I'm an astrology skeptic -- except when I desperately need my Dunkin iced and everyone in the nighborhood is also in line and running late for work that morning.

Tragically, the book club kid who declared that China's five hundred year old Monkey King myth was a rip-off of Dragon Ball Z did not come to book club to discuss this more.

Back in my day, we typed out our RPF on a word processor and only shared it with two horny friends, because we had a healthy level of shame and no other option!

Also, I reviewed the book over @cannonballread.bsky.social

I haven't seen as much discourse on Make Believe here, but I figured I'd share my take in case it would do good. A lot of authors have been hurt at the many librarians and booksellers dismissing their issues w/ Barnett's criticisms of the kidlit industry. Here is my reminder to Barnett's champions:

Fascinating thread!

Very depressing reboot of Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince" forthcoming.

I'm excited to report that at this time, days before all of my final wedding payments are due, my credit score is "exceptional."

This is going to ruin the tour. (What tour?) The book tour!

children's librarians rn

YEAH BABY, YEAH!!!!! (I was the teen librarian at Warwick for six months!)(Cuz I had to move)(It's a great library!)

Supreme Court? more like Regime Court, amirite?

I love planning a wedding. It's like being the star of a play that I'm also directing, designing, stage managing, house managing, and funding and that is simultaneously running for one night only/the rest of your life.

If you don't have anything nice to say, don't reply to my comment on this public post, I wasn't even talking to you.

Oooh, now that I'm getting into the nitty gritty of wedding planning, all the problems are popping up! (derogatory)

You can give a hedgehog human teeth, you just have to do it right. Hans My Hedgehog, my newest F*cked Up Fairy Tale, out later today!

Holy POOP this is an incredible cast for a very intriguing premise!

Where and How Book Censorship Is Impacting Children’s Publishing Right Now. Publishing imprints for young readers are shuttering thanks to a softening school and library market. That's the result of book censorship. bookriot.com/book-bans-an...

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

"The century-old library in Stanstead, Quebec [and Derby Line Vermont] that straddles the Canada-U.S. border now has a new door so Canadians can get in after the U.S. limited entry to the building last year." I know a lot of you pitched in. Here's a nice update. 📚 www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Besides being...horrifying?, this is the absolute bullseye of the AI grift. Take something that's free and has always been free -- faith -- and put a price tag on it. If you use any of these tools, you are a sucker, and are being suckered, and the people who make this slop are laughing at you.

Your own personal "Jesus."

ARE YOU IN FALL RIVER MASS AREA? Ahem. I am telling F*cked Up Fairy Tales at Once Upon a Bookstore tomorrow (Sunday 4/12) at 2 PM. We are turning the bookstore into a lil French Fairy Tales Salon - tea, macarons, fairy tales! FREE! RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/liz-gotauc...

One of my favorite things about Frozen, which came out when I was working as a nanny and a teacher, is that ALL the little kids I knew loved it and wanted to play as Elsa, including the boys.

This infuriating attitude shows up on the bookshelves in learning environments, too. We expect girls to empathize with boys, but we kneecap every opportunity to let boys empathize with girls. And look where we are.

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Oof. I don't know what the better word is for G-rated teen material, but "clean" ain't it. America just can't give up that Puritanical outlook.

MASSACHUSETTS, call your Senator! This bill that seems good but is bad. It's poorly worded and too vague, meaning there will be an inordinate amount of overreach and sites that should be readily accessible to all ages will have to require an ID to access. Tell your senator to vote it down!

The @archive.org newsletter is a delight way to stay informed about library news and interesting archival work! (And being a regular donor to them is a great choice too.) Today's newsletter includes info on the impressive work of live music archives and more! empoweringlibraries.org#getinvolved-...

Mom: [to son] And what kind of hyena books would you like? Son: Where they eat each other. #librarylife

NEW EP!: AMELIE (2001) w/ @cosbrarian.bsky.social This one's for the quirky girls! Let's discuss the American obsession w/ the aesthetics of French cinema, the fixation on fixing other people's problems to ignore your own, and a love of photobooths. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

This extremely stupid joke is brought to you by today's episode of @thisendsatprom.bsky.social where the Wives and I discuss the film that defined my AIM away messages for five straight years. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

For a start you need to get informed abt Prairieland. People making noise outside an ICE detention center hit with "ant!fa" terrorism charges. This is intended to have a cooling effect. If you can't care about this I don't expect you got what it takes to really resist prairielanddefendants.com

"Why don't Americans..." they do. There's brave acts happening out of sight everyday. Why don't YOU support them when they get arrested or provide material cover for them?

While we have your attention, here’s your reminder that tomorrow’s episode is on AMELIE and we’re joined by @cosbrarian.bsky.social ! If you haven’t watched the movie in a while, now is the perfect time to fall back in love!

Deep Impact has this shot, when the comet hits the ocean and the tidal wave is destroying NYC, of a guy sitting with his back to the wave reading the paper. I love it so much. He just decided he didn’t believe it was happening, I guess? Or didn’t care? Anyway. He is congress.

Ryan Gosling Wrap Me In Your Giant Cardigan and Warm Me With Your Million Watt Smile Challenge

I'm currently in the "Parents keep asking me for kids book club and then no one comes to kids book club" predicament myself.

The majority of The Last Five Years fans follow the Jamie Sucks/Justice for Kathy POV. It's a more interesting show when you empathize with both. Divorce sucks no matter how amicable. Cheating doesn't make him a bad person. It's a more heartbreaking show when you own that. Anyway, cast me as Jamie.

Looks exactly the same now lol

It’s time to post one of my favorite memes of the year.

Without @thisendsatprom.bsky.social, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's.

Regrettably, all I want to do is make fan edits of Project Hail Mary to Bruno and Gaga's "Die With a Smile."

*cough* RHODE ISLAND

SOUTHEAST MA Frienz! Once Upon a Bookstore in Fall River is hosting me for a F*cked Up Fairy Tale Tea! Storytelling, pastry, independent bookstores! Sunday, 4/12 at 2 PM.

Theatre, like fairy tales, has an accessibility problem that can only be solved with knowledgeable voices at the mic. My talented friend Jillian Blevins worked her family's experience into a new play debuting in Boston this July. Autism Awareness Month is the perfect time to support this production:

AI sucks. Using it to write stuff sucks. Justifying using it to write stuff by saying it allows you to write more stuff sucks. Writing is the fundamental form of human expression and ceding jurisdiction over the written word to plagiarism machines is the death of the human mind.

I'll say it. I've fallen for three April Fools social media posts and it's not even noon. This is how the fascists win.