Minus the thrillers that my coworker nabbed, my ARC box from @prhlibrary.bsky.social contained these babies. Lauren Groff! A doorstop of Atwood! Etc. @legroff.bsky.social @margaretatwood.bsky.social #ARCs #ReadingAhead #bookhaul #ARChaul #booksky

Just finished HONEYSUCKLE by @barfridmantell.bsky.social and it's terrific! Out in March. What an epic ending.

@bethmacy.bsky.social if so, you know how to get in touch with me!

@bethmacy.bsky.social word has it you might be interested in a discussion about obstacles and opportunities for Appalachian kids with another author about this topic. Maybe in Abingdon, in spring? Let me know what you think!

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

This is priceless, as so much of @theonion.com always is. #amreading #SFF theonion.com/underwhelmin...

I hope @jjbooklvr.bsky.social and @jesstlibrarian.bsky.social don't forget us this time! #ewgc

All right #ewgc peeps, it's time for the pre-chat virtual cocktails and howdy dos! Who's here?

Another hugely helpful post from @jeffreyyamaguchi.bsky.social about DIY book publicity, for all of us in the #writingcommunity who wish we understood the whole publicity landscape better. Particularly fascinated to learn about the monthly #ewgc chat bookpublishing.substack.com/p/spotlight-...?

EarlyWord GalleyChat is today! Follow hashtag #ewgc starting at 4 p.m. EST and discover what upcoming books librarians are excited about. #ARCs #booksky

Reviewed my favorite album of the year www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Newly bereaved and in tatters but wanting to keep up with the things. It was Coldplay cam gotcha, this week it was Colbert/South Park, is there a new weekend thing?

Librarians are public servants creating taxpayers out of non-computer-savvy citizens. I’ve personally created dozens. So even this regime needs us for wealth creation. Getting rid of us is getting rid of GDP. Cynical, but factual. #librarians #SaveTheIMLS

It's been another amazing #ewgc and we shall see all of you here on BlueSky August 7 at 4 p.m. EST, with virtual cocktails and chitchat preceding at 3:30 p.m. In the meantime, read on, my book peeps!

On the TBR for upcoming books: THE WHITE OCTOPUS HOTEL by Alexandra Bell, WHAT STALKS THE DEEP by T. Kingfisher, and undoubtedly some books mentioned here today on #ewgc

Nobody juxtaposes exhaustive research and compassionate activism like @bethmacy.bsky.social. Like DOPESICK, her October 7 nonfiction release, PAPER GIRL, is disturbing but stunning. Part memoir, part social commentary. @prhlibrary.bsky.social #ewgc

KATABASIS had a bit too much trudging through a wasteland when 2025 has felt like same, but now I can't get the good parts out of my head. The ending was particularly choice (sigh!). Kudos to @rfkuang.bsky.social for another banger, and thanks to @librarylovefest.bsky.social for the DRC #ewgc

Fantasy-wise, Naomi Novik just never misses! THE SUMMER WAR is delectable from beginning to end and I love the sibling relationships and how they evolve. Also, fae. Thank you Del Ray, for the DRC and @naominovik.bsky.social for the enchantment. #ewgc

The sheer scope of F*CKED UP FAIRY TALES by Liz Gotauco, with folklore from many cultures, and the snarky off-color commentary within the stories totally won this chuckling reader over! Ended too soon! Thanks to @cosbrarian.bsky.social and @wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social for a fun ride! #ewgc

Compiling #ewgc with three monitors

Guess what your compiler has? THREE MONITORS. One for a Notepad list to cut and paste your usernames into the catalog note fields from, one for Edelweiss and one for Bluesky. #ewgc

Hello #ewgc! Who's here and ready to chat up all the books?

Correction: I have been informed that EarlyWord GalleyChat is in fact 15 years old. In internet terms that's a good while! I'm a relative newbie (and really bad at math)! #ewgc

EarlyWord GalleyChat is where librarians discuss the book galleys (print or digital) that capture our hearts and imaginations. EarlyWord has been "the publisher-librarian connection" for more than 20 years! Check out our lively book chat today at 4 p.m. EST by following our hashtag: #ewgc

I made a book, a very tiny book. On vintage paper with watercolour illustrations and a nonsense verse. If anyone wants to publish it for me I would be overjoyed. This is just a rough to see how it works out

Happy Morning After Canine Nervous Breakdown Eve to all who need more coffee

Good day, dear Bibliophiles✨ art by Naoko Stoop

Whew @bethmacy.bsky.social what a day to be reading your book, as the long-term trends you describe kick into ultra high gear. #PaperGirl ☹️

The singularity is awesome

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place.” —RUMI 💙💙

Everywhere I look, pandering born of fear, without principle. I want to be a fearless woman of integrity who holds her principles tightly and won’t even consider abandoning them.

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif.

It's summer, post a character in a swimsuit! Gotta be these two.

THIS HEAT IS NOT IT. 🙅🏻‍♀️ 🥵

@todayshow.com I want to make sure y'all know that Kanopy and other library resources are not "free." These resources are free to use, but do cost money. That money has been severely cut in many places. Please use your librarians, but also advocate for them and their funding.

We are going to remember this dismal era like McCarthyism—unfavorably.

Maybe because I'm GenX, but I absolutely hate the idea of "trauma dumping." If someone is sharing trauma at a time that it's obviously feeling out of place, they're probably really struggling. Sometimes people are going to make us uncomfortable. Sometimes our own traumas are triggered. That's life

ARCs arrived today from Penguin Random House! Instantly drawn to the Ian McEwan and the Rebecca Ferrier titles. All authors and titles are listed in the alt text. #ARCs #ReadingAhead #galleys #booksky

Left my Kindle at home with the DRC of Katabasis so I started SO FAR GONE by Jess Walter from our New Fiction shelf. It’s just wonderful. @jesswalter.bsky.social did his research on “Christian” Nationalists. May have to blog on this one. #booksky

Toddler just threw a tantrum over not wanting to leave the library and I’m like kid, I totally get it.

I’ve started Katabasis by R. F. Kuang. Fully expect to love it. #sff #booksky

On the bright side, this regime is so extreme that protest signs practically write themselves. NO KINGS. NO WARS.

I have a son in the army. #ImpeachAndRemove

Five things to remember about war:

I was in the entertainment feed, watching episode 44 of The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon and monitoring ambient audio for keywords in the unlikely event that a human said something important.

My graphic design teacher in library school told me I was terrible, with no artistic talent or sense of spatial layout whatsoever. Guess what I spent most of my time at work doing this week? Canva and Gimp is all I have to work with; we can’t afford Adobe. #design #PR #librarian #librarysky

On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.

This sticker very much spoke to me as I succumbed to the #stokercon dealer room temptation and added yet another book to the pile.

"For so long, we have regarded the consumption of Harlequin paperbacks as nigh pathological on the part of women, when in fact, it was the rejection of romance that typified the pathological condition beginning to emerge in American culture at large."