Literary deal thoughts: why are SO MANY FMCs in books redheads, when only 1-2% of the entire population are natural gingers? Just thinking how cool it would be if Black and other POC got that same level of representation, considering they make up WAY more than 1-2% of the population.
November 25, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Literary deal thoughts: why are SO MANY FMCs in books redheads, when only 1-2% of the entire population are natural gingers? Just thinking how cool it would be if Black and other POC got that same level of representation, considering they make up WAY more than 1-2% of the population.
Never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So never stop sharing books with kids. Never stop reading to them, and helping them to read. Never stop changing lives. #literacy#kidlit#books
November 20, 2024 at 2:24 AM
My kids brag about my book body count to their friends and teachers. At least I’m doing one parenting thing correctly.
Listening to My 11yo smack talk his friends on Fortnite is my favorite hobby. Tonight’s gem: “Bro..listen up…I’m going to say this once, and then I’m going to say it twice.” 🤭
November 20, 2024 at 2:20 AM
Listening to My 11yo smack talk his friends on Fortnite is my favorite hobby. Tonight’s gem: “Bro..listen up…I’m going to say this once, and then I’m going to say it twice.” 🤭
Today’s task (besides tackling the 4 Libby holds that landed overnight) is to migrate my Goodreads to StoryGraph. I can’t extricate myself 100% from the hellhole that is Amazon, but I’m doing all I can.
Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.
November 17, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Today’s task (besides tackling the 4 Libby holds that landed overnight) is to migrate my Goodreads to StoryGraph. I can’t extricate myself 100% from the hellhole that is Amazon, but I’m doing all I can.
I think in the near future, it will be especially important to have effective science communicators. As someone who has been doing this for a while, I thought it might be useful to explain my major principles for science communication that I use in my own work 🧵:
November 16, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Read through the thread. We all need to become professional science educators to combat the professional internet-degree “scientists”.
"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
Ursula K. Le Guin .
November 15, 2024 at 3:09 PM
"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”