couldn't handle packing a lunch today. ran out to buy a rotisserie chicken to devour. carried it out of the store & immediately bumped into a storytime family.

Jo March the Chicken is molting pretty dramatically, so I keep saying, "oh, Jo, your one beauty!" at every opportunity

It's that time of year, so if anyone is book shopping for kiddos and wants some specialized recommendations, feel free to ask me! I love children's books and recommending things!

I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott

Dinosaur music & movement storytime this morning! We had a crowd, so I tried to keep everything engaging & moving quickly. Book: One-osaurus, Two-osaurus by Kim Norman Songs: Dino Pokey, Dino Stomp, I'm a Little Dino #storytime #childrenslibrarian

This (and the nested thread, click through to see it) is exactly the kind of low-stakes drama I needed to see today.

I've had very little brain for reading this week, but I did finish a group read of Rachel Reid's The Long Game!

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

look, when you have Indiana Republican lawmakers saying redistricting has gone too far & they won't support it...

It's my anniversary & I'm spending the morning at home, listening to The Raven Tower and drinking coffee!

I'm scream-laughing: a library kid I've known since she was a baby came in with grandpa tonight & I said hi and mentioned how big she's getting. Grandpa laughed and said, yeah, she is. Kid looks up at me and goes, "Do I KNOW you?" in the sassiest way imaginable. 😂

He slumbers so peacefully

Well, we finally finished the last episode of Derry Girls, so now I'm emotionally devastated on a Monday evening

Currently reading...except I haven't even started 3 of them, so maybe it's actually about to read? 😂

November 9!!

somehow, the colts have won again

TOO real. ;)

Finishing up these hats to drop off at a winter clothing drive later this week!

Intergalactic Mixtape is live! 🥳

Friday! 📚 North Continent Ribbon 🌿 Hard freeze is coming 😭 🥘 chicken soup! 🎧 finally finished Hild! 💭 trying to ease back into everyday life after traveling

Oh gosh, I have a lot. The Perilous Gard Ancillary Justice Black Water Sister Always Coming Home We Are Okay The King of Attolia The Girls at the Kingfisher Club Code Name Verity The Scorpion Rules Memory

The second #KidLitFaves is out! This month focuses on Meg Medina, author of wonderful picture books and chapter books (and YA too 😂) buttondown.com/singinglight...

The second #KidLitFaves is out! This month focuses on Meg Medina, author of wonderful picture books and chapter books (and YA too 😂) buttondown.com/singinglight...

View from my window 🍂

All the books I bought on vacation+ some chicken stickers I couldn't resist

SO excited to delve into this

I'm traveling right now, so no fancy thread for my favorite books of October. But here they are anyway!

Also I got to horrify R by introducing him to Brutus the Buckeye tonight

all of my libby holds are coming in at once 😭

I finished The Forgotten Summer of Seneca by Camryn Garrett yesterday & found it fascinating. A girl visiting her aunt in NYC discovers a magical village descended from the original inhabitants of Seneca Village, a primarily Black community demolished so Central Park could be built.

Whew. (Notes From a Regicide)

I let the chickens out to roam while I checked on the last vegetables in the garden and they followed me all over the yard! And ate some radish greens right out of my hand (only pecked me twice 😂)

Hat! I really like the effect that using two colors for broken seed stitch produces!

Very disappointed that R did not take me up on my suggestion of doing his storytime this morning as the Count from Sesame Street

Ursulaaaaaa (from No Time to Spare)

I have a lot of thoughts about myth/fairy tale retellings right now and how many of them seem to be reflecting a regressive sensibility vs the explicitly feminist retellings of past decades...but I think to be reasonable, I'd have to actual read a bunch and I simply don't want to.

My currently reading: Notes From a Regicide; No Time to Spare; The Gate, The Girl, and the Dragon; The Forgotten Summer of Seneca

Fall around the garden!

Are you really human if you don't say, "ooh, that was a good yawn" to your cat at every opportunity?

October newsletter is out! Featuring thoughts on the end of the gardening season, upcoming middle grade sff, and a shawarma update: buttondown.com/singinglight...

October newsletter is out! Featuring thoughts on the end of the gardening season, upcoming middle grade sff, and a shawarma update: buttondown.com/singinglight...

Happy Saturday! The weather finally turned chilly here, so all I want to do is drink tea, snuggle a cat, and read. Still working on Hild, just finished Tomb of Dragons. What about you?

Intergalactic Mixtape is live! This week, there’s a special section on the @ursulakleguin.com Prize for Fiction, with links to a collection of reviews for the winner, Rakesfall.

I have today off work, so I'm lying in bed with a sleepy cat & reading 💜

Have I spent the last 5 minutes talking up women's hockey to work pals and ranting about how Byron sucks to R? Yes, that's who I am as a person.

Does anyone else have books you're afraid of revisiting in case they turn out to not be as good as you remember? I think that's Rosemary Sutcliff for me. I want to reread them, but I want to remember them fondly more.

Hat report!

some very interesting thoughts here!

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

Currently listening to: Hild by Nicola Griffith! It's been years since I read this one & I'm enjoying the audiobook so far.