Nancy
@njnreads.bsky.social
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
Passionate about access to books and libraries. “To every reader his or her book.
Every book its reader.” - S.R. Ranganathan
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
October 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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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Like, follow, and share if you love libraries and reading!
Then, take action to support libraries and literacy at action.everylibrary.org
Then, take action to support libraries and literacy at action.everylibrary.org
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Like, follow, and share if you love libraries and reading!
Then, take action to support libraries and literacy at action.everylibrary.org
Then, take action to support libraries and literacy at action.everylibrary.org
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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.
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.
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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.
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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Don’t let this make you quieter.
Get louder.
Get louder.
September 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Don’t let this make you quieter.
Get louder.
Get louder.
The way people are losing their jobs over this is frightening. 😢
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The way people are losing their jobs over this is frightening. 😢
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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.
September 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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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The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
September 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
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. 😊
“What happens to my nervous system when I read a book for an hour is that I become one with that book, and for that hour I’m not engaging with all the issues and problems outside in the world. That, too, is a real gift.”
— @likaluca.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
— @likaluca.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
An Interview with Lisa Lucas - Believer Magazine
The first time I met Lisa Lucas was around 2012, through mutual publishing friends, in the early days after my arrival in New York City. While I was a wide-eyed foreigner trying to cobble together a n...
www.thebeliever.net
August 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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. 😊
These are the posts I love to find on social media. A recommended episode of a new-to-me podcast about books? Thank you!
Should you feel inclined for the smartest deep dive into Anne of Green Gables you will ever hope to find, might I be so bold as to recommend the latest episode of A Good Story Well Told. @jonathanauxier.bsky.social & Matt Bird discuss “The Great Canadian Novel”: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
A Good Story Well Told
How To Podcast · Updated Biweekly · A podcast about the craft of storytelling. Join authors Jonathan Auxier and Matt Bird as they dig up good stories to discover how their authors told them well … and...
podcasts.apple.com
August 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
These are the posts I love to find on social media. A recommended episode of a new-to-me podcast about books? Thank you!
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. 🤞😊
August 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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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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
July 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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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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.
August 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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.
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. 💕📚
Like, follow, and share if you love libraries, books, and reading!
July 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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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Take action to support the Institute of Museum and Library Services at SaveIMLS.org
July 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Take action to support the Institute of Museum and Library Services at SaveIMLS.org
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Trump’s “immigration czar” has been saying for a year that anyone in the US without authorization is a criminal; they repeated this propaganda because they knew people would go along with targeting “criminals.” they always meant more people would be targeted than whoever you think a criminal is.
July 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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‘Morning…Mourning 🌺💔💙🇺🇸🇺🇸💔
July 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
‘Morning…Mourning 🌺💔💙🇺🇸🇺🇸💔
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Sure would be cool if our system of government included some form of checks and/or balances
June 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Sure would be cool if our system of government included some form of checks and/or balances
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![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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6waxgers6k753hgsmh2prmv7/bafkreicwreql25fxq3hliczfe3pgz6djdjbrvwbax2d2oyevjm73tb3voy@jpeg)
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)
“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)
INTO THE RAPIDS launches into the world today! I'm so excited for you to leap into the rapids of life with Addy!
I can't wait to meet readers tomorrow at Anderson’s in IL (tickets required), on 5/15 at Schuler Books in MI, & on 5/23 at the Flying Pig in VT. I hope to see some of you along the way!
I can't wait to meet readers tomorrow at Anderson’s in IL (tickets required), on 5/15 at Schuler Books in MI, & on 5/23 at the Flying Pig in VT. I hope to see some of you along the way!
May 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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)
“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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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.
Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why?
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
May 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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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The Library of Congress is a research library.
You have to be 16 to access it.
Leavitt is lying.
You have to be 16 to access it.
Leavitt is lying.
Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why?
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
May 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The Library of Congress is a research library.
You have to be 16 to access it.
Leavitt is lying.
You have to be 16 to access it.
Leavitt is lying.
😬 This observation is spot on.
I grew up in the 80s so I was taught AI would destroy us in the form of smart killer robots, and humans would mount a resistance to fight them. I didn't realize AI would destroy us by turning our brains off instead, so we would become too stupid to understand the danger.
May 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
😬 This observation is spot on.
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-...
lithub.com/five-novels-...
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…
lithub.com
April 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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-...
lithub.com/five-novels-...
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This is insane. Also this brazen grift must be challenged.
NEW: The Social Security Administration Is gutting regional staff and shifting all of its public communications to Elon Musk's X
read @zoeschiffer.bsky.social:
read @zoeschiffer.bsky.social:
The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
The SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.
www.wired.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This is insane. Also this brazen grift must be challenged.