Anniina Jokinen
@austinani.bsky.social
Editor of Luminarium, PreK-9 Librarian, and sometime fairy changeling. The Middle Ages, The Renaissance, Literature, History, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Movies, TV.
June 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Oxford yesterday: as magical as one would expect or hope. 💜
June 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Oxford yesterday: as magical as one would expect or hope. 💜
Today’s book haul from Waterstones Covent Garden. Mostly picture books for K-2; will do Middle Grade shopping another day. Oh, English bookshops!😍 📚
May 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Today’s book haul from Waterstones Covent Garden. Mostly picture books for K-2; will do Middle Grade shopping another day. Oh, English bookshops!😍 📚
Visited my boy Gower yesterday at Southwark Cathedral (St. Mary Overies):
May 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Visited my boy Gower yesterday at Southwark Cathedral (St. Mary Overies):
My 14yo just now: “POP QUIZ: What’s the first word of BEOWULF.”
I: “Hwæt!”
14yo: “And what does it mean?”
I: *Long, pregnant sigh* “Well…”
14yo: *laughing, because he knows he just played a great joke on me* 😂
#proudmama
I: “Hwæt!”
14yo: “And what does it mean?”
I: *Long, pregnant sigh* “Well…”
14yo: *laughing, because he knows he just played a great joke on me* 😂
#proudmama
May 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
My 14yo just now: “POP QUIZ: What’s the first word of BEOWULF.”
I: “Hwæt!”
14yo: “And what does it mean?”
I: *Long, pregnant sigh* “Well…”
14yo: *laughing, because he knows he just played a great joke on me* 😂
#proudmama
I: “Hwæt!”
14yo: “And what does it mean?”
I: *Long, pregnant sigh* “Well…”
14yo: *laughing, because he knows he just played a great joke on me* 😂
#proudmama
Today, for the start of Read Across America Week, we had a Free Book Fair for our elementary students. Everyone got 1 book ticket to start and an additional ticket for any old book they turned in, up to 5 extra tickets. The kids were thrilled! Everyone walked away with at least one new-to-them book📚
March 4, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Today, for the start of Read Across America Week, we had a Free Book Fair for our elementary students. Everyone got 1 book ticket to start and an additional ticket for any old book they turned in, up to 5 extra tickets. The kids were thrilled! Everyone walked away with at least one new-to-them book📚
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Sometimes the absent is still quite visible. This is the recto and verso of the same leaf, and the recto from the following, from #Houghton 2020HEM-79, showing traces of what was once clearly a lovely miniature of the Host, entirely missing from the MS as seen today
#MedievalSky
#MedievalSky
February 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Sometimes the absent is still quite visible. This is the recto and verso of the same leaf, and the recto from the following, from #Houghton 2020HEM-79, showing traces of what was once clearly a lovely miniature of the Host, entirely missing from the MS as seen today
#MedievalSky
#MedievalSky
A wonderful episode of Tasting History, in which Max Miller covers frumenty, a Medieval porridge:
www.tastinghistory.com/episodes/fru...
www.tastinghistory.com/episodes/fru...
How Medieval Peasants Survived the Winter — Tasting History
How to survive a medieval winter, and a 14th century recipe for rich and hearty wheat berry porridge
www.tastinghistory.com
February 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
A wonderful episode of Tasting History, in which Max Miller covers frumenty, a Medieval porridge:
www.tastinghistory.com/episodes/fru...
www.tastinghistory.com/episodes/fru...
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I have a little plea and it's this: please keep posting about things that aren't The Horrors. I am not saying to not look at or be informed about The Horrors. What I am saying—what I am genuinely kind of begging you to do—is keep posting about books and movies and sunsets and pets and joy. Please.
January 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I have a little plea and it's this: please keep posting about things that aren't The Horrors. I am not saying to not look at or be informed about The Horrors. What I am saying—what I am genuinely kind of begging you to do—is keep posting about books and movies and sunsets and pets and joy. Please.
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Booking is now open for our first 'Unfolding Time' exhibition lecture:
Megan McNamee, 'Light and Labour in Late Medieval Concertina-Fold Almanacs'
🕓 5.30pm, 19 February
For booking info, see www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/events
#UnfoldingTime #LambethPalaceLibrary
Megan McNamee, 'Light and Labour in Late Medieval Concertina-Fold Almanacs'
🕓 5.30pm, 19 February
For booking info, see www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/events
#UnfoldingTime #LambethPalaceLibrary
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January 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Booking is now open for our first 'Unfolding Time' exhibition lecture:
Megan McNamee, 'Light and Labour in Late Medieval Concertina-Fold Almanacs'
🕓 5.30pm, 19 February
For booking info, see www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/events
#UnfoldingTime #LambethPalaceLibrary
Megan McNamee, 'Light and Labour in Late Medieval Concertina-Fold Almanacs'
🕓 5.30pm, 19 February
For booking info, see www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/events
#UnfoldingTime #LambethPalaceLibrary
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32 #Manuscripts were digitized this past week by the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes several Boethius, a nice Sallust, more Sistine Diari volumes, an early Russian Gospel, Augustinian liturgy... and more!
#Medievalsky
Includes several Boethius, a nice Sallust, more Sistine Diari volumes, an early Russian Gospel, Augustinian liturgy... and more!
#Medievalsky
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 3 of 2025
A total of thrty-two manuscripts were added in the past week to the Vatican repositories. The largest contributor was the Vat.lat collection, with thirteen, followed with Capp.Sist.Diari with nine an...
www.wiglaf.org
January 21, 2025 at 3:55 AM
32 #Manuscripts were digitized this past week by the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes several Boethius, a nice Sallust, more Sistine Diari volumes, an early Russian Gospel, Augustinian liturgy... and more!
#Medievalsky
Includes several Boethius, a nice Sallust, more Sistine Diari volumes, an early Russian Gospel, Augustinian liturgy... and more!
#Medievalsky
Our school book fair is in full swing. We went with a Narnia theme, and it has been a huge success with kids & parents alike! 😍
I made the cupboard doors out of pink insulation foam:
I made the cupboard doors out of pink insulation foam:
December 5, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Our school book fair is in full swing. We went with a Narnia theme, and it has been a huge success with kids & parents alike! 😍
I made the cupboard doors out of pink insulation foam:
I made the cupboard doors out of pink insulation foam:
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Apologies for the late response, instead of spending three minutes answering your email I ignored it and felt anxious for two weeks
November 21, 2024 at 9:48 AM
Apologies for the late response, instead of spending three minutes answering your email I ignored it and felt anxious for two weeks
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Contrary to popular belief, there are only four kinds of bats.
November 21, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Contrary to popular belief, there are only four kinds of bats.
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Oh, the sweet days when the elite wanted to immortalize themselves by building colleges, museums, and libraries.
November 22, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Oh, the sweet days when the elite wanted to immortalize themselves by building colleges, museums, and libraries.
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Today’s #medievalmood is this owl, who has seen things.
I feel you, friend. I feel you.
From a Book of Hours at Trinity College, 15th C, B 1.46
I feel you, friend. I feel you.
From a Book of Hours at Trinity College, 15th C, B 1.46
November 21, 2024 at 4:03 AM
Today’s #medievalmood is this owl, who has seen things.
I feel you, friend. I feel you.
From a Book of Hours at Trinity College, 15th C, B 1.46
I feel you, friend. I feel you.
From a Book of Hours at Trinity College, 15th C, B 1.46
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I created this meme to commemorate the death of Twitter
November 20, 2024 at 1:34 AM
I created this meme to commemorate the death of Twitter
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Our school’s book fair is coming up. Parents can ignore emails, flyers sent home in backpacks, social media posts, &c., but nobody’s going to be able to say they didn’t know about the book fair coming, when my 7ft. friend here stands at the front of the car pickup line!😁📚
November 19, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Our school’s book fair is coming up. Parents can ignore emails, flyers sent home in backpacks, social media posts, &c., but nobody’s going to be able to say they didn’t know about the book fair coming, when my 7ft. friend here stands at the front of the car pickup line!😁📚
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I open my Bluesky feed and it is full of really cool people saying really smart things and being really passionate about really interesting stuff.
I like this version of social media, and the world.
Thanks, folks.
I like this version of social media, and the world.
Thanks, folks.
November 19, 2024 at 12:53 PM
I open my Bluesky feed and it is full of really cool people saying really smart things and being really passionate about really interesting stuff.
I like this version of social media, and the world.
Thanks, folks.
I like this version of social media, and the world.
Thanks, folks.
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November 18, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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"Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me." - Judy Blume
#BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead
#BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead
September 26, 2024 at 2:07 PM
"Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me." - Judy Blume
#BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead
#BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead
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Fun fact: In a study of introverts, forcing them to go into a bookstore and buy books measurably improved their happiness.
Go make yourself happy.
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Go make yourself happy.
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
November 19, 2024 at 5:59 AM
Fun fact: In a study of introverts, forcing them to go into a bookstore and buy books measurably improved their happiness.
Go make yourself happy.
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Go make yourself happy.
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
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If you find yourself wondering if a new book will solve all your problems today, the answer is yes
November 18, 2024 at 9:04 AM
If you find yourself wondering if a new book will solve all your problems today, the answer is yes
Awesome book recommendation guide, for those buying books as gifts for the kids in their lives:
Book Recommendations by Interest: www.bookelicious.com/gift-guide-i... via @bookelicious.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 5:27 AM
Awesome book recommendation guide, for those buying books as gifts for the kids in their lives: