Maureen
@elvenjaneite.bsky.social
Reader, crafter, gardener, children's librarian.
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It's time for another edition of #KidLitFaves! This month, features one of my favorites, Renée Watson buttondown.com/singinglight...
Storytime was fun this morning! I read Bright Winter Night, we did Where is Bear, and they made simple paper lanterns.
December 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Storytime was fun this morning! I read Bright Winter Night, we did Where is Bear, and they made simple paper lanterns.
Currently reading 12/7/25 📚
December 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Currently reading 12/7/25 📚
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It's time for another edition of #KidLitFaves! This month, features one of my favorites, Renée Watson buttondown.com/singinglight...
December 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It's time for another edition of #KidLitFaves! This month, features one of my favorites, Renée Watson buttondown.com/singinglight...
okay, THIS is the kind of hockey I wanted to see from the Goldeneyes
December 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
okay, THIS is the kind of hockey I wanted to see from the Goldeneyes
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Intergalactic Mixtape is live! It was Podcast Week, with lots of pods dropping episodes. Plus, some excellent essays and a banging interview between Ann Leckie and Arkady Martine from @speculativeinsight.bsky.social.
Intergalactic Mixtape #31
Hey! This week I welcomed several new books to my house. This was illegal, as I was supposed to be on a book buying ban for December. However, one of the...
buttondown.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Intergalactic Mixtape is live! It was Podcast Week, with lots of pods dropping episodes. Plus, some excellent essays and a banging interview between Ann Leckie and Arkady Martine from @speculativeinsight.bsky.social.
It's time for another edition of #KidLitFaves! This month, features one of my favorites, Renée Watson buttondown.com/singinglight...
December 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It's time for another edition of #KidLitFaves! This month, features one of my favorites, Renée Watson buttondown.com/singinglight...
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This is how I learned my book is on sale. Go buy it! 😂
Season of Love by Helena Greer is one of my faves always! It's only $2.99!
bookshop.org/a/1382/97815...
amzn.to/44GK1Ou
bookshop.org/a/1382/97815...
amzn.to/44GK1Ou
Season of Love
Check out Season of Love - <B>An <I>Entertainment Weekly</I> Best Holiday Romance of 2022</B><BR /><B>A <I>BookPage</I> Best Holiday Romance of 2022</B><BR /><B>A PopSugar Best Holiday Romance of 2022...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This is how I learned my book is on sale. Go buy it! 😂
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Today's #DecRecs is A Song for You & I
Kay O'Neill and gentle graphic novel but the author to the Tea Dragon Society. It's a sweet story about friendship and finding who you are. Also the art is amazing I kept stopping to stare at the color gradients!
Kay O'Neill and gentle graphic novel but the author to the Tea Dragon Society. It's a sweet story about friendship and finding who you are. Also the art is amazing I kept stopping to stare at the color gradients!
December 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Today's #DecRecs is A Song for You & I
Kay O'Neill and gentle graphic novel but the author to the Tea Dragon Society. It's a sweet story about friendship and finding who you are. Also the art is amazing I kept stopping to stare at the color gradients!
Kay O'Neill and gentle graphic novel but the author to the Tea Dragon Society. It's a sweet story about friendship and finding who you are. Also the art is amazing I kept stopping to stare at the color gradients!
lots of yelling "IT'S A TREE" this morning www.cbs58.com/news/book-ta...
Book removed from community reading list in Kettle Moraine School District with some parents concerned over content
DOUSMAN, Wis. (CBS 58) – A New York Times-bestselling middle-grade novel has proven to be controversial in the Kettle Moraine School District. School leaders have since decided to remove it from a com...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
lots of yelling "IT'S A TREE" this morning www.cbs58.com/news/book-ta...
Friday, I guess
📚 Contract Season by Cait Nary
🧶 hat, still
🥘 Lentil soup from Bean by Bean
🎧 First Aid Kit
💭 it's a rough time of year for me, but this week was even more so
📚 Contract Season by Cait Nary
🧶 hat, still
🥘 Lentil soup from Bean by Bean
🎧 First Aid Kit
💭 it's a rough time of year for me, but this week was even more so
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Friday, I guess
📚 Contract Season by Cait Nary
🧶 hat, still
🥘 Lentil soup from Bean by Bean
🎧 First Aid Kit
💭 it's a rough time of year for me, but this week was even more so
📚 Contract Season by Cait Nary
🧶 hat, still
🥘 Lentil soup from Bean by Bean
🎧 First Aid Kit
💭 it's a rough time of year for me, but this week was even more so
Everything I checked out from the library this week: Queen Demon by Martha Wells and Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei.
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Everything I checked out from the library this week: Queen Demon by Martha Wells and Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei.
Hello, friends! It's been a bit of a week over here, but I'm quite pleased with the progress on this hat.
December 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Hello, friends! It's been a bit of a week over here, but I'm quite pleased with the progress on this hat.
Investigating the snow! (I did not let them roam)
December 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Investigating the snow! (I did not let them roam)
November reading review 📚
November was not a great reading month for me, honestly. It’s always a weirdly busy month for us, and I was short on both time and energy. That being said, I reread a number of books as audiobooks, so my total books finished for the month looks fairly high.
November was not a great reading month for me, honestly. It’s always a weirdly busy month for us, and I was short on both time and energy. That being said, I reread a number of books as audiobooks, so my total books finished for the month looks fairly high.
December 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
November reading review 📚
November was not a great reading month for me, honestly. It’s always a weirdly busy month for us, and I was short on both time and energy. That being said, I reread a number of books as audiobooks, so my total books finished for the month looks fairly high.
November was not a great reading month for me, honestly. It’s always a weirdly busy month for us, and I was short on both time and energy. That being said, I reread a number of books as audiobooks, so my total books finished for the month looks fairly high.
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Tomorrow!
November 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Tomorrow!
Currently reading!
November 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Currently reading!
Did not expect the new Knives Out to make me sob in a movie theater but here we are
November 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Did not expect the new Knives Out to make me sob in a movie theater but here we are
Recent additions to my tbr list!
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Recent additions to my tbr list!
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November newsletter is out, featuring a reflection on this year's garden, upcoming books I want to read, and two cool Native artists I learned about this month: buttondown.com/singinglight...
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
November newsletter is out, featuring a reflection on this year's garden, upcoming books I want to read, and two cool Native artists I learned about this month: buttondown.com/singinglight...
November newsletter is out, featuring a reflection on this year's garden, upcoming books I want to read, and two cool Native artists I learned about this month: buttondown.com/singinglight...
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
November newsletter is out, featuring a reflection on this year's garden, upcoming books I want to read, and two cool Native artists I learned about this month: buttondown.com/singinglight...
Thanksgiving meal part 1: mushroom egg bake, smashed potatoes, pan fried asparagus, almond flour cinnamon rolls, bacon, and lots of coffee
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Thanksgiving meal part 1: mushroom egg bake, smashed potatoes, pan fried asparagus, almond flour cinnamon rolls, bacon, and lots of coffee
omg please 😂😂😭😭
someone check on Marcus
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
omg please 😂😂😭😭
Another storytime day! I had a big crowd, so kept it simple--read One-osaurus, Two-osaurus again & did a lot of scarf songs.
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Another storytime day! I had a big crowd, so kept it simple--read One-osaurus, Two-osaurus again & did a lot of scarf songs.
This is a really good essay on romantasy: mareas.binderybooks.com/item/5PNs8Qy...
"You can't brain off for some criticism, and then insist that actually romantasy is serious and should be taken seriously for other criticism."
"You can't brain off for some criticism, and then insist that actually romantasy is serious and should be taken seriously for other criticism."
Bindery Books | not ALL romantasy
but maybe some of it?
mareas.binderybooks.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This is a really good essay on romantasy: mareas.binderybooks.com/item/5PNs8Qy...
"You can't brain off for some criticism, and then insist that actually romantasy is serious and should be taken seriously for other criticism."
"You can't brain off for some criticism, and then insist that actually romantasy is serious and should be taken seriously for other criticism."