Out for fun later, on the sofa with a mystery for now. Tour de Force by Christianna Brand from @britishlibrary.bsky.social. The final appearance of Inspector Cockrill for those of you who care about such things.

A timely request: Check out the hashtag #SpinsterSeptember for a lot of good recommendations! #booksky (My personal rec would be to read May Sarton, novels and journals both. Soooo good!)

Me: Why is your uniform on the floor? Jacob (in the voice of Doc from Back to the Future): Gravity!

Teachable moment! It's called an ʻokina, and though it looks like, and is generally represented by, a backward apostrophe, it's considered, in Hawaiian, and I quote, "a glottal stop consonant." (Hope I got that all right. Fingers crossed.)

Shanah Tovah, New York City. Here's to a sweet and hopeful New Year.

My goodness, she’s a beauty.

My final Elizabeth Taylor (having already read and reviewed the posthumous Blaming), her short story collection The Devstating Boys: 1streading.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/t...

I read some brilliant books in August. Five for #WITMonth and one for #NYRBWomen25. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/a...

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Ultimately, it doesn't make any difference if you commit errors because you don't know how to do things right or because you're typing too quickly. Both are curable conditions, and if getting things right is important to you, then (a) learn, and (b) review your writing before you publish it.

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Slightly flabbergasted that a #kidlit publisher just asked if I wanted to see the files of one of my picture books, now with the finished art, before they send it to the printers. Aside from the contract explicitly stating they would send me proofs, what author *wouldn't* want to see it? #booksky

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

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This is probably a lot more effective than cancelling your Hulu subscription tho of c you can do both.

Do one thing today to help. One thing tomorrow. One thing the day after. Taking a swing at every bad thing happening is just going to burn you out. Remember, if everyone does their one thing the world changes

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

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Go fash, lose cash Disney faces $3.8 billion loss as boycott grows over Jimmy Kimmel suspension | The Express Tribune share.google/HpUFV6JqAoI4...

Slightly diminish a book Lady Chatterly’s Situationship

This verse MG novel, All the Blues in the Sky by Renee Watson, about a teen grieving the loss of her best friend is so good! Excellent book to remind young people about getting through the hard parts of life, giving yourself grace and hope. #kidlit 📚👍🏻 #mg #ya #edusky

🎉🎉👏🏽👏🏽🌈🌈 A WORLD WORTH SAVING is such a great book!

I do wonder if there’s a way to evaluate how much adult literacy has declined and eroded over these last few years as well. I’m almost certain it’s not just the kids.

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Weather is with us all the time - so why not read about it? 🌧️ ☀️ Four #translations of picture books from #China, #Korea, and #Japan are coming out this fall 🍂 📕 have a look at them this #WorldKidLitMonth worldkidlit.org/2025/09/21/w...

"Thousands of immigrant children in government custody are being denied something we expect for every other child in America: a real education." #AFTvoices

To authors thinking of using AI to translate their books instead of hiring a human translator: I strongly recommend you read this excellent article by @averyudagawa.bsky.social on the #SCBWI blog: scbwi.blogspot.com/2025/09/ai-w... #KidLit #Translation

It's particularly terrifying for a group of people who see themselves as the protagonists of history to reckon with the fact that some random guy--an NPC, in the parlance of our times--just randomly killed him for some random-ass reason.

All those people that want to make his death A Big Important and Meaningful Thing are doing that because they see themselves in him, and they worry, deep down, that when they die, no one will care and it won't matter.

That's not a Politics Take. That's a Grief Take. In the aftermath of a death, people want to make it MEANINGFUL, because the alternative (that individual deaths aren't meaningful, they just happen) is too hard to handle. But after a lot of sound and fury, the world moves on terrifyingly unchanged.

Alaa has been pardoned! So happy for him and his family apnews.com/article/egyp...

Love this quote. Alt-text: "Anyone who has time to clean is not reading nearly enough." 😁 #Uplift

“why some people be mad at me sometimes” they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep remembering mine - Lucille Clifton [writing the most Black woman poem of all time]

the Brazilian right is attempting to pass measures through the legislature to shield Bolsonaro and other legislators from the legal consequences of the failed coup, for which Bolsonaro was recently sentenced to 27 years. these photos are of the massive protests in response.

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Drive is REALLY good.

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Yeah, I had to try three sites to cancel Disney+ but the runaround only made me more determined to do it.

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This afternoon’s much-needed read was “The People’s Project,” curated by @theferocity.bsky.social and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social

Some judges come to books more analytically, and others approach them more emotionally. We devised a couple of questions they could ask themselves: What is this book doing? and What is this book doing to me?

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As I've seen it come up, no, authors don't get paid for writing blurbs for other authors. We do it (mostly) to pay it forward and to bring attention to work we think is good. Also, if an editor/publisher tried to bribe me for a blurb, that email would go up here and on my personal site SO FAST

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