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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

IBD-- despite my BSky being 90% bookstores and authors, my first thought (as a person with a chronic illness) is NEVER International Bookstore Day.

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

same. i came to work even when it meant i went home and immediately to bed, for months straight. i came to work when i was too exhausted and malnourished to stand up long enough to shower. i came to work even though i couldn't do dishes or laundry for months.

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just reviewed /A Study in Sparkling/ by Jodi McAlister. #NetGalley @netgalley.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

if you make the reader look up a word, it's only proper to use it several times (so we can feel proud of our new shared vocab word).

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

& when ur done, your locally-purchased📖can continue to do good in your community. hand-sell it to a friend/neighbor. share it thru a Little Free Library. see if your public library or library Friends want it to add (or resell! most Friends $ goes directly back to support the library).

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

so weird that in-person is free but virtual isn't. 🤷‍♀️

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i gave myself until the actual end of summer and still only managed one bingo. judging for the state book award really threw off my groove-- i only finished 4 non-assigned books in August.

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

it's not an eARC so i don't *have* to post this, but i loved this book so much! adorbs. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

honestly, probably disappointed, but her priorities needed some growing-up, too.

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the fact that they inflated the numbers so outrageously & clearly never paused to check the math or have a micro-second of critical thinking is a big tell. no one thought "huh, if these figures are correct, *why* are libraries sticking to their position?"

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

or it could just ("just") be that people who don't read spend more money on streaming services and other media. since the big publishers don't only own book publishing outlets, do they consider it in their long-term interest to route consumers to other media formats?

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i wonder if that is part of the point. people who read have more empathy for others, especially other people who are different in any way. people who read can follow a plot and question motivations, which would be distasteful for A LOT of those making the news.

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

is everything eligible submitted to your state's book award? @libraryofcongress.bsky.social Center for the Book maybe administers your state library's award. many libraries pull from those short lists for book groups or displays, or print and provide the short lists to patrons.

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

do eARC giveaways cost money? sometimes i see already-out stuff on @netgalley.bsky.social (tho not often). Ingram just released their new eARC site, covered, and there's TONS of older stuff on there.

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"84% of Proficient readers voted in the 2000 presidential election, compared with 53% of Below-Basic readers" no idea why anyone would generally discourage the public from reading! 😒 www.arts.gov/impact/resea...

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To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

/As you wake, break the shell/ by Becky Chambers. it's not as explicit, but the way physical abilities/power are portrayed in /The Mars house/ by Natasha Pulley could be worth a look.

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Also, it's the end of the year. Libraries NEED to spend all their $$, & w/ journals reviewing📚not coming out for several months, it can be hard for librarians to spend all of their💰in the last wks of the ordering cycle. If your book came out earlier this year, promote it now (thru the end of Nov)!!

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I reviewed /Great rail journeys/, which I received 7/27/26 from #QuartoBooksUS and #FrancesLincoln. @QuartoBooksUS www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

/Books, iced coffee and a side of dragons/ is absolutely adorable! Recommended for when you need a super cozy read. <3 <3

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Do I try to read it only a few pages at a time, so the urge to stab things doesn't overwhelm me, or do I try to read it all in one go and get it over with? #eBooksforall #Libraries @librarianproblems.bsky.social

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm trying to read the @americanpublish.bsky.social's paid "study" (here's the link, btw, almost like they wanted it be hard to find...) and the number of pants-on-🔥statements within the first half-dozen pages is a doozy. secretariat-intl.com/wp-content/u...

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

oh weird, i've never heard "friend of Jack." i appreciate your citation! we were taught "red on black: venom lack."

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

on one side are international billionaire conglomerates and on the other side are public institutions, taxpayers, and kindergardeners. libraries aren't the bad guys.

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

and Poetry: /The unreliable tree/ M. Kahn /Let the moon wobble/ A. Ang /Recovery commands/ A.E. Murray /Not now but soon/ C. Dahl /Forty bouts in the wilderness/ K. E. Ellis /Monster galaxy/ C. Veach /Mostly sweet, lovely, human things/ M. Marchand

stack of books on a table: The unreliable tree, Let the moon wobble, Recovery commands, Not now but soon, Forty bouts in the wilderness, Monster galaxy, Mostly sweet, lovely, human things

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

General NF/Bio: /The AI con/ E. M. Bender, A. Hanna /Black gold/ B. Wyss /Saving the Nisqually Delta/ J. Gates /The stronger sex/ S. Vartan /Close to home/ T. Hanson /Pacific Harvest/ J. Hahn /Wards of the State/ C. Rowe /Feral & Hysterical/ S. Hartmann /Stone/ R. Rhodes

stack of books on a table:
The AI con, Black gold, Saving the Nisqually Delta, The stronger sex, Close to home, Pacific Harvest, Wards of the State, Feral & Hysterical, Stone

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fiction: /When we were real/ Daryl Gregory /Outer stars/ Sundberg Lunstrum /Brigands & Breadknives/ Travis Baldree /The only wolf is time/ Dan Tremaglio /Sinkhole.../ Leyna Krow /The peculiar gift of July/ Ashley Ream /So far gone/ Jess Walter /Dungeon crawler Carl/ Matt Dinniman

stack of books on table: When we were real, Outer stars, Brigands & Breadknives, The only wolf is time, Sinkhole and other inexplicable voids, The peculiar gift of July, So far gone, Dungeon crawler Carl

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Creative Nonfiction/Memoir: /We survived the night/ Julian Brave Noisecat /Alterations/ Cori Winrock

two books, We Survived the Night and Alterations, stacked on a table.

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The final list for the Washington State Book Awards is a group project. The published list contains great books, and there isn't room for every book that's noteworthy. Below is what my list would look like (so it's probably lucky there are so many different types of judges).

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i wanna say she's also mentioned in a Michael Pollan book, but i read a lot of food-not-cookbook nonfiction and could be thinking of someone else...

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

multiple staff at my library are currently standing firm on message with a patron who has us confused with a publisher and really wants our help getting his book published. it's a real "my dude, this is a Wendy's" scenario, and it's apparently been more than a week.

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Death certificates from the 1920s thru 50s sometimes put this info in the "usual occupation" field. Just in case anyone needs a reminder of the efficacy of vaccines. From a Washington State Department of Health Certificate of Death, 9/17/1944, for 10-month-old Nels Henry Johnson. @doh.wa.gov

clipping from a Washington State Department of Health Certificate of Death, 9/17/1944, for 10-month-old Nels Henry Johnson. Clipping reads: [field] 6a: single, widowed, married, divorced: Infant.

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

some carry-over titles from last week. i'll get there when i get there!

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

i summon @tkingfisher.com, because i think this is a fact she could get excited about.

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

there were *sail-powered trains* around Boston and there's NOT an historical fiction quasi-steampunk with a romantic subplot in which some escapes by jumping onto the train's mast? /Black gold/ by Bill Wyss, p. 45

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

i helped with a thing! i'm going to take a break this next award cycle, but watch washingtoncenterforthebook.org if you'd like to apply to be a judge. washingtoncenterforthebook.org/2026-washing...

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2026 Washington State Book Award Finalists Announced! – Washington Center for the Book

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

or donate to your local public library (or the local source that actually funds the Imagination Library-- many local orgs fund this at the local level).

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

writing my review for #LegendsLattesTheGraphicNovel, courtesy of @netgalley.bsky.social, but the publisher requested reviews not be posted in advance, so you'll see it in October!

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sarah morrison @sarahevmorrison.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

my also-tardy review for #TheSaltKing, courtesy of @netgalley.bsky.social. ❤️❤️❤️this author-- instant buy on all future titles. (have you read /Mars house/? still talking about this top-5-of-all-time favorite-- see 2nd link.) www.goodreads.com/review/show/... www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

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