Allison (she/her)
@thebookishroo.bsky.social
Librarian | Lover of Books, Fountain Pens, and Cocktails
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Visited Book Moon Books today. What a great bookstore! Can’t wait to go back!
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July 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Visited Book Moon Books today. What a great bookstore! Can’t wait to go back!
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Spending my day off with a good book, a good drink, and a good snack!
June 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Spending my day off with a good book, a good drink, and a good snack!
Rainy day reading.
April 3, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Rainy day reading.
The Reader sketch
March 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The Reader sketch
Morning sketching
March 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Morning sketching
Love my Traveler’s Company notebook and brass fountain pen.
March 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Love my Traveler’s Company notebook and brass fountain pen.
Currently reading Sick Houses by Laila Taylor
March 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Currently reading Sick Houses by Laila Taylor
@emiliahart.bsky.social’s The Sirens is beautiful and haunting and I couldn’t put it down! It comes out in April and you should go pre-order it now!
March 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
@emiliahart.bsky.social’s The Sirens is beautiful and haunting and I couldn’t put it down! It comes out in April and you should go pre-order it now!
I recently finished Minsoo Kang's The Melancholy of Untold History and have not stopped thinking about it. It is one of my new favorite books!
March 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I recently finished Minsoo Kang's The Melancholy of Untold History and have not stopped thinking about it. It is one of my new favorite books!
Books for International Women’s Day
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March 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Books for International Women’s Day
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Go Luck Yourself by @sararaaschbooks.com is such a fun, joyful, sexy novel and is the perfect sequel to The Nightmare before Kissmas!
March 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Go Luck Yourself by @sararaaschbooks.com is such a fun, joyful, sexy novel and is the perfect sequel to The Nightmare before Kissmas!
I am so excited that my copy of Daughter of Daring by @malloryomeara arrived. As a bonus, it came on the first day of Women’s History Month, the perfect time to read about a badass woman!
March 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I am so excited that my copy of Daughter of Daring by @malloryomeara arrived. As a bonus, it came on the first day of Women’s History Month, the perfect time to read about a badass woman!
This book is amazing, definitely check it out!
My book DAUGHTER OF DARING is out today - the perfect book to read if you’re in the mood to choke a man
February 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This book is amazing, definitely check it out!
January 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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This is really interesting. Groundbreaking study on the value of libraries and “third places.”
“A whopping 82% of people who used the library’s physical space and 79% of people who physically attended programs reported more optimism regarding the future, compared to only 58% of digital-only users.”
“A whopping 82% of people who used the library’s physical space and 79% of people who physically attended programs reported more optimism regarding the future, compared to only 58% of digital-only users.”
Innovative Study by UPenn and NYPL Finds That Public Libraries Positively Impact Community Health and Well-Being
"Our research found that patrons experience refuge, joy, connection, purpose, and expansion through their library use"
bookriot.com
January 24, 2025 at 5:45 AM
This is really interesting. Groundbreaking study on the value of libraries and “third places.”
“A whopping 82% of people who used the library’s physical space and 79% of people who physically attended programs reported more optimism regarding the future, compared to only 58% of digital-only users.”
“A whopping 82% of people who used the library’s physical space and 79% of people who physically attended programs reported more optimism regarding the future, compared to only 58% of digital-only users.”
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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Currently reading The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World by Christine
Rosen
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January 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Currently reading The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World by Christine
Rosen
#booksky #books #reading #currentlyreading #librarian #librarybook2025
Rosen
#booksky #books #reading #currentlyreading #librarian #librarybook2025
Top three 2024 books I read this year!
The Naming Song by Jedediah Berry
The Book of Love by Kelly Link
The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
#booksky #books #librarian @jedediahberry.com @kellylink.bsky.social
The Naming Song by Jedediah Berry
The Book of Love by Kelly Link
The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
#booksky #books #librarian @jedediahberry.com @kellylink.bsky.social
December 31, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Top three 2024 books I read this year!
The Naming Song by Jedediah Berry
The Book of Love by Kelly Link
The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
#booksky #books #librarian @jedediahberry.com @kellylink.bsky.social
The Naming Song by Jedediah Berry
The Book of Love by Kelly Link
The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
#booksky #books #librarian @jedediahberry.com @kellylink.bsky.social
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A gentle gesture of hope, luck and beauty for the holidays and coming new year. (Mus musculis and Comvallaria majalis. )
December 23, 2024 at 8:10 PM
A gentle gesture of hope, luck and beauty for the holidays and coming new year. (Mus musculis and Comvallaria majalis. )
December 25, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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Stuck in an endless queue in Libby? Has way more to do with predatory publishers than anything on the library's side.
Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster "throttle" access to e-books by selling them to libraries for either a limited time or a limited number of circulations — sometimes both.
'Astronomical' hold queues on year's top e-books frustrate readers, libraries | CBC News
More than 1,000 people are waiting to borrow the Ottawa Public Library's most popular e-book of 2024, and librarians say inflated prices and restrictive e-book publishing practices are responsible.
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December 21, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Stuck in an endless queue in Libby? Has way more to do with predatory publishers than anything on the library's side.
10 books that represent me as a reader.
December 22, 2024 at 6:04 PM
10 books that represent me as a reader.
Currently Reading
Dead Air: the night Orson Wells Terrified America by William Elliott Hazelgrove
Dead Air: the night Orson Wells Terrified America by William Elliott Hazelgrove
December 22, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Currently Reading
Dead Air: the night Orson Wells Terrified America by William Elliott Hazelgrove
Dead Air: the night Orson Wells Terrified America by William Elliott Hazelgrove