Julie
@mellendamerell.bsky.social
Pro-abortion and pro-keeping all the books on the shelves for everyone. Mom to 2 grown-ups, spouse to another. Grand-something to 2 small humans, 1 dog, 1 cat. @aocchecklist volunteer
for those in the US, from Sabrina Cartran via Rebecca Solnit
January 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
for those in the US, from Sabrina Cartran via Rebecca Solnit
📚👍I was casually reading this, and then. THEN. Stayed in my pjs, closed the book after almost every chapter to catch my breath, kept reading. Still in pjs but couldn't wait to tell that this is an amazing book. Shadows, fear, courage, isolation, community, refusing silence. Being female.
December 13, 2024 at 3:14 PM
📚👍I was casually reading this, and then. THEN. Stayed in my pjs, closed the book after almost every chapter to catch my breath, kept reading. Still in pjs but couldn't wait to tell that this is an amazing book. Shadows, fear, courage, isolation, community, refusing silence. Being female.
Such a beautiful, heart-full book in verse. RED BIRD DANCED by Dawn Quigley (Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe), cover art by Carla Joseph (Métis / Cree): heartbreak, joy, birds, #MMIW, storytelling, overcoming, jingle dancing, thriving in Native community. Meaning is emphasized in font and spacing.📚👍
December 5, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Such a beautiful, heart-full book in verse. RED BIRD DANCED by Dawn Quigley (Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe), cover art by Carla Joseph (Métis / Cree): heartbreak, joy, birds, #MMIW, storytelling, overcoming, jingle dancing, thriving in Native community. Meaning is emphasized in font and spacing.📚👍
👍📚twenty-four seconds from now... SO GOOD! It's a first time love story for Aria and Neon, but it's also a multi-generational family, friend, & sibling love story, too. So many well-written layers. By Jason Reynolds, cover art by Daniel Egnéus. Don't waste another second to buy or borrow your copy.
December 1, 2024 at 4:05 PM
👍📚twenty-four seconds from now... SO GOOD! It's a first time love story for Aria and Neon, but it's also a multi-generational family, friend, & sibling love story, too. So many well-written layers. By Jason Reynolds, cover art by Daniel Egnéus. Don't waste another second to buy or borrow your copy.
👍📚Basil & Dahlia, written by @joymccullough.bsky.social and illustrated by Shane Cluskey, is a delight. I had so much fun reading it! This would also be a fun MG read-aloud I am so glad it made it out of the author's pile of written-long-ago-and-rejected. Cover design by Greg Stadnyk.
November 30, 2024 at 4:37 PM
👍📚Basil & Dahlia, written by @joymccullough.bsky.social and illustrated by Shane Cluskey, is a delight. I had so much fun reading it! This would also be a fun MG read-aloud I am so glad it made it out of the author's pile of written-long-ago-and-rejected. Cover design by Greg Stadnyk.
👍📚How will they learn? By picture books. This is a wonderful, relatively gentle way to learn, through the experience of two best friends, about the lasting harm and division caused by the Confederate flag. Written by @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social, beautifully illustrated by @4nikkolas.bsky.social
November 30, 2024 at 4:31 PM
👍📚How will they learn? By picture books. This is a wonderful, relatively gentle way to learn, through the experience of two best friends, about the lasting harm and division caused by the Confederate flag. Written by @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social, beautifully illustrated by @4nikkolas.bsky.social
👍📚Don't let any more minutes go by without buying or borrowing these two novels-in-poems. I felt too many different, deep emotions about what happened to include share all that. But I understand more deeply how 45's policies will/are tearing people apart.
November 22, 2024 at 10:27 PM
👍📚Don't let any more minutes go by without buying or borrowing these two novels-in-poems. I felt too many different, deep emotions about what happened to include share all that. But I understand more deeply how 45's policies will/are tearing people apart.
November 16, 2024 at 4:10 PM
I'm only on p. 20 of Payal Mehta's Romance Revenge Plot, but I was in love with it before the end of p. 3. And I have never looked forward more to reading footnotes on the page. Do you need a fun book? Buy or borrow this one. @runwithskizzers.bsky.social
October 14, 2024 at 4:49 PM
I'm only on p. 20 of Payal Mehta's Romance Revenge Plot, but I was in love with it before the end of p. 3. And I have never looked forward more to reading footnotes on the page. Do you need a fun book? Buy or borrow this one. @runwithskizzers.bsky.social
In the US, we have a significant election in November. In many states, we are voting on issues as well as for people.
I plan to vote by mail. I've already researched candidates and the proposal on my ballot, so I'll complete it and put it in the mail the next day.
What's your voting plan?
I plan to vote by mail. I've already researched candidates and the proposal on my ballot, so I'll complete it and put it in the mail the next day.
What's your voting plan?
September 27, 2024 at 11:32 AM
In the US, we have a significant election in November. In many states, we are voting on issues as well as for people.
I plan to vote by mail. I've already researched candidates and the proposal on my ballot, so I'll complete it and put it in the mail the next day.
What's your voting plan?
I plan to vote by mail. I've already researched candidates and the proposal on my ballot, so I'll complete it and put it in the mail the next day.
What's your voting plan?
September 21, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Huh. And I didn't think I counted! Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #909,059.
September 18, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Huh. And I didn't think I counted! Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #909,059.
📚👍Just finished THE TENTH MISTAKE OF HANK HOOPERMAN by Gennifer Choldenko, jacket art Chris Choi, jacket design by Katrina Damkoehler. SO MANY FEELINGS. Still crying a little. Much hardship, but more love on these pages. Super read 💙! Make this next on your list & more proof why MG lit is so needed.
September 15, 2024 at 8:15 PM
📚👍Just finished THE TENTH MISTAKE OF HANK HOOPERMAN by Gennifer Choldenko, jacket art Chris Choi, jacket design by Katrina Damkoehler. SO MANY FEELINGS. Still crying a little. Much hardship, but more love on these pages. Super read 💙! Make this next on your list & more proof why MG lit is so needed.
#booksky 💙📚Recent books? Two of mine. Just What to Do, words by Kyle Luknoff, illustrations by Hala Tahboub, is gentle and loving, about how to help someone grieving. I agree that Flamer by Mike Curato is a lifesaver & glad it's on the local library shelf.
August 26, 2024 at 12:13 PM
#booksky 💙📚Recent books? Two of mine. Just What to Do, words by Kyle Luknoff, illustrations by Hala Tahboub, is gentle and loving, about how to help someone grieving. I agree that Flamer by Mike Curato is a lifesaver & glad it's on the local library shelf.
💙📚Just started Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe because Don Tate recommended it.
August 26, 2024 at 12:01 PM
💙📚Just started Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe because Don Tate recommended it.
from January 2021. Hoping for the January 2025 picture of the now 4 year old and her baby sister watching Kamala Harris take another oath of office.
July 23, 2024 at 8:32 AM
from January 2021. Hoping for the January 2025 picture of the now 4 year old and her baby sister watching Kamala Harris take another oath of office.
June 15, 2024 at 12:12 PM
On stage
Three waves to the dark
sea, sure someone she loves
is waving back.
Twelve stares, angry in
darkness, sure someone wants more
than she has to give.
Sixty-four sniffles
amazed her loves step bravely
in the lonely light
#SaturdayHaiku
Three waves to the dark
sea, sure someone she loves
is waving back.
Twelve stares, angry in
darkness, sure someone wants more
than she has to give.
Sixty-four sniffles
amazed her loves step bravely
in the lonely light
#SaturdayHaiku
June 10, 2024 at 11:36 AM
On stage
Three waves to the dark
sea, sure someone she loves
is waving back.
Twelve stares, angry in
darkness, sure someone wants more
than she has to give.
Sixty-four sniffles
amazed her loves step bravely
in the lonely light
#SaturdayHaiku
Three waves to the dark
sea, sure someone she loves
is waving back.
Twelve stares, angry in
darkness, sure someone wants more
than she has to give.
Sixty-four sniffles
amazed her loves step bravely
in the lonely light
#SaturdayHaiku
June 1, 2024 at 11:37 AM
📚👍SAFIYYAH'S WAR by Hiba Noor Khan, with gorgeous cover art by Kaja Kajfež and jacket design by Julia Feingold. My guess is you have not read about the Muslim heroes of the Resistance in WWII. Time to change that. Wonderful, wonderful book.
May 25, 2024 at 5:17 PM
📚👍SAFIYYAH'S WAR by Hiba Noor Khan, with gorgeous cover art by Kaja Kajfež and jacket design by Julia Feingold. My guess is you have not read about the Muslim heroes of the Resistance in WWII. Time to change that. Wonderful, wonderful book.
INFINITY ALCHEMIST by Kacen Callender, jacket art by Chris Sack, Jacket design by Esther S. Kim is incredible. On so many pages, I thought, "That's just like..." in book banning, school curriculum changing news, but it's magical how Callender wraps that into their incredible story. 👍📚❤️
May 20, 2024 at 9:20 PM
INFINITY ALCHEMIST by Kacen Callender, jacket art by Chris Sack, Jacket design by Esther S. Kim is incredible. On so many pages, I thought, "That's just like..." in book banning, school curriculum changing news, but it's magical how Callender wraps that into their incredible story. 👍📚❤️
Another potential life changer is LOUDER THAN HUNGER by @mrschureads.bsky.social. As soon as I finished it, I knew that it had to be available to a young reader, not sitting on my bookshelf, so I donated it to a youth center. It shows the significance of help and a journey to hope.
May 20, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Another potential life changer is LOUDER THAN HUNGER by @mrschureads.bsky.social. As soon as I finished it, I knew that it had to be available to a young reader, not sitting on my bookshelf, so I donated it to a youth center. It shows the significance of help and a journey to hope.
Wonderful books lately. Today I finished MEDUSA: MYTH OF THE MONSTERS by Katherine Marsh, cover art by Kirby Fagan. Terrific story about discovery, strength, collaboration, freedom. Want to do something for a young person? This book could be a life changer. And it's the first in a SERIES! 👍📚❤️
May 20, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Wonderful books lately. Today I finished MEDUSA: MYTH OF THE MONSTERS by Katherine Marsh, cover art by Kirby Fagan. Terrific story about discovery, strength, collaboration, freedom. Want to do something for a young person? This book could be a life changer. And it's the first in a SERIES! 👍📚❤️
Look at the gorgeous packaging of the books I ordered from White Rose Books and More. They send ALL their books like this. I can't wait for the grand one to visit and open them. www.whiterosebooksandmore.com
February 13, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Look at the gorgeous packaging of the books I ordered from White Rose Books and More. They send ALL their books like this. I can't wait for the grand one to visit and open them. www.whiterosebooksandmore.com
things I'm feeling, the exact same things." Substitute "books" for "videos" and there you have it: Books do that, too, and that's why it's so essential, like oxygen essential, to have all the books written & on all the shelves. Wonderful book, cover design & illus. by Cassie Gonzales.
January 13, 2024 at 6:56 PM
things I'm feeling, the exact same things." Substitute "books" for "videos" and there you have it: Books do that, too, and that's why it's so essential, like oxygen essential, to have all the books written & on all the shelves. Wonderful book, cover design & illus. by Cassie Gonzales.