❄️ 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

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.

absolutely gagged to see IT HAD TO BE HIM on this list!!!

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-...

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

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

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.

NYT, NYPL Announce Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2025 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

THIS

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.

Looking for some January LibraryReads recommendations? Download, read, and vote for your favorite titles for the January 2026 LibraryReads list! 📚👉 tinyurl.com/yc5jw4hw #ewgc

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

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

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

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

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!

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Here's my letter. Share away. Tell the city of Chicago not to cut the library's budget. buttondown.com/papersquared...

I cannot shout enough about how ridiculous it is to cut HALF the collections budget. Not okay.

Viral posts about how Moms For Liberty had zero wins on election night...aren't true. They're misinformation, even dis-info. M4L did have a number of school board candidates win. You can verify that information pretty easily. They had *A LOT* of losses and their power isn't what it once was.

Seeeee, you gotta get that librarian vote, I'm telling you.

How to find food — or help neighbors in need — while SNAP is paused: blockclubchi.co/4nI7m93

I am really trying to get people to understand how much what is happening to our children in Chicago with regard to ICE abductions is like school shootings/gun violence: the random and massive exposure to this particular violence will imprint on a generation and no privilege can fully shield you.

"...a proposed 50 percent reduction in the library’s collections budget ... Those funds are used every year to buy books..." This is insane. As a collections librarian, I cannot imagine my budget being HALVED. (I live in Chicago but work in the burbs) blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/05/l...

For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.

Book banning isn't popular and isn't what parents nor taxpayers want. The average person is sick of hearing about the unhinged sexual fantasies made up by the genital obsessed party.

Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this. But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

❄️ 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...

So proud of my wonderful coworker who served on this committee! What an excellent slate of books.

Genuinely stunned and thrilled to discover that WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES is on the longlist for the 2026 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction! www.ala.org/carnegie-med...

The 2026 Carnegie Medals for Excellence longlist has been announced, and 5 Macmillan titles are in the running! 👉 tinyurl.com/mtpu7ypr

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

Attack of the Best Lists 2025: Barnes & Noble It has begun! raforall.blogspot.com/2025/10/atta...

A VERY GOOD UPDATE!!

Good morning! Here are the November 2025 LibraryReads Top 10 picks as voted on by public library staff across the USA. If your patrons are looking for scrumptious reads, look no further! A printable list is ready for you at libraryreads.org.

And if you need more titles to suggest in November, here are our LibraryReads Hall of Fame picks--these are by favorite authors whose books library staff vote for time and again!

You voted, they counted, and BEST OFFER WINS and THE FORGET-ME-NOT LIBRARY are LibraryReads picks for November 2025! PLUS, Travis Baldree, Adrienne Young, and Nora Roberts are in the Hall of Fame, and SIMPLY MORE is the Notable Nonfiction pick! 📚👉 tinyurl.com/2bmvjhfr

No leader with the best interests of the people comes for the library

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know. findmeatherapist.org

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

Block Club is now on WhatsApp where you can expect weekday updates on ICE in Chicago and links to our latest stories. Every weekday, you’ll get our daily ICE recap, including reports of federal agent activity & our collection of Know Your Rights guides. ➡️ Follow us here: blockclubchi.co/48Zdd6d

doomscroll break

2025 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Finalists Announced Three novels in verse among the five honored titles. www.slj.com/story/2025-N...