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Vivian Taylor (she/her)
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Avid book reader 📚 and devoted tea drinker 🫖

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Thought for the day: (via quotefancy.com)

Text: “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” — Joseph Conrad
Background has a blurry view of trees and the sun, foreground has the following quote via quotefancy.com: “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” — Joseph Conrad
December 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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I'm feeling thankful, blessed, and reading obsessed (today and every day).

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating.

Happy Thursday to anyone not celebrating.

Hope you find some time to read. #HappyThanksgiving
Graphic image of an open book, the words below the book image: "Thankful, Blessed, & Reading Obsessed", and a large and small pumpkin in the lower left
November 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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#WordsOfWisdom
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

Quote text: “If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads.” — Sherman Alexie
Photo of a curved wall of books on bookshelves in the background. Foreground has the following quote via Quotefancy.com: "If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads." Sherman Alexie
November 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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#WVBookFestival kick off!!

Tonight's the 43rd McCreight Lecture in the Humanities featuring Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen at 7:30 PM at the historic Capitol Theater in Charleston.
Free
Doors open: 7:00 PM, lecture begins: 7:30 PM
#WVHumanities #McCreightLecture #CharlestonWV
Red background: West Virginia Humanities Council announces Pulitzer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen live at 7:30 PM in Charleston West Virginia. Photo of author, lower right in front of book cover THE SYMPATHIZER by Viet Thanh Nguyen
October 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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I'm entering this competition and you can too! wn.nr/85rtKMn
GODS OF JADE AND SHADOW giveaway
Win a copy of GODS OF JADE AND SHADOW Shipped anywhere in the world Brand new paperback edition from Arcadia ‘This is historical fantasy at its best’ S.A. Chakraborty, author of The City of Brass ​***...
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October 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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#Wordsofwisdom via Azquotes.com

Text: “I’m a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people’s lives.”
— Ntozake Shange
Left features a photo of Black American author Ntozake Shange; right contains the following quote: “I’m a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people’s lives.” — Ntozake Shange
October 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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EveryLibrary's Executive Director, John Chrastka, discusses why he believes in libraries.

www.everylibrary.org/i_believe_in... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
I Believe in Libraries.
EveryLibrary's Executive Director, John Chrastka, discusses why he believes in libraries.
www.everylibrary.org
September 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Thought for the day: (via azquotes.com)

Text: "All literature is protest." - Richard Wright
Left: black & white photo of a young black male, author Richard Wright; right contains a Richard Wright quote via azquotes.com: "All literature is protest."
September 4, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Within days, the Senate will vote on legislation that would devastate public media. Call your Senators now and urge them to remove public media funding cuts from the rescissions package. bit.ly/3GqqF7y #ProtectMyPublicMedia
Urge Your Senators: Remove the Proposal to Cut Public Media Funding
The Senate will soon consider a rescissions package that would take back approved public media funding. Call your Senators now!
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July 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Trump is doing his best to create division and discord between Muslims and Jews, and joining him is a sustained campaign of propaganda.

Here I prove that Muslims and Jews have had a Long history of peace together—one we must revive on the tenets of justice.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/debunking-...
Debunking Hateful Propaganda about Jews and Muslims
A viral meme claims Jews and Muslims have warred for thousands of years, but the facts prove this myth dangerously false—and the exact opposite as true
www.qasimrashid.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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penamerica.bsky.social
Authorities from the United States to Argentina, Russia, and around the world are targeting books to erase perspectives and restrict speech. This #WorldBookDay, we join @peninternational.bsky.social's call to defend the freedom to read and to end book bans.
April 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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The first two statewide elections of the Trump era have underscored a vital truth:

Libraries are not red or blue, liberal or conservative, left or right—they are essential.

www.everylibrary.org/first_librar... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
Results of the First Library Ballot Initiatives in the Trump Era
www.everylibrary.org
April 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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caffeinatedreviewer.com
It's National Library Week. Now more than ever, libraries are important.
Connect with your library. National Library Week. Plug-in, login, visit, support.
April 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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We need things that make us smile.
www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/buil...
12 Cheeky Buildings Shaped Like Animals
From a crocodile-like hotel to an elephant-inspired skyscraper, these building add a touch of whimsy to the everyday
www.architecturaldigest.com
April 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Want to grab today's deals from Kobo or Bookshop instead*? Affiliate links below! 😊

Your Friday thread of #romancedeals is ready, FREE to $1.49. Happy shopping! 📚❤

*if available
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April 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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March 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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March 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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I recently received a signed print copy of THE GIRL WHO DISAPPEARED TWICE by Andrea Kane. Thanks to the author and @partnersincrimevbt.bsky.social. Now I need to add the remaining titles in the "Forensic Instincts" series to my print library (I have most in my digital library already).

#booksky 📚
Print copy of THE GIRL WHO DISAPPEARED TWICE by Andrea Kane featuring a blurry image of a girl playing hopscotch on a greenish-blue background. The book sits on a brown blanket featuring an assortment of bookish images: an open book, eyeglasses, green plants, a trio of book spines, a cat resting on a stack of books, a coffee/tea mug, wine glass, wine bottle, & vase of flowers.
March 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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If Musk and his Technoboyz can't stop a cyber attack at X, maybe they shouldn't have access to our Social Security? Just brainstorming.
March 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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In 1942, the American President opposed censorship because books were weapons in the fight against tyranny.
March 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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In 2017, Trump gave a $2 trillion tax cut mostly sucked up by billionaires and big corporations.

But it was so expensive, Republicans set many of their tax cuts to end after 2025.

Now, Republicans want to steal from working people to pay for more tax cuts for billionaires.
March 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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penamerica.bsky.social
This week for Shelf Love, an interview series in collaboration with @authorsabb.bsky.social, we talked to @kennedyryan.bsky.social.

Romance is one of the most targeted genres for book bans. Read on to find out why writing for and about marginalized love matters: pen.org/kennedy-ryan...
Romance Can be Resistance: Kennedy Ryan On Writing Romance for the Real World | Shelf Love - PEN America
In this Shelf Love, Kennedy Ryan talks about the importance of romance novels and how to break into a literary landscape gate-kept by men.
pen.org
March 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Other than reading (a lot of reading, 90+ books so far this year), I haven't been very active on social media this year. I've been reading, attending book club meetings, and did some shopping. I treated myself to a new Yoshi Bookworm handbag.
Foreground has a red women's handbag by Yoshi Lichfield featuring colorful book spines: MRS. DALLOWAY by Virginia Woolf, HEIDI by Johanna Spyri, GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen, JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte, LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa May Alcott, TESTAMENT OF YOUTH by Vera Brittain, MARY POPPINS by P.L. Travers, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee, and REBECCA by Daphne DuMaurier. Background: white blanket with red heart BOOKS in the center.
March 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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This needs to be amplified.
February 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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qasimrashid.com
Said it before and I’ll say it again.

Cutting $4.5T in taxes for 800 billionaires but not $1.7T in exploitative student debt for 45M Americans is the modern version of let them eat cake.
February 26, 2025 at 3:54 AM