The January 2026 #BannedBookSkyClub book is #TheirEyesWereWatchingGod by Zora Neale Hurston. I will start sharing talking points Thursday, January 15, 2026 (or possibly the night before depending on my schedule). Please join us! Link to feed in replies. #BookSky

See, state secret.

The number of books I've read this year is actually a state secret, so I won't be sharing. Sorry.

I once said it's okay to throw a book across a room if it makes you angry and some people got angry.

I'm at the point of holiday eating where pizza would be a healthy choice in comparison.

We have an old elf on the shelf that belonged to my boyfriend's parents. He creepy.

You can't spell something wrong without the pedants coming out.

Whelp, I finished reading The Stand. It was good. Not my regular genre, but I've been branching out since starting a book club (regular genre was books by people who have been dead a while).

Honestly, if not for my phone, I would not know what day of the week it is.

I don't listen to audio books. I'm visual & listening to words is like work to me, probably since hearing & auditory processing issues run in my family. I love a good read on a printed page. We're all different, and whichever way we want to consume books is a personal choice. Just don't eat them.

Working in libraries for decades, I checked out and read a lot of books. Now, I just want to buy books.

There is no such thing as a spinster, and especially no such thing as a librarian spinster, it's but a social construct meant to shame women into marrying and procreating.

I like how Marketplace has the option to hide from friends. Handy if you're selling a gift from a friend.

Breakfast for lunch.

Sometimes you read a book and there are so many coincidences you'd think you were watching a Kdrama. #BookSky #Kdrama

Watched White Christmas last night. Apparently, there are people who think Mitzi Gaynor played one of the leads, even the @librarycongress.bsky.social Vera-Ellen was in the movie, not Mitzi Gaynor.

I talked to a high school football player yesterday, son of a friend, and he thinks Indiana is over-rated and Alabama is going to beat them.

I've taken up caffeine again. But only before noon.

The weird thing about holidays is eating at odd times, like a 3pm supper after a noon lunch and 10am breakfast. Do I eat an 8pm second supper?

A long time ago at a bluegrass music festival I met a preacher's wife who told me she was reading Danielle Steel novels and she thought it was okay for her to read them since they weren't too steamy or explicit.

Netflix execs asking why this game wasn’t canceled after the second quarter

Holiday meal in which the only vegetable is green beans cooked with bacon or ham, but hey, I didn't have to cook. .

It's a wrap....amazing!

M-O-O-N spells Merry Christmas! #BookSky

Random thoughts while reading The Stand: Dickens: I wrote long books. King: Hold my beer.

#BannedBookSkyClub schedule: December 2025: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin January 2026: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston February 2026: Paradise by Toni Morrison March 2026: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Link to feed in replies. #BookSky Please join us.

This book was quite a departure from what I typically read! Based on Left Hand of Darkness I wanted to give it a shot. I thought the story did well to describe good friends, and wise use of one's powers (skills, in real life?). I shoulda read it 50 years ago!

On my Christmss 'to do' list. Read the first book of the New Reading Year 2026. Thankyou #BannedBookSkyClub For valuable questions this year. Much appreciated! A little #folklore with Zora Neale Hurston's #TheirEyesWereWatchingGod See below.

If you can write a whole book and/or put a sweater on a cat, you are quite talented.

Maybe I'm not reading the room or don't understand Bluesky's vision, but if Bluesky had private accounts, I think many of my friends would leave Facebook for good and move here.

I don't do New Year's resolutions, but if I did, it would be like "make the bed every day."

The cool thing about social media is when posts you read jog your memory. Like the post about snobby readers reminded me of some guy I worked with long ago who in response to me talking about some TV show I watched looked down his nose at me and said "I wouldn't know I only watch PBS."

I'm determined to finish reading The Stand by the end of the year. #BookSky

I don't care what anyone says. I like drinking out of Mason jars.

Every time our power goes out, a squirrel gets its wings.

Pasta is my comfort food.

The January 2026 #BannedBookSkyClub book is #TheirEyesWereWatchingGod by Zora Neale Hurston. I will start sharing talking points Thursday, January 15, 2026 (or possibly the night before depending on my schedule). Please join us! Link to feed in replies. #BookSky

Well I guess 60 minutes won't be getting a Peabody anytime soon.

I believe in high school students reading books in their entirety for class assignments, but I also think the teacher assigning The Plague by Albert Camus for my high school English class was a bit too much.

Happy Solstice! I'm looking forward to more daylight and more sunshine.

This holiday season don't forget to eat your vegetables. And pie. And also read a book. Two out of three (healthy endeavors) ain't bad.

I saw Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden speak at my university decades ago. I can't remember anything they said. It was a long time ago. But I remember details from the Elvis Presley concert I attended a few years before that.

I agree. I think of other novels with essentially the same journey, but without the focus on self reflection and growth - instead focused on the good vs evil and battles. The growth still happens but it isn't the focus and that's too bad, because that's what can stay with us throughout our lives.

Books are definitely not obsolete. #BookSky

A well placed semicolon could fix me.

There were always problems with authors citing articles they never read or even got their hands on, and with authors citing sources that never got published. Academic librarians know this because they are tasked with tracking them down. AI is taking an existing problem and magnifying it immensely.

'Tis the season to make long lunch plans with academic friends because the students are on winter break.

When we blame others, think we're better than others or simply fail to own our own choices and fail to acknowledge the impact of those choices, we're harming ourselves and others, and all of our futures. I wish for a world that cares about more than just their individual needs.

I love this book club! It's wonderful to read so many amazing books. I haven't read some of these authors before, and I love the process of discovering them. Looking forward to the 2026 reading...

I think the novel introduces a long meditation (that continues throughout the series) on the nature of power - over nature, over men, women, and children. Who holds power, and how is it used and abused? How can the downtrodden respond to power?