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Laura Offley
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Hopeless romantic, wife, mother, geek. Bibliophile, library worker, organizer extraordinaire. Canadian with Ukrainian-Scottish roots (I have a backbone of steel). Art and fashion historian. Pro-science. Loves roses, tea & coffee, cats, hiking, and beaches.
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Good news out of Colorado! A Federal judge orders Colorado district to return banned books to school libraries. Good work! www.denverpost.com/2025/03/19/e...
Federal judge orders Colorado district to return banned books to school libraries
The order prohibits the school board from removing books “because the district disagrees with the views expressed therein or merely to further their preferred political or religious orthodoxy.”
www.denverpost.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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March 12, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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I love her advice in this: buy one book, basically any introductory physics book you can find used for like $10, and just work through it for a year.

You'll know more math and physics a year later than basically everyone who ever lived.
how to teach yourself physics
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January 12, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Do me a kindness! Share this if you love and support your local library & librarians (and remember: that includes your school library & school librarian) 😊📚

Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚
January 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Hiya bsky! Fell behind because of a lung infection.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 16
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
Book cover of Margaret Atwood's novel "The Handmaid's Tale". White cover with author and text on top. Main image is a curved tall grey brick wall, wherein two women robed volumnous red robes with peaked white hats walk near the wall. One of the women is carrying a woven basket.
December 17, 2024 at 10:33 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 15
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Book cover of Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's novel "The Secret Garden" illustrated by Graham Rust. The cover features an overgrown garden with a red brick wall. In the wall is a wood door being opened by a young girl with long blonde hair, dressed in early 20th century clothes, black stockings and boots, and a hat with a red ribbon tied around the brim. With her back to us, she is opening the door and peering at what lies behind. Two keys hang down her arm from a rope. The garden has long green grass, an old tree stump, and ivy overgrown on the wall. Amongst the garden foilage are a red robin, a reddish brown mouse and a turtle.
November 28, 2024 at 8:28 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 14
1984
George Orwell
Book cover of George Orwell's novel "1984". In cream the author's name, below that in red the title, below that an eye and part of the face in black and yellow, blurred with lines going through it. Ryas of dim light array outwards from the author's name and title. On a black background, outlined by scrollwork that turns into barbed wire in a cream colour. In each corner a red star, and edged in red.
November 27, 2024 at 8:49 AM
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November 26, 2024 at 4:44 AM
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Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER!
#literacy #libraries #librarians
November 25, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 13
Pawn of Prophesy - Book One of The Belgariad
David Eddings
Book cover of David Eddings' fantasy novel "Pawn of Prophesy: Book One of the Belgariad" featuring a woman with long dark hair and one long strand of white, in a dark robe, holding by the shoulders. The boy is dressed in Viking looking attire. Across from them is a fantasy warrior riding a horse. In the background is the silhouette of a wolf and a faded map.
November 26, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 12
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White
November 25, 2024 at 5:05 AM
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You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.
November 23, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 11
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
First edition book cover of S.E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders". A three colour graphic image in a late 1960s style, featuring black stick-like human figures running across the bottom half of the cover, with a background of red that is styled to look like smeared blood. The top half is the title in black on a tiny quared checkboard background.
November 24, 2024 at 4:30 AM
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Make book spines this again
November 20, 2024 at 1:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 10
The Mists of Avalon
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Book cover for Marion Zimmer Bradley's "The Mists of Avalon" featuring a medieval-looking woman in a dark-coloured gown, long dark hair, riding a white horse, and holding a shining sword aloft. At her side is a white swan swimming through the mists of an outdoor landscape with bullrushes in the foreground and forest and mountains in the background.
November 23, 2024 at 3:41 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 9
Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock
Carolyn Keene
Book cover of Carolyn Keene's Nancy Drew Mystery Stories "The Secret of the Old Clock" featuring a young woman in a green dress with red hair kneeling on the ground, an old wall clock on her lap, the glass front open. It is a night scene and she kneeling on the ground in a forest.
November 22, 2024 at 8:13 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 8
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Book cover of Alice Walker's "The Color Purple". In shades of purple and pink, in silhouette, a black woman sitting in a rocking chair reading a letter in front of a large window partially drawn by sheer curtains. A fading yellow sun is seen through the window.
November 20, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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Yes, libraries are invaluable for their collections and public services they offer, but also social contact without the expectation to interact with anyone or spend any money is so important to so many people
November 19, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 7
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Book cover of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" features a stylized landscape of mountains, a river, a valley and forests seen through graphic images of leafless decidous trees and their root systems.
November 20, 2024 at 7:09 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 6
The Prince
Niccholo Machiavelli
Book cover of Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Prince". Features a Renaissance portrait of a man, his dark hair close shaven, wearing a black over tunic and red tunic showing underneath. He is holding buff-coloured gloves, and his other hand rests on a book on a table.
November 19, 2024 at 12:19 AM
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A pop-art style drawing of a red-haired woman sitting at a table. The words "those lacking imagination can't imagine what it lacking" appear in a thought bubble.
November 18, 2024 at 12:38 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 5
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Cover of Ray Bradbury's book "Fahrenheit 451", 60th Anniversary Edition, red, black and white cover featuring a graphic design of a black book that converts into a box of matchsticks.
November 18, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 4
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
Cover photo of Diana Gabaldon's book "Outlander" - a blue cover with gold title and author's name, with a gold crown surmounted by a gold thistle.
November 16, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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Public Libraries can be wonderful places where children and adults can find books that they can see themselves reflected in, no matter who they are, and books that can introduce them to entire other lived experiences. Both are so valuable!
November 15, 2024 at 10:19 AM