RD
@rdreading.bsky.social
Bookseller, Contemporary Fiction Reader, Book Club Organizer, Hiker, Yoga, Foodie, Exhausted Liberal who still believes
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November 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Every win counts!!!!! One upon another upon another……
Huge win for Missouri and for all libraries. Thank you to MASL, MLA, the ACLU, and everyone involved! @la-cac.org #FReadom
www.stlpr.org/government-p...
www.stlpr.org/government-p...
Missouri court strikes down book ban law that pushed libraries to remove hundreds of titles
A law creating a misdemeanor offense for school employees who supply ‘sexually explicit material’ to students is now void.
www.stlpr.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Every win counts!!!!! One upon another upon another……
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You liked, we listened... We took our popular post on how to talk to your kids about banned books and expanded it into a full-length article packed with tips, talking points, and book suggestions your family can actually use.
freedomtoreadproject.org/how_to_talk_to_your_kids_about_banned_books
freedomtoreadproject.org/how_to_talk_to_your_kids_about_banned_books
How to Talk to Your Kids About Banned Books
Talking—you can empower kids to read boldly by discussing why books get banned, reading them together, and modeling advocacy and curiosity.
freedomtoreadproject.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
You liked, we listened... We took our popular post on how to talk to your kids about banned books and expanded it into a full-length article packed with tips, talking points, and book suggestions your family can actually use.
freedomtoreadproject.org/how_to_talk_to_your_kids_about_banned_books
freedomtoreadproject.org/how_to_talk_to_your_kids_about_banned_books
October wrap up. #Booksky #StoryGraph 📚💙 📚🎧 📚🖋️
November 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
October wrap up. #Booksky #StoryGraph 📚💙 📚🎧 📚🖋️
This……….
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This……….
Just finished The Changeling, looking forward to book club prep for this one! Happy to mention that our Feminist Book Club is reading Lone Women too. There is power in the new covers! Spooky reading. @victorlavalle.bsky.social
#booksky 📚💙 📚🖋️
#booksky 📚💙 📚🖋️
October 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Just finished The Changeling, looking forward to book club prep for this one! Happy to mention that our Feminist Book Club is reading Lone Women too. There is power in the new covers! Spooky reading. @victorlavalle.bsky.social
#booksky 📚💙 📚🖋️
#booksky 📚💙 📚🖋️
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🧵 In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country.
Read our new report "The Normalization of Book Banning" at: pen.org/report/the-n...
Read our new report "The Normalization of Book Banning" at: pen.org/report/the-n...
October 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🧵 In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country.
Read our new report "The Normalization of Book Banning" at: pen.org/report/the-n...
Read our new report "The Normalization of Book Banning" at: pen.org/report/the-n...
Preparing to lead 2 book club discussions on this wonderful debut short story collection. Well worth the read! 💙📚 📚🖋️
September 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Preparing to lead 2 book club discussions on this wonderful debut short story collection. Well worth the read! 💙📚 📚🖋️
The TBR list gets longer 🤣
What should you read next? Our editors recommend 15 new novels for your fall TBR!
15 Novels You Need to Read This Fall
The weather is changing (well, sort of), the pumpkin spice lattes are beckoning, the kids are back in school, all of which clearly indicates that it’s big book season yet again. And hey, we m…
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September 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The TBR list gets longer 🤣
1. Quan Barry’s The Unveiling which comes out in Oct. (Spooky Read!)
Who’s up for some Antarctic Horror? (It’s a sub genre I wasn’t even aware of!) A black film scout is on a trip to photograph potential locations for a big-budget movie when everything goes wrong!
Who’s up for some Antarctic Horror? (It’s a sub genre I wasn’t even aware of!) A black film scout is on a trip to photograph potential locations for a big-budget movie when everything goes wrong!
September 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
1. Quan Barry’s The Unveiling which comes out in Oct. (Spooky Read!)
Who’s up for some Antarctic Horror? (It’s a sub genre I wasn’t even aware of!) A black film scout is on a trip to photograph potential locations for a big-budget movie when everything goes wrong!
Who’s up for some Antarctic Horror? (It’s a sub genre I wasn’t even aware of!) A black film scout is on a trip to photograph potential locations for a big-budget movie when everything goes wrong!
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It’s so nice to see my new work in the wild! @victorlavalle.bsky.social classics with new cover designs, now available! Spotted at @bookculture.com
August 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
It’s so nice to see my new work in the wild! @victorlavalle.bsky.social classics with new cover designs, now available! Spotted at @bookculture.com
August 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Good news in a rather bleak week!
Celebrate a huge victory for the Freedom to Read! A judge has struck down most of Florida’s HB 1069, restoring hundreds of unjustly banned books and affirming that blanket censorship has no place in education.
“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill
This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books.
bookriot.com/penguin-rand...
This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books.
bookriot.com/penguin-rand...
August 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Good news in a rather bleak week!
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Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.
Mohawk Skywalkers: The History Stephen Miller Whitewashed
The Kanien'kéhá:ka Haudenosaunee ironworkers were vital to building Miller's favorite monuments to modern America
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.
1) Mott’s follow up to “He’ll of A Book”, which I cannot recommend more, is a bold continuation of an Author’s search for meaning & belonging.
#booksky 📚💙 📚🖋️
#booksky 📚💙 📚🖋️
August 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
1) Mott’s follow up to “He’ll of A Book”, which I cannot recommend more, is a bold continuation of an Author’s search for meaning & belonging.
#booksky 📚💙 📚🖋️
#booksky 📚💙 📚🖋️
The beauty of writing about a child is that you can see the monstrosity of the world adults have built filter through their innocence. But no child stays innocent for ever.”
Great article! Now I am off to the farmers market while it still exists…
Great article! Now I am off to the farmers market while it still exists…
July 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The beauty of writing about a child is that you can see the monstrosity of the world adults have built filter through their innocence. But no child stays innocent for ever.”
Great article! Now I am off to the farmers market while it still exists…
Great article! Now I am off to the farmers market while it still exists…
Brilliant! I could add 50 more books to Ann’s list! Literary fiction is not dead!!! It’s just more inclusive & the voices are broader. Wild wonderful books are out there, just stop in to any independent bookstore, you will literally be tripping over them!
It’s Friday, and if you haven’t read this towering stack of great literature, it’s new to you! This week, Ann mixes it up a bit and responds to an op-ed by David Brooks in the NYT. Is the novel really dead? Read the article, watch Ann’s take, and let us know what you think.
New to You: Literature Isn’t Dead
YouTube video by Parnassus Books
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July 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Brilliant! I could add 50 more books to Ann’s list! Literary fiction is not dead!!! It’s just more inclusive & the voices are broader. Wild wonderful books are out there, just stop in to any independent bookstore, you will literally be tripping over them!
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Rümeysa Öztürk was unlawfully detained by ICE for over six weeks in retaliation for writing an op-ed.
For the first time since her release, Rümeysa opens up about her experiences and advocates for dignity and justice for those still trapped in ICE detention.
For the first time since her release, Rümeysa opens up about her experiences and advocates for dignity and justice for those still trapped in ICE detention.
“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
www.vanityfair.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Rümeysa Öztürk was unlawfully detained by ICE for over six weeks in retaliation for writing an op-ed.
For the first time since her release, Rümeysa opens up about her experiences and advocates for dignity and justice for those still trapped in ICE detention.
For the first time since her release, Rümeysa opens up about her experiences and advocates for dignity and justice for those still trapped in ICE detention.
