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Lindsey Keown ✨
@mskeown-reads.bsky.social
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📖 Middle School Librarian
👩🏻‍🎓 M.Ed. Reading Instruction
✍️ Literacy Specialist
🐶🐱 Dog & Cat Mom
🧶🌱🥾 among other things
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BIG DAY TODAY 🎉🎉 Technically earned this badge before May was over (brag much?), BUT today I finished every possible badge in the @focolibrary.bsky.social adult #SummerReading challenge, including the July-only activity badge 🤓, & am feeling very satisfied w my public-library-loving self 🥰 💅📚
July 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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I do so much *breathing* in the summer—and that’s it, isn’t it? That’s what I’m missing the rest of the year, I think? Just having the time to notice where you are when you’re there, & to feel gratitude for your breath, your body, and the simple beauty that this world has tucked away within it. 🌅 🌲
July 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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🔑 takeaways from ch 1 of Developing Digital Detectives. 💙ing the balance of background info (like how marketing strategy transfers to journalism & the breakdown of the wall between newsrooms & advertising w/I journalism spheres) w/ practical application (actual resources!) of stepped lessons #TLSky
July 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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My reading life this summer has been a balanced mix of personal preference, book club picks, & #HelenRuffin #ReadingBowl titles, most of which have pleasantly surprised me with their complexity. 💕 Thankful for another (almost) full month of #SummerReading ahead. #BookSky #ReaderSky #TLSky
A collage of book covers for titles read during the month of June: God of the Woods; Bye Forever, I Guess; Anxious People; Mid-Air; Atmosphere; The School for Invisible Boys; And Then, Boom!; The Many Lives of Mama Love; Homegoing; Not Nothing; and The Murmur of Bees. An infographic depicting various aspects of my June reading life, including number of books read (11); number of pages read (3,830); and average rating of the books (3.83). My highest rated reads were Anxious People (4.5); Bye Forever, I Guess (4); and Atmosphere (3), and their book covers are displayed alongside their ratings. There is a pie chart depicting my fiction (91%) to nonfiction (9%) breakdown, and a bar graph showcasing the number of titles by genre and/or category: middle grade (5), historical fiction (4), literary (3), mystery (2), and LGBTQIA+ (2). Another pie chart shows my print (55%) vs audio (45%) dispersion, and another chart displays my pages read per day. The last chart, however, is inaccurate, as I don’t record daily pages read in StoryGraph, the app that created the infographic.
July 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Wherever she leads, I’ll go.✨ Morning rituals are cleansing, & I hate that my favorite one— walks in public parks w my dog, June— goes away each year when school starts. I suppose it does make me that much more appreciative of the time we have w this routine; it’s “not nothing,” as Josey would say.
Sun rays poke past an edge of trees on a walking path in a public park. The path has greenery and trees on each side, and there is a black dog on a leash leading the way in the bottom right corner of the picture.
June 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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I mean, 😮‍💨, #HelenRuffin #ReadingBowl is straight up trying to kill me 💔 We’re 70% done with Lisa Fipp’s And Then, Boom! & neither me or the mouse in my pocket is ready to name which emotion we feel most: hope, appreciation, heartbreak, absolute fury? More 💭 ⬇️ #TLSky #KidLit #BookSky #ReaderSky
The book cover for Lisa Fipps’ middle grade novel, And Then, Boom! which depicts a kid struggling to hold up a giant storm cloud against a light blue background with the title written in bright red font.
June 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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My kind of Tuesday at @thefoxtheatre.bsky.social #BroadwayinATL
June 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Came back from the #GLMASI25 conference as a walking @beanstack.bsky.social ad & I’m fine with that @glma-inc.bsky.social 👏👏👏 to companies with 🔥 swag, aka bags with ZIPPERS! #ReaderSky #BookSky
June 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Oh no, started my next #HelenRuffin #ReadingBowl book this morning & this one is going to have me crying, I already know. #ReaderSky #TLSky #MiddleGrades #MGLit
June 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Had a fabulous time at @glma-inc.bsky.social Summer Institute learning, laughing, & leading w my #SchoolLibrarian people ✨ Met an awesome crew of TX librarians, went on a 🚢, presented twice, fangirled over authors Jerry Craft, Nic Stone, HD Hunter, Dave Valeza, Antwan Eady, & Shanna Miles🤩#GLMASI25
June 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Presenting with @media-and-mayhem.bsky.social is a dream & we loved the opportunity to offer a speed run of our (very similar) library programs at #GLMASI25 this afternoon! Now to get ready for the riverboat award cruise 🚢 @glma-inc.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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3rd summer 📖 from our #HelenRuffinReadingBowl list, & 3rd 📖 w/ the #SchoolLibrary acting as safe space for crucial relationship-building & overall plot & character development. Love to see our school libraries recognized & celebrated in fiction for the roles they play in our kids’ real lives. #TLSky
Cover of middle grades novel Mid-Air by Alicia Williams— a boy illustrated in watercolor-style doing a kick flip on a skateboard in the center of a mostly white background Cover of the middle grades novel Bye Forever, I Guess by Jodi Meadows— a beige background with six different characters of varying genders and ethnicities, all outfitted in gear common to MMORPG games Cover for middle grades novel The School for Invisible Boys by Shaun David Hutchinson — a dark purple background of school lockers with students standing against them chatting. An “invisible” boy is running down the hallway with wisps of some invisible force trailing behind.
June 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Fredrik Backman vacillates between the utter absurdity and the gut punch that is life/humanity, and I’ll never not be here for it. 😭🫠 🙌 Here’s hoping the 70+ patrons ahead of me on library hold for his newest are all fast readers! 🤞 #BookSky #ReaderSky
June 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Well, I guess this is just where we’ll all be for a bit then. It’s summer break; I don’t make the rules. #ReaderSky #BookSky #TLSky
A dog and cat curled up on the couch atop a crochet blanket under which resides a reader whose book is partially in view: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
June 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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3/4ths done & am loving this perfectly-middle-school read ab gamer & fantasy stan, Ingrid, & her navigation of middle school friendships & first crushes. Her grandma is 1️⃣ of my fave minor characters ever 💚 It’s giving You’ve Got Mail but for MMORPG teens not born in the 1900s. 🤣🤓😍 #TLSky #BookSky
June 6, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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So pumped about learning from everyone and co-presenting with the master presenters @media-and-mayhem.bsky.social and @msfordfierce.bsky.social in our sessions at #GLMASI25 in a couple of weeks! Who will we be seeing there?! 👋 @glma-inc.bsky.social
A colorful “I’m Presenting!” graphic with pictures of Lindsey Keown and Bridget Bryson to promote their GLMA Summer Intitute presentation titled “Library Programming for Every Purpose.” A colorful “I’m Presenting!” graphic with pictures of Lindsey Keown and Meggan Ford to promote their GLMA Summer Intitute presentation titled “Stitching Connections: Weaving Sewing Into Your Makerspace.”
June 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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And 2️⃣: a favorite library kid/student of mine came in absolutely ✨glowing✨ one day last semester— she’d just finished the book & was positively gushing about how proud she was of Jake, how good the book was, & how much it meant to her 🥰
June 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Picked this one up for 2 reasons: 1️⃣ We are SO excited to have @mrschureads.bsky.social as an author keynote at @glma-inc.bsky.social Summer Institute this month! 🤗🤗 #GLMASI25 There’s still time to register, GA, SC, FL, & other #SchoolLibrarians!
June 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Finished @mrschureads.bsky.social’s Louder Than Hunger recently & my middle school self has potentially never felt more seen than when Kelleah hands him that mixtape & recites the track list 🥹😭 The specificity of that list to that time period & those feelings? 🧑‍🍳💋 #ReaderSky #BookSky
A screenshot of an audiobook playing on the phone. The book is Louder Than Hunger.
June 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Enjoyed a meetup with @media-and-mayhem.bsky.social this AM which started on the pickleball court and ended in a cafe to plan out our presentation for @glma-inc.bsky.social Summer Institute, which is coming soon! Don’t miss it, GA librarian friends! 🍑📚🛥️
May 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Didn’t do as great of a job with tracking daily reading sessions this month so that graph is a bit skewed, but it’s May and we’re all just trying to survive, right? #ReaderSky #BookSky
A graph breakdown of my reading for the month of May, which shows book covers, genres, and time spent reading during the month. This month’s reads were Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao, The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue, Louder Than Hunger by John Schu, and James by Percival Everett (cover not pictured on graphic).
May 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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When you’re drinking water for breakfast out of your late grandmother’s vintage glassware & you realize the glass is (serendipitously) spot-on for the current weekend’s festivities & also a history lesson #KentuckyDerby #KentuckyDerbyHistory
A water glass on a marble kitchen table with a set of French doors in the backdrop. The water glass has a picture of a horse and jockey in the center and the words “Kentucky Derby” written across the top in yellow font with green background. The same font and background is used to inscribe the date of the derby from which this glass was issued: 1981. The back side of the same water glass, which lists previous Kentucky Derby winners by horse name, dating back to 1875
May 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Tbh @thefoxtheatre.bsky.social IS Neverland to me 🧚🏻 🏴‍☠️ 🏝️ 🐊 ⭐️
May 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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📚 April Reading Wrap-Up 📚 @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social’s Tuberculosis book blew my mind again & again, Haymitch’s story broke my heart, Ballad of Songbirds reminded me how much I hated it the 1️⃣st time, & Annie Bot kept me in discomfort, waffling around in my thoughts. #ReaderSky #BookSky
A collection of graphs, stats, and figures representing the summary of my time spent reading in April: 7 books, 2051 pages, 3.38 average rating. John Green’s Everything is Tuberculosis was my highest rated at 4.5/5, with Beyond That, The Sea and Sunrise on the Reaping coming in with second-highest ratings of 4.0/5. A display of the 7 book covers for titles read in April: Annie Bot; Everything is Tuberculosis; Sunrise on the Reaping; Battle of Songbirds and Snakes; My Year of Rest and Relaxation; Beyond That, The Sea; and The Lemonade Wars Graphic Novel.
May 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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A morning walk in the park after a night of rain when everything is vibrantly green & the birdsong is effervescent always reminds me of how little is necessary to feel contented, inwardly joyful. 🌱
A black dog extends from a leash, walking down a paved path in a lush, green, forested setting (a neighborhood park).
May 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM