Library Mary
@librarymary.bsky.social
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Library Mary
@librarymary.bsky.social
· Jun 27
SUMMER READING SHUFFLE
Today I put in extra middle grade and YA to help the neighborhood kids find something they WANT to read this summer. 20 minutes a day keeps summer slide away! But let them read what and how they want if you want them to read for life. #littlefreelibraries #summerreading
Today I put in extra middle grade and YA to help the neighborhood kids find something they WANT to read this summer. 20 minutes a day keeps summer slide away! But let them read what and how they want if you want them to read for life. #littlefreelibraries #summerreading
My summer reading manifesto: Articles about sports, video game tutorials, comics, whatever. All reading helps them become better readers and writers (and humans)! Parents, please hear me. Graphic Novels are reading! Re-reading is reading! Audiobooks are reading! Reading together is reading!
Threads just seems like a place to rage bait educators now?
August 21, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Threads just seems like a place to rage bait educators now?
The bittersweet schadenfreude of a relationship you hated watching all along from afar coming to an end.
July 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The bittersweet schadenfreude of a relationship you hated watching all along from afar coming to an end.
My summer reading manifesto: Articles about sports, video game tutorials, comics, whatever. All reading helps them become better readers and writers (and humans)! Parents, please hear me. Graphic Novels are reading! Re-reading is reading! Audiobooks are reading! Reading together is reading!
SUMMER READING SHUFFLE
Today I put in extra middle grade and YA to help the neighborhood kids find something they WANT to read this summer. 20 minutes a day keeps summer slide away! But let them read what and how they want if you want them to read for life. #littlefreelibraries #summerreading
Today I put in extra middle grade and YA to help the neighborhood kids find something they WANT to read this summer. 20 minutes a day keeps summer slide away! But let them read what and how they want if you want them to read for life. #littlefreelibraries #summerreading
June 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
My summer reading manifesto: Articles about sports, video game tutorials, comics, whatever. All reading helps them become better readers and writers (and humans)! Parents, please hear me. Graphic Novels are reading! Re-reading is reading! Audiobooks are reading! Reading together is reading!
Don’t forget to vote today, NJ! 🗳️
June 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Don’t forget to vote today, NJ! 🗳️
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Military parades should celebrate the end of a war or conflict, not the beginning.
June 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Military parades should celebrate the end of a war or conflict, not the beginning.
June 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Pleeeeease NYC don’t rank Cuomo or Adams.
June 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Pleeeeease NYC don’t rank Cuomo or Adams.
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Want to join a book club that discusses banned books online here on Bluesky? No deadlines. Discussions are ongoing. Access talking points, updates, and members' discussion comments via the Banned Book Club feed. See quoted post below for more information. #BannedBookSkyClub #BookSky
#BannedBookSkyClub schedule:
June 2025: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
July 2025: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
August 2025: The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
September/October 2025: 1984 by George Orwell.
Link to feed in replies. #BookSky
Please join us.
June 2025: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
July 2025: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
August 2025: The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
September/October 2025: 1984 by George Orwell.
Link to feed in replies. #BookSky
Please join us.
June 1, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Want to join a book club that discusses banned books online here on Bluesky? No deadlines. Discussions are ongoing. Access talking points, updates, and members' discussion comments via the Banned Book Club feed. See quoted post below for more information. #BannedBookSkyClub #BookSky
Surprised and grateful to encounter a description of atheism that is unapologetic and thoughtful in this book. Some believers have treated me so unkindly when they learned I am not one, and Knox echoes my response, that not believing in god does not mean I have no beliefs. #booksky 💙📚
June 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Surprised and grateful to encounter a description of atheism that is unapologetic and thoughtful in this book. Some believers have treated me so unkindly when they learned I am not one, and Knox echoes my response, that not believing in god does not mean I have no beliefs. #booksky 💙📚
In May, I found the books I enjoyed the most were books I wouldn’t have chosen without recommendations from others. @thestorygraph.com #booksky 💙📚
June 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In May, I found the books I enjoyed the most were books I wouldn’t have chosen without recommendations from others. @thestorygraph.com #booksky 💙📚
Live your life so The NY Times doesn’t spend an entire paragraph speculating everyone who wants to punch you.
May 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Live your life so The NY Times doesn’t spend an entire paragraph speculating everyone who wants to punch you.
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Don't forget, the June 2025 #BannedBookSkyClub book is #TheLeftHandOfDarkness by Ursula Le Guin. Discussion begin date is June 9, 2025.
See replies for link to feed. Please join us! #BookSky
See replies for link to feed. Please join us! #BookSky
May 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Don't forget, the June 2025 #BannedBookSkyClub book is #TheLeftHandOfDarkness by Ursula Le Guin. Discussion begin date is June 9, 2025.
See replies for link to feed. Please join us! #BookSky
See replies for link to feed. Please join us! #BookSky
Watching other adults ruin a sport for kids is the worst.
May 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Watching other adults ruin a sport for kids is the worst.
I’ve been working really hard on not using Amazon and I’m using a similar muscle to try really hard not to give clicks to websites that thrive off of farming clicks with misinformation and rage bait. They don’t care about putting people in danger, they only care about ad buys and eyeballs.
May 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I’ve been working really hard on not using Amazon and I’m using a similar muscle to try really hard not to give clicks to websites that thrive off of farming clicks with misinformation and rage bait. They don’t care about putting people in danger, they only care about ad buys and eyeballs.
May 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I’m sorry but roosters in the suburbs is a No for me.
May 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I’m sorry but roosters in the suburbs is a No for me.
Just finished this heartwarming coming of age / road trip book, which I first heard about a couple weeks ago on the literary + genre episode of “What Should I Read Next?” #podcast.
modernmrsdarcy.com/472-episode/
#audiobooks #booksky 💙📚
modernmrsdarcy.com/472-episode/
#audiobooks #booksky 💙📚
May 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Just finished this heartwarming coming of age / road trip book, which I first heard about a couple weeks ago on the literary + genre episode of “What Should I Read Next?” #podcast.
modernmrsdarcy.com/472-episode/
#audiobooks #booksky 💙📚
modernmrsdarcy.com/472-episode/
#audiobooks #booksky 💙📚
@emilynussbaum.bsky.social have you finished the added material for the Cue the Sun paperback yet? 🫠
Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship
A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
@emilynussbaum.bsky.social have you finished the added material for the Cue the Sun paperback yet? 🫠
Not ads for charter schools and ChatGPT embedded into podcasts I love. 💔
May 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Not ads for charter schools and ChatGPT embedded into podcasts I love. 💔
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how am i supposed to look nice in 83% humidity. how.
May 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
how am i supposed to look nice in 83% humidity. how.
This is one of the wildest, juiciest #memoirs I have ever read. I read Janelle Monae is attached to a possible film adaptation. Another great rec from @bookriot.bsky.social TBR! #truecrime #booksky 💙📚
May 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This is one of the wildest, juiciest #memoirs I have ever read. I read Janelle Monae is attached to a possible film adaptation. Another great rec from @bookriot.bsky.social TBR! #truecrime #booksky 💙📚
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#BannedBookSkyClub discussion of #TheGirlWhoLovedTomGordon by Stephen King #BookSky
I've sent out talking points to start the discussion of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. I'll send out more periodically throughout May.
To join check the hashtags or pin/like the feed (go to link; click on 3 dots)
I've sent out talking points to start the discussion of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. I'll send out more periodically throughout May.
To join check the hashtags or pin/like the feed (go to link; click on 3 dots)
May 6, 2025 at 4:02 AM
#BannedBookSkyClub discussion of #TheGirlWhoLovedTomGordon by Stephen King #BookSky
I've sent out talking points to start the discussion of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. I'll send out more periodically throughout May.
To join check the hashtags or pin/like the feed (go to link; click on 3 dots)
I've sent out talking points to start the discussion of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. I'll send out more periodically throughout May.
To join check the hashtags or pin/like the feed (go to link; click on 3 dots)
I really love witnessing my tween start to develop his own musical taste. He’s still figuring it out, but it’s fascinating to see the songs he lands on along the way. Currently: Mr. Bluesky by ELO, misc French hip hop, and Spanish dance music he hears in MLB The Show.
May 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I really love witnessing my tween start to develop his own musical taste. He’s still figuring it out, but it’s fascinating to see the songs he lands on along the way. Currently: Mr. Bluesky by ELO, misc French hip hop, and Spanish dance music he hears in MLB The Show.
On my 100th day of consecutive reading, I finished my first Stephen King book, which I enjoyed & might not have picked up if not for #BannedBookSkyClub. Looking forward to the discussion threads this week. Read out of your comfort zone sometimes! #booksky @thestorygraph.com @stephenking.bsky.social
May 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
On my 100th day of consecutive reading, I finished my first Stephen King book, which I enjoyed & might not have picked up if not for #BannedBookSkyClub. Looking forward to the discussion threads this week. Read out of your comfort zone sometimes! #booksky @thestorygraph.com @stephenking.bsky.social