Refreshed ye olde feedback word cloud. 🥹

Just a regular reminder to please support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. Without us, they can't survive, and truthfully, without them, neither can we.

It's National Chocolate Mint Day! All things chocolate + mint. Marilyn Ricketts invented mint chocolate chip ice cream (as we know it today) in 1973 as a culinary student. She created the flavor, originally named "Mint Royale," for a competition to design a dessert for Princess Anne's wedding (UK).

“VERTIGO” (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes 🎬 Paramount Pictures 🎞 #FilmNoir

every single librarian on this site whether they work primarily with academics or the public or practitioners has had to patiently explain — while their expertise is questioned — that hardly anything is digitized, actually.

Going to use this as an opportunity to market my manuscript as romantasy. www.travelandleisure.com/rhode-island...

The mini Samantha Parkington doll on my desk and I are being very calm and rational about this news. www.americangirl.com/products/sam...

Still can't believe this is (a) real and (b) live action.

If you haven't had the chance to see The Librarians yet, catch Kim Snyder’s powerful documentary when it premieres February 9 on Independent Lens on PBS. https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/the-librarians/

Dancing Moka coffee pots at the Olympics opening ceremony! Italy, I love you

Unfortunately, I won't be able to participate in this event tomorrow, but I love this concept as an incessant snacker who makes food an integral part of every manuscript. Best of luck to my fellow foodie writers! These are the four food groups of my latest mystery:

A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."

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A Wrinkle in Time & Ella Enchanted

'Gaslight' comes from a play and movie of the same name in which a man attempts to trick his wife into believing that she is going insane. We promise we're telling the truth.

#OTD in 1934, Agatha Christie's 𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 was first published. Christie is the world’s best-selling fiction writer and, per UNESCO, is the most-translated author in history. #literature #litsky #booksky #HappyNewYear

I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

Anyone call bingo? ❄️ 📕 🎧 #Bookish #CheckOutYourLibrary #LibraryLove #LibraryLife #LibbyApp #Booksky

#SaveTheDate! TCM is airing a "Thin Man" marathon on New Year's Day. ALL SIX FILMS! ⏰ The films begin at 6aE or drop by anytime. We'll be there for its entirety! LET'S DO THIS!! #TCMParty ^JW

✨This book was once owned by Jane Austen! ✨ There are very few books that Jane Austen is known to have owned, making this one at the UL incredibly special. We're delighted to show it to you today, on her 250th birthday! #JaneAusten250

Rear Window (1954) 🎬🖤 Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

The Cozy Mystery Book Club's 2026 TBR #thecozymysterybookclub #cozymysteryclub

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

Brown University is a beautiful place, where people come to work and learn. I am filled with horror by news of this tragedy.

“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there

Happy Benoit Blanc whodunnit day to all who celebrate!

The most unbelievable part of Murder, She Wrote is not the preponderance of murders, it’s that a genre writer is forever treated by both publishing and the public as prestigious and culturally important

Finding "little grey cells" in the wild always make me laugh. Also, I 🖤 her Tommy & Tuppence, especially their frenetic dynamic in The Secret Adversary/Partners in Crime, and alluded to both those works in my current MS. "That’s the curious part about speaking the truth. No one does believe it."

Nobody tells you how important *sleep* is to writing a book.

The cozy genres have had an understandable boom in the last five years; people are bruised and traumatized, even if they don't fully admit it in words, and they want books they can sink into like feather duvets. This is great! It's also complicated, because when anything grows fast, confusion...

Quick reminder to support your local library!

"I read your last book, and I was bored out of my mind." "Well, that's your privilege." 100% using this Jessica Fletcher line from Murder, She Wrote when someone tells me at a con they didn't like a book 😆. Love this so much.

First poster for 'Spider-Noir' starring Nicolas Cage 🕸️ Releasing in 2026 on Prime Video (via omelete)

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

“THE BIG SLEEP” (1946) dir. Howard Hawks Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone 🎬 #Noirvember 🎞 Warner Bros.

I've been watching a marathon of Murder, She Wrote the last couple days, and now I'm ready to move to Maine.

I'm very tired and worn down but you know what will fix me? Talking about my novels.

Okay but here me out: A nighttime library in which the only lighting comes from lanterns, an emotional support library ghost leads you to the books you are looking to find, and midnight croissants are served during every full moon.

Today is the feast day of St. Catherine of Alexandria, the actual patron saint of librarians and knife sharpeners, and a certified badass.

Every library should have a secret musty back room with a weird local archive and an archivist who with a dry laugh (like crisp autumn leaves) who has been waiting patiently for the sudden need to arise for this specific cache of information

Sunday plans covered, thanks to your library! https://bit.ly/4oTUWMK #Bookish #Booksky #LibraryLove #LibraryJoy #CheckOutYourLibrary

Learn how you can support your library and save even more: 🔗 https://bit.ly/46jCbuk #Booksky #Bookish #LibraryLove #LibraryJoy #CheckOutYourLibrary

Don’t allow anyone to tell you that being a library ghost in the afterlife “doesn’t classify” as an appropriate long-term goal.

It’s called reframing. I’m not stress eating, I’m being efficient. #icecreamlover #lazyproductivity #catmood #relatablehumor #snacktime #fblifestyle

The world needs more sanctuaries in the form of libraries, bookstores, bakeries, museums, and art studios.

Introduce yourself with: One book One movie One tv show One album