Jenna Marie
@jennamariekittycat.bsky.social
librarian, book critic, cat caretaker, chicagoan. fan of tea and pop culture.
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Christmas Movies 2025
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❄️ Tis the season!!! ❄️ My Christmas Movies 2025 spreadsheet is here! I'll add my snowflake rating and write mini reviews as I watch, and I'll also thread them here. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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November 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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This is real. Our govt is Tweeting like a 14 year old and calling Americans imbecilic morons. We worry about children being bullied but this is the example set by the U.S. GOVERNMENT. This is so shameful. I’m embarrassed for any of you that think this is okay or make excuses for it.
November 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This is real. Our govt is Tweeting like a 14 year old and calling Americans imbecilic morons. We worry about children being bullied but this is the example set by the U.S. GOVERNMENT. This is so shameful. I’m embarrassed for any of you that think this is okay or make excuses for it.
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Oh wow. We have lost a legend. Much love to her and her family. Heartbreaking
🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1
November 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Oh wow. We have lost a legend. Much love to her and her family. Heartbreaking
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❄️ We are getting ready to vote for the JANUARY 2026 LibraryReads list! Yikes! Where did the year go?!
Reminder to get your votes in for the January list by December 1st!
🔗 Find the full list of recommendations here: bit.ly/49Suy14
Reminder to get your votes in for the January list by December 1st!
🔗 Find the full list of recommendations here: bit.ly/49Suy14
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
❄️ We are getting ready to vote for the JANUARY 2026 LibraryReads list! Yikes! Where did the year go?!
Reminder to get your votes in for the January list by December 1st!
🔗 Find the full list of recommendations here: bit.ly/49Suy14
Reminder to get your votes in for the January list by December 1st!
🔗 Find the full list of recommendations here: bit.ly/49Suy14
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Many thanks to Kelly for including my letter!
The city’s rationale for cutting the library’s budget makes absolutely no sense. We need Chicagoans to stand up and get loud about this.
The city’s rationale for cutting the library’s budget makes absolutely no sense. We need Chicagoans to stand up and get loud about this.
The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago.
These are *easy* and *vital* things. Let's save CPL's budget.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
These are *easy* and *vital* things. Let's save CPL's budget.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
The People Want To Read: On Massive Budget Cuts Proposed in Chicago
If passed, Chicago Public Library will lose half their budget for acquiring new books and materials.
buttondown.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Many thanks to Kelly for including my letter!
The city’s rationale for cutting the library’s budget makes absolutely no sense. We need Chicagoans to stand up and get loud about this.
The city’s rationale for cutting the library’s budget makes absolutely no sense. We need Chicagoans to stand up and get loud about this.
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absolutely gagged to see IT HAD TO BE HIM on this list!!!
Best Books of 2025: Our Favorite Fiction | Kirkus Reviews
Editor Laurie Muchnick introduces our list of the year’s top titles, from literary fiction to historical romances, cozy mysteries, and blockbuster fantasies.
www.kirkusreviews.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
absolutely gagged to see IT HAD TO BE HIM on this list!!!
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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CHICAGO. Now is the time to support our library system! There are so many clear ways to help in this letter! Let's go!
The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
The People Want To Read: On Massive Budget Cuts Proposed in Chicago
If passed, Chicago Public Library will lose half their budget for acquiring new books and materials.
buttondown.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
CHICAGO. Now is the time to support our library system! There are so many clear ways to help in this letter! Let's go!
Just finished the tv show The Lowland. EXCELLENT
November 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Just finished the tv show The Lowland. EXCELLENT
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A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.
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NYT, NYPL Announce Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2025 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
NYT, NYPL Announce Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2025
In its 73rd year of highlighting children’s books, the 'New York Times Book Review' and the New York Public Library have announced the 10 winners of the Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award.
www.publishersweekly.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
NYT, NYPL Announce Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2025 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
THIS
"It's part of a fascist project to offload the work of thinking... If we can offload that cognitive work, it's far too easy to become reflexive and hateful, while having a robot cheerleader telling you that you were right about everything all along.”
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 AM
THIS
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Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
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Looking for some January LibraryReads recommendations? Download, read, and vote for your favorite titles for the January 2026 LibraryReads list! 📚👉 tinyurl.com/yc5jw4hw #ewgc
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Looking for some January LibraryReads recommendations? Download, read, and vote for your favorite titles for the January 2026 LibraryReads list! 📚👉 tinyurl.com/yc5jw4hw #ewgc
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Thanks for chatting today, #EWGC Community! We hope you've found something to add to your TBR pile. If you want more rec's and links to eGalley downloads, be sure to head here: www.simonandschuster.net/m/adult-libr...
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Thanks for chatting today, #EWGC Community! We hope you've found something to add to your TBR pile. If you want more rec's and links to eGalley downloads, be sure to head here: www.simonandschuster.net/m/adult-libr...
I recently saw the opera Medea (excellent), so now I'm very interested in NO FRIEND TO THIS HOUSE by Natalie Haynes-- a new imagining of the Greek myth of Medea. #ewgc
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I recently saw the opera Medea (excellent), so now I'm very interested in NO FRIEND TO THIS HOUSE by Natalie Haynes-- a new imagining of the Greek myth of Medea. #ewgc
speaking of sci-fi, also very intrigued by WHAT WE ARE SEEKING by Cameron Reed- queer scifi marketed as for fans of Ann Leckie. seeing really good reviews and buzz. #ewgc
November 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
speaking of sci-fi, also very intrigued by WHAT WE ARE SEEKING by Cameron Reed- queer scifi marketed as for fans of Ann Leckie. seeing really good reviews and buzz. #ewgc
news about the louvre put anyone else in a heist story mood? excited for sci-fi novella AND SIDE BY SIDE THEY WANDER by Molly Tanzer. "An intergalactic art heist by a ragtag group of underqualified misfits. What could go wrong?" #ewgc
November 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
news about the louvre put anyone else in a heist story mood? excited for sci-fi novella AND SIDE BY SIDE THEY WANDER by Molly Tanzer. "An intergalactic art heist by a ragtag group of underqualified misfits. What could go wrong?" #ewgc
very much looking forward to Melissa Albert's upcoming book for adults! THE CHILDREN. "the estranged adult children of a legendary author, written into their dead mother’s beloved fantasy series, contend with the vine-like creep of legacy, memory, and magic."-- what a hook! #ewgc
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
very much looking forward to Melissa Albert's upcoming book for adults! THE CHILDREN. "the estranged adult children of a legendary author, written into their dead mother’s beloved fantasy series, contend with the vine-like creep of legacy, memory, and magic."-- what a hook! #ewgc
I am in awe of Jenny Tinghui Zhang. SUPERFAN was so different from her first book but equally as captivating. will be great for discussion. #ewgc
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I am in awe of Jenny Tinghui Zhang. SUPERFAN was so different from her first book but equally as captivating. will be great for discussion. #ewgc
winter olympics are just around the corner, and SKATE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT by Rufaro Faith Mazarura is perfect for the season! really delightful romance. #ewgc
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
winter olympics are just around the corner, and SKATE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT by Rufaro Faith Mazarura is perfect for the season! really delightful romance. #ewgc
top of my TBR: SEEK THE TRAITOR'S SON by Veronica Roth- I've enjoyed several of her books in the past and I love a good sweeping, epic fantasy! #ewgc
November 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
top of my TBR: SEEK THE TRAITOR'S SON by Veronica Roth- I've enjoyed several of her books in the past and I love a good sweeping, epic fantasy! #ewgc
hey #ewgc! jumping in a little late. tbh, haven't read much adult stuff in the last month. in a bit of a rut. but looking forward to seeing what you all have been excited about!
November 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
hey #ewgc! jumping in a little late. tbh, haven't read much adult stuff in the last month. in a bit of a rut. but looking forward to seeing what you all have been excited about!
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Chicago ranks near the bottom in what we invest into our collections, even at current funding levels. Among the nine largest library systems serving populations of over 2M residents, CPL ranks second lowest in terms of spending per resident. This cut WILL put us at the bottom. 3/3
November 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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