bsky.social @nbwlibrarian.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Something to know about me is that even in adulthood, I remain a petty, petty shipper, and any work can become dead to me at any time if I don't get my ship. I'm a simpleton like that.
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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 19/02/2025
I keep thinking of this
Voting as Fire Extinguisher
When the haunted house catches fire: a moment of indecision.
The house was, after all, built on bones, and blood, and bad intentions.
Everyone who enters the house feels that overwhelming dread, the evil that perhaps only fire can purge.
It's tempting to just let it burn.
And then I remember: there are children inside.
-Kyle Tran Myhre
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nbwlibrarian.bsky.social @nbwlibrarian.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
YA historical novel based on the real life woman who hid 13 Jews in her attic. I don't know what I was thinking reading a Holocaust story right now, but man, was this well written. Officially a fan of all of Cameron's historical fiction.
Cover of The Light in Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron.
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nbwlibrarian.bsky.social @nbwlibrarian.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Listened to audio, which had A+ narration. Middle-grade story with a solid plot (mystery?) about a missing brother's return that also explores changing friendships, middle school crushes, family dynamics, and mental illness.
Cover of The Shape of Lost Things by Sarah Everett
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nbwlibrarian.bsky.social @nbwlibrarian.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Y'know, there are a lot of us who feel the call to service but for any number of reasons would never have cut it in the armed forces. So we went into civil service in stead, genuinely seeking to use our skills for the betterment of our community and country. It's a national sin to squander that.
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Karen Jensen, MLS @tltkaren.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The YA publishing crisis isn’t that we need more mature YA books or a Mature YA label, it’s that we need more YA books published for teens of all ages and less YA books published as YA but also wanting to reach Adult audiences. Adults have plenty of books published for them.
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nbwlibrarian.bsky.social @nbwlibrarian.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Gotta say, as someone w/ extreme phone anxiety, I've been working up the nerve to call my Congrassman (a def Trumper) for a couple of days (and sending emails in the meantime). Finally did it this AM & it was so easy & actually pleasant. My hands are still shaking, yeah, but glad I did it. Whew.
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