@rachellonas.bsky.social
Book lover and book reviewer. Essay writer. Mom. Wife. Literature tutor. Librarian. Loves to write, create, garden, encourage others and be barefoot.
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I joined Twitter in 2022 mainly as a way to thank the authors I did book reviews of and to find poetry for myself and students.
I had a lot saved in my bookmarks when the takeover began. Last week a student read one of the poems I had saved. Hope this platform can bring that joy back! #booksky
I had a lot saved in my bookmarks when the takeover began. Last week a student read one of the poems I had saved. Hope this platform can bring that joy back! #booksky
My latest review from @erbks.bsky.social on The Myth of Good Christian Parenting by @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social and @mburtwrites.bsky.social
"Myth is a reminder for all of us that there are no formulas for great outcomes in this life."
englewoodreview.org/the-myth-of-...
"Myth is a reminder for all of us that there are no formulas for great outcomes in this life."
englewoodreview.org/the-myth-of-...
February 13, 2026 at 3:38 PM
My latest review from @erbks.bsky.social on The Myth of Good Christian Parenting by @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social and @mburtwrites.bsky.social
"Myth is a reminder for all of us that there are no formulas for great outcomes in this life."
englewoodreview.org/the-myth-of-...
"Myth is a reminder for all of us that there are no formulas for great outcomes in this life."
englewoodreview.org/the-myth-of-...
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The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds
Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:57 AM
The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Frey: "You know what I don't want [ICE] focusing on? Hunting down a dad that just dropped his kids off at daycare, is about to go work a 12 hour shift who happens to be from Ecuador. That guy makes our city a better place."
January 14, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Frey: "You know what I don't want [ICE] focusing on? Hunting down a dad that just dropped his kids off at daycare, is about to go work a 12 hour shift who happens to be from Ecuador. That guy makes our city a better place."
Excited to review The Myth of Good Christian Parenting by @mburtwrites.bsky.social and @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social for @erbks.bsky.social.
I was adjacent to this world, but not steeped in. The stories & research could have been written by so many people close to me.
This book is excellent work.
I was adjacent to this world, but not steeped in. The stories & research could have been written by so many people close to me.
This book is excellent work.
January 8, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Excited to review The Myth of Good Christian Parenting by @mburtwrites.bsky.social and @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social for @erbks.bsky.social.
I was adjacent to this world, but not steeped in. The stories & research could have been written by so many people close to me.
This book is excellent work.
I was adjacent to this world, but not steeped in. The stories & research could have been written by so many people close to me.
This book is excellent work.
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Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Merry Christmas!
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My shelves are overflowing with books. My closet can't fit any more clothes, most of which I haven't worn in years. My attic is filled to the brim.
All of the Black Friday shopping deals remind me that I'm drowning in stuff. Are you?
All of the Black Friday shopping deals remind me that I'm drowning in stuff. Are you?
Do we really need more stuff?
A proposal for a recycled economy
robertreich.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
My shelves are overflowing with books. My closet can't fit any more clothes, most of which I haven't worn in years. My attic is filled to the brim.
All of the Black Friday shopping deals remind me that I'm drowning in stuff. Are you?
All of the Black Friday shopping deals remind me that I'm drowning in stuff. Are you?
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Priorities. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Priorities. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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Saw this over on Instagram and wanted to share here. 😌✍️📝
#WritingCommunity #Writers #AmWriting #WIP #Authors #Writesky
#WritingCommunity #Writers #AmWriting #WIP #Authors #Writesky
October 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Saw this over on Instagram and wanted to share here. 😌✍️📝
#WritingCommunity #Writers #AmWriting #WIP #Authors #Writesky
#WritingCommunity #Writers #AmWriting #WIP #Authors #Writesky
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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For the past two years, my school has received a grant for family and community literacy. I have been able to provide hundreds of culturally sustaining books and literacy events in a book desert.
That grant was canceled by the federal government this week.
That grant was canceled by the federal government this week.
September 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
For the past two years, my school has received a grant for family and community literacy. I have been able to provide hundreds of culturally sustaining books and literacy events in a book desert.
That grant was canceled by the federal government this week.
That grant was canceled by the federal government this week.
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EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!!
reactormag.com/reading-rain...
reactormag.com/reading-rain...
Reading Rainbow Is Back, With Mychal the Librarian Hosting! - Reactor
The butterfly is back in the sky; can’t wait to fly twice as high.
reactormag.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!!
reactormag.com/reading-rain...
reactormag.com/reading-rain...
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CHALKBEAT: “Tennessee educators are asking state lawmakers to dial back or alter state testing schedules and requirements… They described scheduling upheaval, teachers stretched thin, and kids stressed to the point of physical discomfort…” www.chalkbeat.org/tennessee/20...
September 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
CHALKBEAT: “Tennessee educators are asking state lawmakers to dial back or alter state testing schedules and requirements… They described scheduling upheaval, teachers stretched thin, and kids stressed to the point of physical discomfort…” www.chalkbeat.org/tennessee/20...
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Libraries provide more than books. Your local library may offer museum passes or discounted admission to recreational activities.
Free Museum Passes at the Library
Did you know that your library card may give you access to events and attractions free of charge?
buff.ly
September 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Libraries provide more than books. Your local library may offer museum passes or discounted admission to recreational activities.
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Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.
September 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.
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Here are four ways anyone can support and help their local library:
• Get a library card ⭐️
• Use your library card 🌟
•Visit the library 💫
•Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨
• Get a library card ⭐️
• Use your library card 🌟
•Visit the library 💫
•Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨
September 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Here are four ways anyone can support and help their local library:
• Get a library card ⭐️
• Use your library card 🌟
•Visit the library 💫
•Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨
• Get a library card ⭐️
• Use your library card 🌟
•Visit the library 💫
•Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨
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Comparative suffering never makes it better.
September 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Comparative suffering never makes it better.
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Nothing sums up America under Republican rule like turning a place of history and strength into a strip mall food court.
September 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Nothing sums up America under Republican rule like turning a place of history and strength into a strip mall food court.
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Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!”
Cities:
Cities:
August 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!”
Cities:
Cities:
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“It's not just they have these personal Christian beliefs about the role of women in the family. It's that they want to enforce those for everybody.”
www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...
www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted the video profiling Christian Nationalist Pastor Doug Wilson, who opposes same-sex marriage.
www.npr.org
August 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
“It's not just they have these personal Christian beliefs about the role of women in the family. It's that they want to enforce those for everybody.”
www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...
www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...
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Searing from the Las Vegas Sun:
"For decades, the Republican Party has insisted that it is the defender of innocent life. Yet after those lives draw their first breath, that supposed moral clarity collapses. In the womb, they are props in a morality play. Once born, they are costs to be contained."
"For decades, the Republican Party has insisted that it is the defender of innocent life. Yet after those lives draw their first breath, that supposed moral clarity collapses. In the womb, they are props in a morality play. Once born, they are costs to be contained."
Republican Party’s policy positions can hardly be described as pro-life
The test of a society’s character is how it treats those with the least power. By that measure, the Trump administration and its Republican allies are failing spectacularly.
lasvegassun.com
August 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Searing from the Las Vegas Sun:
"For decades, the Republican Party has insisted that it is the defender of innocent life. Yet after those lives draw their first breath, that supposed moral clarity collapses. In the womb, they are props in a morality play. Once born, they are costs to be contained."
"For decades, the Republican Party has insisted that it is the defender of innocent life. Yet after those lives draw their first breath, that supposed moral clarity collapses. In the womb, they are props in a morality play. Once born, they are costs to be contained."
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This is so true. Whenever I ask people about the books that really changed their lives, almost always, it's a children's book they remember. They're the ones that make the deepest impact and stay with us forever. That's why I think children's books are the most important books of all!
When I ask friends which books have influenced them the most, nearly every one of them mentions a children's book--at least one and often more.
July 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is so true. Whenever I ask people about the books that really changed their lives, almost always, it's a children's book they remember. They're the ones that make the deepest impact and stay with us forever. That's why I think children's books are the most important books of all!
My latest for @erbks.bsky.social
"Many poems... touch on the universal idea that as children we must use whatever is at our disposal to get our needs met, but as adults we can gently lay down those relationships, harmful thoughts, and triggered reactions that we are learning to outgrow."
"Many poems... touch on the universal idea that as children we must use whatever is at our disposal to get our needs met, but as adults we can gently lay down those relationships, harmful thoughts, and triggered reactions that we are learning to outgrow."
Victoria Hutchins - Make Believe [Review] - The Englewood Review of Books
A Review of Make Believe: Poems for Hoping Again by Victoria Hutchins (Convergent, 2025) Reviewed by Rachel Lonas
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July 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
My latest for @erbks.bsky.social
"Many poems... touch on the universal idea that as children we must use whatever is at our disposal to get our needs met, but as adults we can gently lay down those relationships, harmful thoughts, and triggered reactions that we are learning to outgrow."
"Many poems... touch on the universal idea that as children we must use whatever is at our disposal to get our needs met, but as adults we can gently lay down those relationships, harmful thoughts, and triggered reactions that we are learning to outgrow."