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Nancy

@njnreads.bsky.social
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Reader, Runner, Mom, Wife. Passionate about access to books and libraries. “To every reader his or her book. Every book its reader.” - S.R. Ranganathan

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I'm Beth @nursejungabel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I know many of you don't know this, but there was a time in life when you left your house either on foot, bicycle, car, or bus and you went about your day without anyone knowing what you were doing. No phone/internet.There was news at 6:00 p.m. There were newspapers in the morning and the evening.
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Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I wrote a piece for an Utah paper about why books that deal with sex and assault are important for teens and shouldn't be labeled as pornography and banned. This is a major issue in my home state where many do not believe sex scenes in books are ever justified. www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
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Voices: Reading age-appropriate books about sexual assault would have helped me as a kid. Today’s students deserve better.
“Protecting kids and teens from discussions about sex is not saving them from assaults. And books are not causing the assaults,” writes Shannon Hale in an op-ed. “But books can aid in clarifying what ...
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Nancy @njnreads.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I’ve been married for 16 years. Sometimes I miss my maiden name.
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Nancy @njnreads.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Listening to Prizefighter by Mumford & Sons on repeat. Loving an album all the way through is the vibe I need today.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
More grace and class than Trump will ever be able to comprehend…
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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This takes less than 30 seconds. Do it.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/02/2026
Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history
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Nancy @njnreads.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I sent a cute Instagram reel to my kids (teens), they told me it was AI. 😩 I didn’t know, I didn’t recognize that it was fake! This is so disturbing to me. #IHateThatAIisEverywhere
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Like, follow, and share if you love libraries and reading! Then, take action to support libraries and literacy at action.everylibrary.org
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Don’t let this make you quieter. Get louder.
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Nancy @njnreads.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The way people are losing their jobs over this is frightening. 😢
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Ellen Hopkins @ellenhopkins.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Know what creates empathy? Books. Reading about people unlike ourselves and experiences we'll never have. Which is why some people want to remove those books and discourage reading. Kids and adults should read widely. Most spend their spare time online, which is where indoctrination often begins.
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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
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Nancy @njnreads.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I used to love learning from Lisa Lucas’s posts and missed that when I left Twitter. What a great interview, and now I can follow her on Bluesky. 😊
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Nancy @njnreads.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
These are the posts I love to find on social media. A recommended episode of a new-to-me podcast about books? Thank you!
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Nancy @njnreads.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Including Van Morrison’s “Into The Mystic” in the last episode of The Summer I Turned Pretty was such a stellar choice. Now I’m hoping it turns up on my daughter’s Spotify playlist. 🤞😊
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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
YA author Sarah Dessen returns with her first novel in seven years, ‘Change of Plans,’ part of a three-book deal with S&S | Cosmopolitan
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Nova Ren Suma @novarensuma.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I have a Craft Webinar with The Writing Barn coming up on August 22! This is webinar features my own personal tips, tricks, and creative exercises to develop and deepen the young characters in your novels. If you can’t attend live, not to worry—you can still register to watch a replay.
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Creating Compelling Characters in YA Novels with NYT Best-Selling Author Nova Ren Suma
A Writing Barn Craft Webinar

Friday, August 22, 2025
11:00am - 12:30pm CT
Price: $35
Replays available

www.thewritingbarn.com
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Nancy @njnreads.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
My kids are teenagers so it’s been awhile since I could hold them in my lap and read to them but I was able to do just that with my almost 3 yr old great-nephew last weekend. The connection and conversation he and I were able to have while reading was pure magic. 💕📚
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Take action to support the Institute of Museum and Library Services at SaveIMLS.org
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Nancy @njnreads.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Sure would be cool if our system of government included some form of checks and/or balances
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Wikipedia definition of "idiot plot": In literary criticism, an idiot plot is one which is "kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot",[1]: 26  and where the story would quickly end, or possibly not even happen, if this were not the case.
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Retired-Librarian @retired-librarian.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It's not a race or a competition; you can read books at your own pace. #BookSky
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Nancy @njnreads.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This looks like it may be a page-turner, especially after Hurricane Helene. “When a super-storm hits Addy's remote mountain town, knocking out the bridge and cutting her home off from the main road…” (from Google Books)
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/05/2025
Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.
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Bill Prady @billprady.com · 09/05/2025
The Library of Congress is a research library. You have to be 16 to access it. Leavitt is lying.
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Nancy @njnreads.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
😬 This observation is spot on.
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Nancy @njnreads.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Coming-of-age stories are my favorite. This is a great collection recommended by author Emily Everett, whose book, ALL THAT LIFE CAN AFFORD, I will now be looking for. lithub.com/five-novels-...
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Five Novels About Coming of Age When You’re Old Enough to Know Better
I used to think of the coming-of-age story as a predominantly teenaged genre: first loves, failed friendships, big mistakes, the mean girls and bad boys of high school hallways and college campuses…
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This is insane. Also this brazen grift must be challenged.
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Nancy @njnreads.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
This is terrifying. This administration is complete chaos.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library.
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Nancy @njnreads.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Just brainstorming here- with the tech & data we have, if you want to verify someone is a U.S. Citizen to vote, I think the states could do a quick check on their end instead of me providing a current passport (I don’t have one) or paying for a copy of my birth certificate and marriage certificate.
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Karin Schall @karinschall.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Cory Booker. 👇👇👇
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Steph @snort516.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Congratulations @corybooker.com @booker.senate.gov for your historic achievement. This is your moment. You have moved a nation.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Cory Booker is doing something incredible on the Senate floor. If you're not watching, you need to watch: www.youtube.com/live/Ej6locU...
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LIVE: Cory Booker goes for floor speech RECORD
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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Nancy @njnreads.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I’m in WI and cannot believe that this is allowed/legal/accepted by anyone, no matter who you’re voting for. 😡
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 25/03/2025
Pete Hegseth never should have been tapped for this job. It's too important. He should be fired immediately.
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Nancy @njnreads.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
In honor of Obama’s presence here, a throwback photo from 2008. “Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.” – James Herriot
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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Nancy @njnreads.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
😳 This is both ridiculous and terrifying.
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Nancy @njnreads.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Bookstores!!! ❤️📚 Please read the attached thread, I felt like I was in the bookstore with a flurry of activity around me. I love it.
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Nancy @njnreads.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I could’ve just read a book last night and had a good night’s sleep but no. I doomscrolled here and learned that there apparently is NO LAW and ORDER and couldn’t sleep and eventually had nightmares. 😣
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
PEN America said today it is “blatantly unconstitutional” for Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner to propose that O Cinema’s lease be terminated over the screening of a documentary film about the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, No Other Land, to which Meiner objects. pen.org/press-releas...
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Politicians Can’t Dictate What Stories Are Told or Films Shown - PEN America
PEN America said today it is “blatantly unconstitutional” for Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner to propose that O Cinema’s lease be terminated over the screening of a documentary film about the Israeli ...
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Nancy @njnreads.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I’d like for people to wear whatever they want, but there really is no occasion that calls for a suit, tie, and trucker hat. Make it stop.
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Becky Calzada @becalzada.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Thank you @slj.com for highlighting these amazing school library leaders! www.slj.com/story/in-the...
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In Their Own Words: Black Librarians on Making a Difference
SLJ spoke with five school librarians about how they came to the profession, the work they do each day, and their connection with students.
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